Day 2716

Motherhood involves a lot more fielding demands for hugs while sitting on the toilet than I expected.

Day 2715

When your baby discovers giving kisses and you’re the happiest soggy mess ever...

Day 2714

When your kid is staring into the middle distance doing something weird because it feels interesting... and that something is repeatedly licking Beige Bear’s head...

Day 2713

If you need a storyteller with tremendous enthusiasm, get yourself a Chinchilla. He has enough hand gestures for three.

Day 2712

You make a baby jail and suddenly it’s the most exciting place for the big kids to hang out.

We might be sending the wrong message about incarceration.

Day 2711

Chinchilla has decided that when he grows up, he wants to be an adult.

Also a doctor.

Also Santa.

Day 2710

A five year old striving to be helpful is a wonderful thing.

Day 2709

Chinchilla teaches his little sister the facts of life: alligators are not your favourite buddies; mommy and daddy are.

Day 2708

If you’re bored, I recommend asking Lizard about history and Chinchilla about... almost anything. But especially bad guys, monsters, and his doctor’s office.

Day 2707

I forget until I show her off that our happiest, most chill baby is also our most serious baby.

Day 2706

In hindsight, it was probably a mistake to tell Chinchilla that nipples on boys are for decoration.

Hopefully he doesn’t tell anyone else we decorated his nipples for Christmas.

Day 2705

Heaven is freshly baked bread.

Day 2704

More than five years in, and I still don’t know how to handle those periodic and sudden realizations that your little people are getting big.

Day 2703

Chinchilla has now decided that he’d like to grow up to be Santa.

Day 2702

It’s funny decades later realizing that your mom must have dreaded those family shopping trips as much as you did.

Day 2701

Valentine’s Day cures children of their grumpiness and adults of their peace. Unless you solemnly pledge to ignore it, in which case it can be quite delightful.

Love you, Husband!

Day 2700

First attempt at bread making: extremely frustrating during the actual baking; extremely satisfying during the eating.

Day 2699

One of the cardinal rules of parenting: never mention aloud that your baby has finally started doing ____.

Babies sense weakness and parents getting their hopes up.

One of their favourite activities (after pooping everywhere) is quashing hopes.

Day 2698

Tiny humans using big words never ceases to amuse me.

Day 2697

One of my favourite things about introducing a baby to solid foods is all of the ridiculously aggrieved faces they make when you give them something new... and then they decide they love it.

Day 2696

Do tomboys even carry girly girl genes?

Day 2695

It’s beginning to feel like somebody decided that it is mandatory for at least one family member to be sick at all times.

That is fake news.

Don’t these children know wellness is trendy?!

Day 2694

When you’re raising the tiniest, sweetest little toothless T-Rex with a big head and little arms...

Day 2693

My daughter has had her first proposal. This is the second boy she has contemplated marrying.

Either I blocked all memories of such things out, or my daughter is embarking on a very different girlhood than I experienced...

Day 2692

When you segregate your children and only have to get one of them ready for bed at once it’s so easy, it’s practically like a vacation. Plus, dedicated snuggle time.

Day 2691

When you’re relieved to merely have bronchitis...

Day 2690

Monsters and pneumonia are not allowed in my house.

Day 2689

Chinchilla is a sometimes plane; I can sometimes laugh without coughing.

One of us is probably having more fun than the other.

Day 2688

It’s very helpful having a kid who is obsessed with something that is fairly easy to draw, like pumpkins.

Also having a baby who is extremely cheerful, like Banana.