BjarniBjarniBjarni ๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ ๐Playing fireworks from Youtube on the TV to prepare a baby for the chaos of the next few days...
Update: She happily slept through all the booms and bangs. Dunno if the prep helped, but it clearly didn't hurt!
So, toddler is potty training! Or potty learning, more accurately, we're attempting the gentle approach first.
It was going great, we were up to 5 or 6 days in row where the little one had peed in a potty and then happily run around naked for a bit.
Then a poop!
Uh oh. Baby was horrified. A TURTLE! A TURTLE!
Then another butt-turtle happened the next day...
Now she is anxiously avoiding the potty entirely. Stupid turtles.
Dirk SchwiegerWent to my kids' school yesterday for parents' night, and boy did my body exactly know what to do:
Huddle in the back row,
mind-wandering mode on,
scribble for your life!
It was like I never left.
evilchiliWe were listening to Snail Zero from Aesop Rock's latest in the car:
I think about the day it eventually overflows
And fills the whole apartment
Then fills the whole of Rome
Son: If he was in Rome he could just sell them [because they were a delicacy]
My *son* is now catching Aesop Rock bars.
This is a very particular kind of #DadToot
JL Johnson 
Seems to me that Home Depot is getting aggressive with having โgood stuffโ exclusively.
Forever they have had Ryobi, only a few weeks ago I learned Kilz is going exclusive, and now I see the super cool Leviton Edge outlets are exclusive to HD, too.
Ha! What a #DadToot
Just stumbled upon this box my daughter glued together for me many years ago, when she was just beginning to write single letters.
I love the floating island she has drawn on it, but the secret highlight are all the zigzag lines around it.
I remember asking her whether those were birds, and her casually explaining:
โNo no, the N stands for โnothingโ โ itโs all the nothingness around the island!โ
I love seeing my 9yo and 8mo interact!
They adore each other. So many smiles and giggles.
My 9yo is at her mum's now, we swap once a week. It's always bittersweet, when she goes - life is definitely *easier* with one less kid to look after. But it's also a tiny bit emptier.
I miss seeing them smile at each other over the dinner table. #dadtoot
Just like poops and farts and other butt things, my 9yo thinks twerking is hilarious.
When she twerks, it is an attack, a butt waved at a hapless parent.
Body shaming is bad and sexualizing children is dumb. So I pretend to be horrified at the ick, but refrain from scolding.
Tonight kiddo was sad. So... I offered to show her more twerking than she'd ever seen before in her little life.
...
Major Lazer's Bubble Butt is now a thing we watch as a family.
I'm as surprised as anyone. #dadtoot
The silver lining in all this, is my kid is wiling to tell me all these things, so we do get an opportunity to chat about it.
I've been investing in that for a while and will continue to do so. I thank her for talking to me and remind her that I will never be mad when she tells me things, no matter what.
It's only going to get more and more important. #dadtoot