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Personal Asthetic Preference…

At two years and three months to the day, Scarlett has reached possibly her more important developmental milestone to date, personal aesthetic preference. It’s been brewing for a while, a skirt she wants to wear here, at hat she’d like to wear indoors there, but today was different, and I can’t say that Diana hasn’t warned me… It starts with the clothes I chose to buy Scarlett, gender ambiguous and neutral in colour… Often when I’m in the US or India I buy some bits and pieces for Scarlett, this last trip I bought a few, but all from Gap and pretty much all brown! I like brown, it’s cool, not quite the new black (cause black is the new black you know) but good and neutral and flexible. Well, Scarlett’s not having any of it… When I presented the above hoodie to her, selling her on the neutral colour palate by showing her that the jumper I chose to wear today was also chocolate brown, she said:

“I don’t like it Daddy, I don’t like brown, I like pink. I will not wear brown daddy, ALRIGHT?” (actually, she says something that looks more like “allrIIIIIIIIIIIIght?”)

Well, I think I’ll be returning the hoodie, or leave it in the cupboard in the hope that we have a boy at some point… cause everybody knows that boys aren’t fussy about clothes, right? I mean, ALRIIIGHT??

Apologies for the lack of updates to the blog, things have been crazy. Diana is much better and I am back in my usual seat, somewhere between Singapore and Bombay.

The hardest 15 minutes.

The rest of us were left behind at Sydney Ultrasound while Diana was rushed to the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, lights flashing and sirens blaring, or so I thought, it was all a bit of a blur. She saw it through with incredible strength while I quietly crumbled, pulling the girls together to follow behind like we were in a movie, what little eye contact I did make with the other people in the waiting room resulted a mutual discomfort, mine substantially more than theirs I suspect. It was more than a little bit distressing to leave the Ultrasound office to find the Ambulance still on Kent street, lights flashing but no movie sound effects. I trotted on by, girls in tow, those really were hard yards.

We’ve gone dark on updating our blog over the past week or so since we have been entirely consumed by moving house… I expect that we will still be unpacking in a month given the work we’ve had to put in so far, and in the meantime, we’ll be living like suburban nomads…

Here’s a little Gypsie I found earlier… she dresses herself you know!