hi sweeties! well, i didn’t fully Do November’s task, but we did move a whole house, continue parenting an 11 month old, and i went to Montreal for a work trip that could have been an email. so i feel okay about my efforts. i’m gonna try
Today is hell so I’ll leave it at this!
Everyone knows that babies will rip your earrings out without a moment’s hesitation. Despite this, for gender presentation (me) and professional (jane) reasons, we do insist on wearing them. At this point the notes are becoming more and more frantic as the baby attempts to comprehend so many of
At this point, the baby’s observations are scant. But the frustration is palpable. Within her short memory, this entire mass of blankets and fleece and heating pad and dog hair was on the floor, right where she could reach it. She could clamber within them and access the thrill
The next observed item is the dog water bowl. The baby raises some good points on this one. The bowl itself is precisely in her path unless we've got to it before she notices. It is brightly coloured, and contains her absolute favourite state of matter; liquid. The
In my tidying the other day, I uncovered these field notes, wherein a ten month old is attempting to understand some of the more contentious areas of her world. These illustrate items that seem to be indicating on a number of levels that they are FOR babies, and then the
Hi, so... I mean we all play with this from time to time, but I will say that babies play with it in a particularly aggressive manner. Time is feeling particularly fast-paced and fleeting as we approach our Big Move, and I need to be spending any loose moments putting
When Jane and I decided to start aiming to raise a small human in one manner or another, my main reticence was around the burdens my own parents left with me through their own particular style of parenting. My parents are not uniquely evil. They both followed a social script
Not my best work, I’ll grant you, but times are tough. We’re moving in t-12 days but I’m abandoning my family for a long-planned work trip in t-8 days and everything feels extremely hellish and urgent. Also the baby is currently in the process of saying Hell
I’ve been putting off drawing this asshole because of the sheer volume of accoutrements that needed to be captured. This ain’t no Montessori style baby toy, everyone. This here is a smorgasbord of baby stimulation techniques all rolled into one vaguely addled-looking xenarthrae. Prepper Sloth came to us
Our first collaboration. I didn’t quite nail the face here. Beyond the obvious piercing blue eyes, this Ty Beanie Something Or Other was also named for its rather judgemental expression. This depiction, with hands and feet both carried in a vaguely siddharthic position (is that a word? you know
This midsized stuffed brown bear was a gift to all the kids who attended a local ‘teddy bear picnic’. So I think knowing loosely the smaller subcommunity of kids who would have known about this event and attended, that means there are likely at least 50 bears identical to this