As a child I had a hero, Lisa Curry Kenny. She was an Olympic swimmer and I was sure that that was what I was going to be when I grew up. Well Lisa ended up as the face of Uncle Toby’s muesli bars and I never quite made it to that Olympic pool. Now it seems as if Wrigglebot is already putting some people/ characters on hero status and as a parent it is beginning to make me quite concerned.

His current hero is the very hungry caterpillar (you know in that book where he eats through all that food and eventually turns into a butterfly). The book is his favourite and he will pore over it at length, examining each page and all the food. If I pick up the book he starts kicking his legs and giggling in anticipation. We wondered for a while why this book had captured his attention so and then we figured it out, it is all about a caterpillar eating a lot of food and getting fat. It is as if Wrigglebot has decided to emulate his hero the caterpillar and so he eats and eats and eats and waits for the day when he will turn into a beautiful butterfly and be able to fly because every boy wants to be able to fly and the idea that you  can eat to gain flight status is simply a dream come true to my little fat Wrigglebot.

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