Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

The sheer joy of the 2-year-old and his toilet training. I never remember it being this much fun before. A few disasters in the first 3 or 4 weeks but the fun the minute he shouts "Leithreas!" and I put on the siren and he giggles and laughs his way as we run through the house to the toilet.

Last night he actually stopped in the hallway when he saw his bike (the cycling of which is another big, very recent achievement for him) and insisted he was going to cycle his bike to the toilet for the first time. So he did! Cycling through the house and arriving in style (I was the garda clearing the, eh, "roads" and stopping the, eh, "traffic" on the way through the house), insisting that he gets off the bike on his own and pulls himself on to the toilet on his own. Big sighs, followed by a deadly serious quantitative and qualitative analysis at the end of, well, everything.

And the love - he's just exuding it. He just loves hugs and climbing on to the settee and hugging whoever is there and telling them how much he loves them, usually verbatim as 'love you so much - whole wide world' followed by hand movements in the shape of a globe! Such a thoroughly lovely time in life right now. Long may it continue.