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One of the things I find most endearing about Little Miss is the complete honesty in what she says. Obviously she does lie, or more accurately she doesn’t answer a question, if you ask her why Usurper is crying she will say something like “welllll………… my shoe was a bit wobbly….” a complete non sequitor […]
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Wife has been sick for the last little while and the baby Usurper has also been a bit crook (and has also been getting the odd new tooth), so to try and give them a bit of a break I spent a fair chunk of today out and about at a market and then some […]
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I am sure that after today Wife and I will be held up to future generations as an example of bad parents. Not for anything hideous mind you, no actual physical or emotional abuse of our Little Miss or Usurper (well no more than is standard in a modern Western family anyway). It is more […]
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I have just discovered something funnier than toddler tantrums - 10month old baby tantrums! They are just the most adorable things.
In the last couple of days our baby Usurper has started to have the odd full blown tantrum. I don’t mean like the don’t leave me in this cot to sleep tantrum, but a real […]
Our Little Miss has developed the strangest phobia I have yet come across. Currently she is living in terror that the toilet in going to run out of water.
Each time she is going to the toilet she needs to be reassured that it does indeed have water in it, hasn’t run dry and nor will […]
Our Little Miss has developed the strangest phobia I have yet come across. Currently she is living in terror that the toilet in going to run out of water.
Each time she is going to the toilet she needs to be reassured that it does indeed have water in it, hasn’t run dry and nor will it. Which is kind of amusing given that one of her main fears when transitioning from a potty to the toilet was the fact that there was water in the toilet - so we have gone a full 180.
It is now to the point where you have to go with her and lift the lid to check that the water level is acceptable.
It stems from our recent plane trip. Little Miss decided that she needed to go to the toilet mid air so we dutifully marched up to the front of the plane, waited our turn and entered. I will never forget the look of horror and confusion that crossed her face when she noticed that plane toilets have no water in them. Needless to say we beat a hasty retreat back to our seat and ever since then the conundrum of the waterless toilet has lead to an ongoing fear that our own toilet is about to run dry, and that would be a sure sign that civilization is coming to an end…
In other water related news, our goldfish has died - not that I am particularly concerned with that, let’s be honest they only cost $1.95 each or something.
But I want all the parents to spot what may be wrong in this sentence, when uttered to a highly sensitive and highly strung 3 year old. ‘Fish has died, it’s like he’s gone to sleep, but he won’t ever wake up’ - I am willing to be even some of the none parents can spot where things have gone wrong……
