Day 3020

 Eat my shorts, 2020.

Day 3019

For a weird time, google New Year’s Eve for your city. It’s going to be a strange one to mark: everyone is so eager to leave 2020 behind, but also incapable of celebrating the normal way.

Day 3018

 Goddamn alarm clocks.

Day 3017

 Baking holiday over, regular baking begins...

Day 3016

 Banana was running around playing with her big sister today. And maybe said her name. And also started saying uh oh. And also realized pretending to chomp things gets laughs.

As usual with this kid’s development, we’re in trouble.

Day 3015

Our boy has decided his new Spider-Man toy and his old Kristoff toy are his babies. He’s been nursing them and putting them to bed and this morning when I went on to wake them he was squatting beside his bed so he could birth Spider-Man.

In some ways I will be relieved when they get back to fighting crime...

Day 3014

 Every now and again you luck into a perfect photo of your kid. Today we got two. And I haven’t checked the actual camera yet...

Day 3013

 Roasted a whole turkey for the first time, and a bunch of vegetables... didn’t bake a single thing.

Day 3012

Every once in a while you get a reminder of how very very weird the world is right now. Like.... empty mall parking lots.

Day 3011

 We’ve been talking about making fruitcake for... I don’t know, a decade? Finally accomplished. Probably this means we are officially married now.

Day 3010

 It’s hard to be mad at the baby for putting her bowl on her head when she starts making a little gangster sneer underneath it.

Day 3009

 Vacation time = baking rampage

Day 3008

You learn early about the dangers of setting a precedent when you’re a parent. And yet here we are, every walk is now a scavenger hunt.

Day 3007

 It turns out Banana has a nearly bottomless appetite for cookies. I suspect Christmas is going to be a very frustrating time for her. she’s really not keen on the word ‘no’, and I don’t think she’ll take it well when we combine it with cookies.

Day 3006

 Discovered it is possible to bathe Banana without her yelling the entire time... apparently she can smile after you get her wet!

Day 3005

 New job: making necktube allsorts so the children have something else to be indecisive about.

Day 3004

 What do you do when your skeleton gets dirty? Move on to your next skeleton, apparently.

Day 3003

 This baby seems to be more adept at quiet shenanigans than the other two, and it seems that our internal alarms are insufficiently sensitive.

Day 3002

 Achievement unlocked: decorated the Christmas tree with three kids without breaking anything or starting a civil war.

Day 3001

 No matter how many times we try to correct him, our boy insists that they are called instruction workers.

Day 3000

 I couldn’t ask for a better partner. Love you!

Day 2999

 Setting dangerous precedents with the dog all over the place. He now thinks he’s entitled to a chair beside me during work hours and a spot beside my hip to sleep at night.

Day 2998

 And then we drove across the city, expedition-style, sat in the car and WE GOT A TREE.

Thereby saving Christmas!

For now.

Day 2997

Banana hugs people when they’re sad... or to convince them to do something nice for her. She is also working on the bit where she dives into bed and pretends like she’s been falling asleep the whole time.

Day 2996

 Turns out you don’t get pictures of a gap-toothed smile if your kid grows shark teeth...

Day 2995

 Our tiny little baby is six. How? 

But also she read her first chapter book today and how is she not eight or ten or whenever normal children start reading chapter books?!

Their growing up sure sneaks up on you.

Day 2994

 Put our five year old to bed for the last time...

Day 2993

When you realize your daughter thinks counterclockwise must somehow have something to do with (kitchen) counters because she hasn’t heard the word in another context...

Day 2992

Every now and again, Chinchilla bestows upon us near-perfect gifts, like an invitation to snuggle while he performs a dramatic reading of The Amazing Spider-Man.

Day 2991

 “Do you have a minute?”

And I laughed and laughed...