Hurry Home Mummy!

It seems that BB fancies his chances in the argument stakes. Whilst he has mostly been an all round good egg whilst stuck with dad all week, it seems that every day at one point on another he shows his stubborn streak (the one he obviously gets from his mother).

Recent conversations have gone along the lines of "BB, please do this or that....." only for him to reply "No Daddy, I won't! You should let people do what they want to do." The cheeky wee shite even threatened not to eat his snack yesterday after being dissatisfied with chicken being offered for dinner. "I will not eat my snack if you make chicken for dinner" he declared......clearly he has much to learn in the art of striking a deal. For the record, he ate both the snack and the chicken.....and no children were harmed in the scoffing of these meals!

So far, the only reason I appear to be winning our little argument is by virtue of the fact I am even more stubborn coupled with the fact that I have taken away bedtime stories more than once this week. We seem to be making progress, but I think secretly we'd both rather have mum home as it's getting somewhat tiresome for both of us.

Speaking of storytelling, LL had me all to himself this afternoon whilst BB went to one of his friends house for lunch. He revelled in the one to one attention and seems to be developing his brother's appetite for books as we sat on the sofa and read one after the other for half an hour or so.

Mum is stuck in a foggy North Sea yet again - what are the odds?? In the last 7 years I have not done an additional night offshore because of weather, yet she has got stuck twice in the last few months.