T has been two years old for three weeks now. In that time he’s settled into Toddlers group at nursery, enjoyed time with all of his grandparents and it had been a few weeks since his last ear infection, so it was about time for another one (more on that in a future post).

Graduating to ‘Toddlers’ was a bit of a change for T in the first few days. He now gets to push the doorbell button to be let in – pushing any button within reach to see what happens is one of his favourite things – only to be handed over to new but equally fantastic nursery staff, so back came the teary drop-offs for a few days.

In just those few short weeks, his language skills have developed rapidly. Being around bigger (and with T they are almost always bigger) children is proving to be exactly what he needs as he starts becoming more independent, adventurous and… stubborn. No idea where he gets that from! 

One of the fun things about listening to his new words and emotions is he grasps when something is wrong and when something is wonderful, and the situations that cause these two extremes to be true. However, all of this comes in tandem with his other developments and worldly explorations.

For example at bath time, which is tightly sandwiched between a post-nursery snack and pre-bedtime Clangers, he’s become acutely aware of what’s right, wrong, and wrong but I’ll do it anyway because it’s fun to find out. Recently our pink, knitted space-friends have been living an on-demand existence as it gets harder and harder to get T sorted by 6.10pm and Oneanddad’s been struggling to get home before 5.30pm. 

Depending on timing and T’s level of hunger/belligerence, T’s bedtime snack will be anything from a digestive biscuit to half of Oneanddad’s dinner plate, especially if that includes homemade potato wedges. We have recently discovered chocolate chip digestives. Ok, they’re a bit naughty but he has such a varied and home-cooked diet at nursery that we are more than happy to hand one over. 

So, cue bath time, bath running, T, mid-biscuit, excitedly trying to pull his trousers down, Oneanddad pulling out some post-bath essentials from his room. “Oh no!” says Toddler T. Oh god, what now?! Oneanddad walks in to see T peering into the bath, fingers outstretched and again “Oh no!” 

If you’ve ever been tempted to dunk a Sainsbury’s chocolate chip digestive biscuit in your tea, don’t! It turns out it disintegrates on impact without a single hand-rescuable lump to fish out before too much devastation is caused. 

Mummy walks in and immediately asks, horrified, “What’s that?!”, as Oneanddad ponders what chance there is of getting away with using the freshly-run bath, as the water turns a biscuity shade of brown! 

Nope. No can do. So down it goes. Well run another one and give the Clangers a night off.