#fredspawn

[thunderheadfred]

clawing my way back to healthier day-to-day choices. For me, that usually involves dropping breakfast, and breaking a longer overnight fast with a healthy Japanese-style brunch (steamed rice, steamed veggies, simple protein like eggs or fish, and miso soup). If I do that for a few weeks, I always start to feel better as my hormones level back out.

point is, I made miso soup this morning and Baby. Lost. Her. Mind. She loved it.

my ten-stage three-decade plan to get my child to move to rural Japan and renovate an abandoned farm house and win over the local geriatric village weirdos and let me live with them for six months out of the year is one step closer to completion

[thunderheadfred]

got a Hawks blorbo tee from eBay for funsies, wore it today

Baby repeatedly pointed to Hawks and said "Daddy," which isn't a surprise, since she often uses "Daddy" as a general word for any friendly-looking man

what was a surprise: at dinner, she pointed to Hawks, then to her actual Daddy, as if emphasizing, no really, she does mean that kind of Daddy. She even counted them out for us. "One... Two... Daddy!" and clapped.

And partner and I were like. Ha ha Hmm. You still can't fly, kid.

[thunderheadfred]

Why is my toddler holding this berry like she’s a Caravaggio saint pointing to her murderer?

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first day of toddler day care. absolutely surreal to sleep in for a full night's rest, and then, upon waking, having several hours with which to do... nothing the fuck at all

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she’s a little fairy princess or something

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Baby's current favorite book is an old butterfly and moth spotting manual that my dad picked up at a garage sale somewhere. It's not valuable, which is good, cuz she's been tearing pages out of it left and right (weak glued spine from the 70s makes this easy)

She loves to sit there and page through it and point at all the different critters and babble to anyone willing to listen to her bug facts.

She calls them all "Abby" after Abby Cadabby from Sesame Street

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Cousin fun 💕

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Spent the weekend scrambling to find a convertible crib for Baby that can transition to toddler bed later on (or… I guess…. Tomorrow, if need be…)

Lucked out. This thing is rock solid. We got her original crib on FB Marketplace, I think for free. It was fine for little baby, not so much for Godzilla Baby.

This beast was also on Marketplace but it’s a TANK. Made in USA out of maple. I have no idea what price it originally sold for, but based on the fact the seller had six kids yet her house smelled like a department store, I’d say at least $500, probably more.

I paid forty bucks in drawer cash. Nice.