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I noticed this morning as I took Little Miss for swimming lessons that there was a disturbing trend amongst the fathers that were there, namely that I think most of us hadn’t taken our shirts of in public in a long long time (and it had been even longer since we had been swimming).
Sure there [...]
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 [...]
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Well we are off for another family vacation in the morning. Not really a vacation as a flying visit to meet my niece for the first time.
Little Miss is mighty excited by it all - quite the seasoned traveller that she is. Usurper could not care less - but why would she, she takes the [...]
Let’s just pause and take a breath and look at what has happened in the last few days:
Wife has returned to work two days a week. This has probably been the hardest thing that she has done since childbirth itself. It will be a real effort for all of us to survive these next few [...]
For once I thought I would post some things that make me laugh about the 17 month old Usurper. I just decided to do this because after a week of throwing up each day she finally seems to be getting back to her usual self.
1. How she refuses to drink out of sippee cups or [...]
For once I thought I would post some things that make me laugh about the 17 month old Usurper. I just decided to do this because after a week of throwing up each day she finally seems to be getting back to her usual self.
1. How she refuses to drink out of sippee cups or straw cups or anything like that, but a normal open cup like her big sister. In fact the bigger the cup the better, to the point where when she is drinking out of them that you can’t see her face. Also hilarious is the red rim mark she gets across her forehead from tipping it all the way up to get the last little bit out.
2. Her determination to prove her use to the herd. Hence the way she will bring you your ‘Shooossssss’ (shoes) no matter what time of the day or night it is. And believe me you better be grateful and pretend to put them on or there is hell to pay.
3. The rapidly developing sense of humour, which includes your first ‘gags’ such as pretending to drink the bath water because you know Wife will get mad when you are really just tipping it down the front.
4. The way she laughs without knowing why. It is just enough for her to see the rest of the family laugh for her to tip her head back and join right in.
5. The way you still love me unconditionally - as if I am the bestest Dad in the whole world - I hope you don’t learn the truth for a while yet!
