It appears Tage has quite a mood. It also appears that when things don’t go his way he happily displays it no matter where we are, at home, at nursery, shop, baggage reclaim at the airport… We understand this is completely normal for his age but as first time parents it is still a bit of a shock to the system. We have now become experts at the process:
Generally it starts with a disgruntled look on his face and then spreads with the speed of light down to his two little feet and the stamping commences. A lot of stamping. If his attention has not been diverted by now the whole of Tage’s body gets involved and with arms flailing, feet stamping, face scrunching and voice hitting some high notes it is all quite spectacular. It is often quite hard to keep a straight face and not laugh but it is very sweet, well, most of the time at least.
When these angry spells started in real force at a regular basis about a month ago we started to think we got the wrong child home with us from the UK. We looked closely but it did appear to be our Tage. Just an angrier version. We have, however, worked up a strategy of defence against these attacks. The key is distraction, distraction, distraction. Tage has therefore become much more involved in the general routine of things at home.
He is now very handy at helping with sorting the recycling. He washes up.
He helps with the cooking. Here working on a special dish of yesterday’s gnocchi mixed with unpeeled onion (just in case it didn’t quite work I cooked something else).
And if all else fails there is always dancing!
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