We are leaving in 6 hours time to go to Canada. This means the blog will not be updated for quite some time. I may have a chance once we get to Edmonton at the end of the month, but not likely from Vancouver, nor later from Toronto.
Please don’t burgle my home in my absence. [...]
Today was D’s birthday.
Before he got up, the Kidlet and I practiced saying “Happy Birthday, Daddy!” It came out, “Da, Daddy!” Not bad, really.
Then he got up. And she said, “No, no, no, Daddy!” What a rotten Kidlet!!!
Of course, it was easy to forgive her when she started putting on little performances, trying on various [...]
Mine grew a penis when she was supposed to be a girl. Now the dinosaur is a boy. Suddenly, I need to consider boys names and need clothes that are not ruffley and lacy.
The Kidlet is clumsy. This is a fact we have to live with. She’s had bumps and bruises, an ER visit, blood, scrapes, tumbles, and black eyes. She trips over her own feet several times a day, and every so often the effect is more unpleasant than other times. Today, she [...]
Well, now she loves them!
This photo was intended to show that we really do feed her healthy things. She’s stuffing grapes into her face at top speed. Unfortunately, top speed is why we have a photo of her hand over her mouth rather than with a grape in it, en route to her mouth. I [...]
The Kidlet is one of those kids who puts everything in her mouth. You know the kind. Their faces always look vaguely grimy despite frequent wipings because they’ve always recently spat out something distasteful. They often have little rivers of mud flowing from the corners of their mouths. Sometimes they have multicoloured tongues due to [...]
One of the Kidlet’s favourite things these days is to “hup” her mum. When I put laundry into the washing machine, she’s right there wanting to “hup.” She’s very good at it too. She loads one item at a time, turns to me and says, “hup!” quite excitedly, then returns to her [...]
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