It has been so long since I posted that I don’t know where to begin, so here are some thoughts in no particular order:
The more placid a young child is the more extreme the tantrums they will have in the terrible twos. Usurper started having tantrums over Easter in a major way. They are the type of tantrums that end up on Youtube being laughed at by 1000’s of people everywhere. They involve screaming, throwing oneself to the ground, belowing, sobbing, screaming, hitting and kicking.

According to Wife I am wrong and they are NOT ‘absolutely hilarious’.

It is pure coincidence of course that the tantrums started on the same day that chocolate was discovered!

In other news the 4 year old is going through a major dress up in frilly princess things and dance around a lot. She spends a lot of time studying various ballet dance moves and trying to replicate them A dancer she is not. Of course she may also be hindered by her mashed up approach to super heroes. She is often “spiderman fairy” - which is certainly a super hero for the 21st century.

Speaking of pretty dresses - usurper is obsessed with them. Every night as I come home I am met by a twirling 2 year old dressed like a grotty Holly Hobby who is twirling furiously while chanting “pretty dress! pretty dress!” like some kind of female chucky doll.

The other big thing that is happening is the questions of the eldest are getting harder and harder to answer, things like:
“Is the Easter bunny real or just pretend real” - which wins in the cute stakes.

In the not so cute stakes her best friend’s parents just lost a baby due to medical issues during pregnancy. Little Miss was aware of the fact she was pregnant, and we knew that her little friend would be well aware of the drama enveloping her parents. So the upshot of all that is we had to explain that the baby in x’s tummy had a special sickness and died. So we were handling all the questions about being sick, and dieing etc etc. Then we got that really threw us was “What did they do with the baby?” - how the hell do you answer that one?

Life is getting more complex all the time - let the good times roll