Day 1407

My kid now has enough hair that I can turn her into a triceratops.

Also, she can play adjacent to another kid with her toys without being a total jerkwad! Parenting success!

Day 1406

Today we discovered that our most effective tool for getting yardwork done is the sandbox.

Day 1405

Deciding to cut the baby off and actually cutting the baby off are two very different propositions.

Day 1404

How to keep your kid mostly out of trouble at the grocery store: find a tiny shopping cart for her to push around. 

You'll have to ignore the unrelentingly joyous screeching.

Day 1403

Apparently it is possible to snuggle and read with the baby in the evening too. 

Snuggling: not just for mornings anymore!

Day 1402

I actually left the house without the baby this evening, and went beyond the reach of the baby monitor, for one of the first times since she was born. This is either a sign of the apocalypse, or a sign I have no social life.

Day 1401

The Lizard is becoming self-sufficient. She can pick raspberries that are more or less ripe and open the animal crackers.

Heaven help us when the raspberry thicket stops producing this fall.

Day 1400

Weekends become much more precious when you have tiny kiddos you get to spend time with.

Day 1399

The Lizard shared her toys, the dog wasn't a giant flaming butthole, and the house was more or less clean. Friend hosting success!

Day 1398

It's fun when your kid gets older and can do all sorts of new and interesting things. It's less fun when the kid gets older and becomes *that* kid at the grocery store...

Day 1397

Nineteen and a half months later - lunch date! Do we win a prize?

Day 1396

Nommy mommy, nighty-night.

Day 1395

Blueberries with dinner = bath time for Lizard!

But also.... She can spoon pea(s) into her mouth!!

Day 1394

In which the baby suddenly revealed her intense love for The Proclaimers.

Day 1393

That thing where you meet friends for brunch, and you're going to the table "with all of the babies".

Day 1392

I hate when she's sick, but boy do I ever love the extra snuggles.

Day 1391

If you feel like your kid gets all the attention from people, take the baby and the dog to the vet. People will helpfully tell you how cute your dog is for a change.

Day 1390

It's baby-washing day! 

Also, our kid hasn't had this many head bonks in a week since she first learned to stand up by herself.

Day 1389

It is weird being a person with after hours job responsibilities.

Day 1388

Picture books are a go. It's a whole new world, kid.

Day 1387

That thing where you pick up your kid at daycare and the teachers tell you how great and happy your kid is, and then you go home and your kid gets progressively more and more nuts....

Some days I could use a little more of that delightful daycare kid in the evenings...

Day 1386

The ups and downs of parenting is a bit of an adjustment for someone who is accustomed to a fairly stable emotional state.

Day 1385

"I love you, Lizzy"

"-uv 'oo!"

<heart splodes>

Day 1384

How to drive daycare workers slowly nuts: on some days, dress your girl in "boy" clothes. On other days, dress your kid in vaguely feminine clothes. And then randomly in the middle, dress your kid in a pink ruffled watermelon dress with matching pink ruffled hat.

Collect coos.

Put your kid in boy clothes the next day.

Repeat.

...it doesn't always have to be watermelons.

Day 1383

Lesson 58,262 of Parenting: When introducing your child to slides, don't do it when they are tired and hungry and when they cried all the way home.

Day 1382

Some days you just gotta put your kid in her watermelon dress to entertain yourself before bedtime.

Day 1381

Having a 19 month old means spending a lot of time with your heart swelling with pride.

Day 1380

Apparently even a super exhausted overtired baby can nonchalantly use new words.

Day 1379

Home at last. The Lizard was violently excited to see the puppy. Literally. 

Day 1378

Today we learned that if the Lizard is tired enough, she turns into an extrovert.

Day 1377

It's weird going to the lake and putting the Lizard in a splash pool instead of taking her to the lake. 

Also, introducing her to honourary family. Curiously, she did not seem to have any difficulty telling me apart from my honourary twin...