See previous lists here.
- You still wake sometimes and scream for a while before you will calm down enough to go back to sleep. Now you might only scream for 15 minutes whereas there was a time you could scream for up to an hour so that is an improvement.
- I don’t get to spend enough time with you alone. When I am with you I almost always have your baby brother with us too and he claims most of my attention.
- You are quite introverted and while we are very close you keep many things to yourself. There are some things I am missing out on with you and it worries me.
- I yell at you too much and as if that is not bad enough you now copy me and yell at other people too much too.
- You chose to stop going to horse riding lessons. I told you that I would love you just as much even if you didn’t want to learn horse riding.. and I might have been lying.
- Your loyalty to people; I think it might make you susceptible to getting hurt in the future.
- All the many, many times that you come and jump on the bed while I am trying to get Cormac to sleep.
- Brushing your hair and fighting with you about brushing your hair.
- Things you used to eat which you no longer will and which have severely limited our lunchbox options for you include: avocado, fish and cheese (unless melted on a pizza or feta, why?).
- Now that Cormac can walk some of his gloss has worn off and you spend a lot of time getting cross with him and pushing him over.
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Is Lauca going to get to start publishing some of these posts too? “Things I enjoy most and least with my parents now that I am 5″ would make for an interesting complementary perspective.
I love reading these lists you write. Your children come to life, they seem so lovable and so loved, and it is incredibly reassuring to hear about how complex and special and ridiculous other kids can be, too.