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Cooking up a Kiddo

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Every night, for a long time now, we have screen time with Kiddo.  When she was little, like two and a half or so, she loved the Red Hot Chili Peppers and we would find live footage and songs on YouTube and play those for her and bop along with her.  Cheap parent hack, if you need it.  Three songs.  Lots of energy, but not ramping her up to the point of ecstasy where she wouldn’t crash after a cooldown of brushing teeth and some goodnight kisses and questions.  Aside: Kids, at bedtime, seem to suddenly have approximately 4.7 Quartrillion questions to ask on all manner of subjects.  End Aside.  We moved a lost that a bit, with the set up on the living room and space we had, but it was always there; Sometimes laying in bed with her and the iPad, sometimes on the computer screen, sometimes bunched up in the living room around the TV there.   On vacations and traveling, we will do the same, sitting or laying in bed together, Kiddo in the middle of J a...
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Spooky Sports Doctoring

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Not only was yesterday Halloween, but it was also Sports Day at SMIC.  Sports Day is a completion between classes and a big deal.  There is a 50m race, relay race, tug of war and a few other things.  The kids always look forward to it, although J is always run ragged by it.  It’s fun, though, and the kids are off the walls for it.  Last year, Kiddo ran in the relay for her class, but this year, she was the fastest girl in her class during trials and she was the ET3E 50m runner.  She got a bad start and almost falser started and then hesitated and then ran, so she finished last, but it was a good showing, even with the stumble at the start.  Her class dominated the tug of war events, however.  As you can see, it’s all smiles. The kids have a half day and so at 11:45, I picked up Kiddo and we met J for a lunch before she headed back to do teacher stuff and Kiddo and I headed home to do home stuff.  I don’t know who’s day was busier.  J h...
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The Natural State of Turtles

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Before we started this adventure, while living in California, we had a term for Kiddo.   It was DB, Diaper Babe.   It seemed that as soon as Kiddo could stand, she was trying to get out of her clothing or jammies.   About half the mornings when we’d go to collect her from her crib, she’d have one arm out and as she got older we’d walk into see DB just waiting on us. Then, she got older and DB became UB, Undie Babe.  It’s always been her natural state, we think.  In CA, she’d get home from Miss Mabel’s and want to strip down to her undies, charging around the house at 3 and 4 years old in undies and a fluff.  That’s her other thing, fluffs.  Anything that is fluffy and soft she loves and will wear those sweatshirts or pullovers…. With just Undies.  Her natural state.  Even in BKK, Beer would leave or on weekends, we’d come back from the pool or just being out and J and I would hear, “Can I be an Indie Babe?”  When she got cold, she’d wra...
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