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It is official, I am finally willing to call it - I am a competent father. Hooray for me. I am pretty sure I can look after the kids without either of them being in either grave physical, emotional or developmental danger.
Being frank they have probably never been at much risk of any of these [...]
I have a feeling we are in for our first Christmas disappointment for Little Miss. You see after months of not specifying anything specific as a desire for Xmas she has with 2 weeks to go decided that there are indeed certain things she wants:
To whit:
1. A telescope - I think she wants one like [...]
As Wife has already blogged we had a little bit of drama here on Friday night when Little Miss Swallowed a coin - she has since informed us and all and sundry that she was pretending to be a money box. A line she delivers with a deadpan face, and one that still makes me [...]
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Well I have survived the family holiday. Sure there were times it threatened to swallow me whole and spit me out like so much refuse. Seven nights - more if you include the time spent at my parents place - and I have returned with no scares (visible to the naked eye that is).
But rather [...]
Apparently I am a ‘Naughty Man; - well at least that is what Little Miss tells me in no uncertain terms whenever I do the wrong thing or have the audacity to tell her ‘No’ or that she is in trouble.
It’s not that she calls me it so much, it is the venom with which [...]
Apparently I am a ‘Naughty Man; - well at least that is what Little Miss tells me in no uncertain terms whenever I do the wrong thing or have the audacity to tell her ‘No’ or that she is in trouble.
It’s not that she calls me it so much, it is the venom with which she exclaims it that can be somewhat off putting. Nah, not really, it’s all I can do to not laugh out loud whenever she does it. She just soooooo reminds me of Wife when she is giving me one of her dressing downs.
She enunciates each sentence so exactly, and each exclamation is worded in such a way that it is basically issued as a challenge to me just daring me to disagree with her assessment of the situation and my behaviour.
Even the body language is remarkably similar, the half crouch (ready to attack I am sure), the sharp motion of the finger or hand every time a supposed point is made.
LOL, just thinking about it cracks me up - I know I should take it more seriously. But just the look of serious earnestness on her little face is hilarious.
Of course I am in trouble now having pointed this out. I get in trouble when I mention such things to Wife about the similarities in this area. So I guess I will be sleeping with one eye open after she reads this (For my own good! - sorry, bit of an in joke that one).
Now if I really wanted to get in trouble I would mention just how funny / frightening it is when Wife and Little Miss are having a heated discussion about something. It’s like in a video game when you come up against your mirrow image opponent - they know all your moves, all your tricks and all your weaknesses. They are therefore very worthy opponents.
But I won’t mention that - that would be going too far.
