Day 1740

New high priority goal: find new ways to make Chinchilla giggle.

Day 1739

The precocious starts early.

Lizard was cuddling with her brother before bed and said to him: "This is my beautiful bandaid. Do you see? I got it when I was my age."

Day 1738

Apparently you just have to get your baby super overtired to make them giggle.

Day 1737

Parenthood has not made me any more kindly disposed towards socks.

Day 1736

Sleep training the second kid: all the sadness and guilt of the first time around, now with the anxiety you're going to screw up the first kid's sleep with all the crying.

Day 1735

Lizard watched her first movie today, and successfully navigated the scary bits.

Day 1734

Some days your kid has good reason to yell at the dog. And some days your kid inexplicably yells at the dog not to be an armadillo.

Day 1733

Progress! Started the evening with some show and tell, but still too shy to sing in front of other people.

Day 1732

If your kid wants to cuddle, drop everything and cuddle.it can only make your day better.

Day 1731

Nothing like having your toddler try to send you for a timeout.

Also nothing like the feeling of having to move your baby to a bigger bed.

Day 1730

TIL belches are terrifying and can make a baby almost inconsolable.

Day 1729

Dear Chinchilla,

I'm pretty sure it's against the rules for babies to get worse at sleeping as they get older.

Love,

Your Mother

Day 1728

One of the best things in the world: when your kid reaches up to hold your hand. Of their own volition. On purpose.

Day 1727

Things that are fun: roaring at it until your kid doesn't find their room scary anymore.

Day 1726

"I like my brother. He is so sweet."

Day 1725

Power outages are much more fun when a) there is a storm to watch and b) you don't have babies to put to bed.

Day 1724

Good thing I made Chinchilla's baby blanket so big - apparently it needs to have room for two kids to have tummy time.

Day 1723

Lizard has had her first real haircut. Now I know why my mom used to have us watch a movie when she cut our hair...

The good news is, it's probably more or less straight for the most part.

Day 1722

Sometimes you just have to lead a toddler to a big bucket of dirt.

Day 1721

We did some work getting ready to plant the vegetable garden (and planted some tomatoes). Lizard has now discovered playing in dirt.

I see a lot more baths in our future...

Day 1720

Some days, you get to giggle all day long with your two year old.

Day 1719

Today Lizard told us she was "too busy" to come to the table for dinner.

Day 1718

Sometimes even Mommys get hugs.

Day 1717

Keeping Lizard up the teeniest bit past bedtime is like giving a mouse a cookie.

Day 1716

My tiny, giant girl is two and a half!

The older she gets, the more apparent it is that if you don't appreciate absurdism, parenthood may not be for you.

Day 1715

The babies have the same modus operandi: be charming delights when we try being social out in the world, and then go frigging apeshit once we're home.

Day 1714

Baby's first out of town trip = success.

Also, when we take our daughter places people like her because she's adorable and polite. And I just hope she gets over her shyness quickly so people can like her because she's a hilarious weirdo with a huge vocabulary.

Day 1713

If you yoga with a toddler, be prepared for:
Hair-pulling
Chest-sitting
Pushing
Demands to switch yoga mats
Having your mat rolled up while you're using it
Unconventional attire
Lots of downward dog
Reminders to take big breaths
Requests for more yoga
Watching them lead your spouse through poses

Winning.

Day 1712

If you want to make sure your kid gets enough exercise, get a house with a circle in the floor plan.