Day 2059

One of my favourite developmental milestones is when they start to understand you enough to do what you tell them to.

Day 2058

Sometimes I wonder if we’re raising a little troll or an evil genius. She told me she dropped her kids (one doll, one stuffed raccoon) off at witch school so they would become mean witches and scare all of us, and then she laughed manically and left the room.

She’s getting alarmingly good at evil laughs.

Day 2057

Dear Canada,

Someday your Eurovision will come.

In the meantime though, Icelandic commercials make me happy, and obviously superior to whatever we’d get actually watching it on tv.

Day 2056

When your eldest child starts singing to her little brother about squishing his little farties out while bicycling his legs, you have probably succeeded as a parent.

Day 2055

It’s THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST!

Indoctrination time!

Day 2054

Lizard was pretty much at full bananas all night except when she was being read to. Charlie discovered the joys of throwing (dropping) a ball and then chasing after it. So now we just have to convince his sister not to take away the toy he’s really enjoying...

<deep breaths>

Day 2053

Chinchilla got pretty good at knowing where we didn’t want him crawling around. Unfortunately, he is very hard to convince that he’s not allowed to walk into those same places. As far as he’s concerned, everyone else is allowed to saunter into the kitchen, so he can too!

And he’s very pleased with himself for figuring out that loophole.