I just have to face it – Jessica is a bully. Shame, shame, shame. I am hoping this is just a phase, something to do with turning 2 on the weekend, maybe a chance for her to show some dominance. She picks on Meg so bad. Meg is tall and thin, 3 and a half yrs old and 14.6kg. Jess is nearly 2, short and solid (like a sack of spuds) and 15kgs. Jess can pack a punch and a shove like any 4 yr old boy and it has me worried as to what she is like at daycare when I am not there.

Poor Meggie is black and blue from the constant whack and smack that Jess gives her. I’ve tried all sorts of stuff to make her stop the attacks, but now I am at the point where I tell Meg or Holly to push her back in the hope that Jess will get the message that this is not nice. I’m generally not into discipline in this manner, but I have tried everything else. Any thoughts out there?? I’m at my wits end.

2 more days till the house is ours. I spent some time there today with the carpet guy who measured up for new floors, and Graham my BIL who is doing some demoliton and painting. There is one set of steps up to the lounge room that is quite narrow so we thought we could knock out a cupboard and widen the steps. This would have been quite a task but then Graham discovered that the cupboard was actaully built over the original steps – the owners had made them narrower in order to put a door in and save some heating. None of that for me – open plan in the way to go baby!!!

Got a cake in the oven so better dash. Caio.