Day 3051

That feeling when you finally succeed in getting your kid to try out the bigger black boots (rather than the purple ones that are getting too small), and she immediately announces they make her jump higher and run faster.... and then you break the boots in with an adventure. BOOM! Parenting win.

Day 3050

 And then Perfect Dark happened, and everything was good.

Day 3049

 Banana might hate baths (loudly and with great vehemence), but at least she likes the after bath routine. If she didn’t, she might hold a grudge and I’m not sure I’m ready to see this kid with a grudge.

Day 3048

 If Banana’s going to insist on wearing boots and a coat after she comes home, we might as well put her in the cutest little Christmas gnome coat we can find...

Day 3047

 Banana seems to be very adept at being juuuust awake enough to arrange all her stuffies for nocturnal snuggling.

Day 3046

 We’ve figured out to avoid the trap with houses, but someday a kid is going to ask to go to an animal shelter “just to look” at the animals and we’ll decide there’s no harm in that.

Day 3045

 Do you bite your thumb at me, ‘21?

Day 3044

 Banana might have a rough time as a book destroyer in a house full of bibliophiles...

Day 3043

 Eighteen months. Still crazy, still adorable, still very sweet... also very opinionated and barely even a baby anymore.

Day 3042

The parenting site tried to warn me it was coming, but I was still unprepared for my last baby not being a baby anymore.

Day 3041

 On his last day before he goes back to daycare, our boy finally set up his office to his satisfaction. His abacus is his computer, a small helicopter is his mouse, and as he says his “headphones suspiciously look like a dragon”.

Day 3040

 You take the staples out of the dog and suddenly he thinks he can leap over small buildings in a single bound...

Day 3039

 I don’t think we will be getting our boy what he wants for his assessment, as I don’t agree that he should have an axe so he can axe eagles. It remains unclear what eagles have done to wrong him...

Day 3038

 And then winter started.

Day 3037

 I’m beginning to suspect we are going to regret deciding to bunk the agent of chaos and the never-nap together.

Day 3036

It might be a little early to encourage her to specialize, but Lizard can just make bird art from now on, right?

Day 3035

 With the first kid you could make silly suggestions about what she should have for breakfast and she’d giggle, stop being distracted, and tell you what she wanted.

With the boy... yes, he does want fried monkeys for breakfast, so let’s put on our boots and go pick some monkeys out of the trees...

Day 3034

2021 has not been doing a great job of putting its best foot forward.

Day 3033

All praise daycare workers, who must have wells of patience much much deeper than mine.

Day 3032

 Welp. Not winning any parenting awards today.

Day 3031

 The inevitable phone call couldn’t have fucked off until next week?

Day 3030

 That feeling when your six year old asks if she can keep a notebook and pencil in her room so she can do math and draw things... and then asks if she can bring her loom to her room so she can knit when she wakes up...

Day 3029

 Knitting loom kit: I hope this doesn’t awaken something in all of us....

Day 3028

 I would clearly make a terrible princess if the pea test is involved.

Day 3027

Convincing our boy not to do any jumping or jumping for the next many months is going to be a looooong uphill battle.

Day 3026

 Missing my sweet hot water bottle and doomscrolling.

Day 3025

 Goodnight sweet puppy with no robot parts.

Day 3024

We’re getting into the good homework: read books.

Day 3023

 And now we spend the next six months finding pine needles everywhere.

Day 3022

 Board game days are good days.

Day 3021

 Well... we managed one whole day before the dread started intensifying.