Lets Go Kiddo

It’s the end of an era.  In many ways. Tuesdays were Dada and Kiddo lunch at McDonalds together.  It was our thing.  The cleaning staff would come in and it’s easier if we were gone, so it became a little tradition with Kiddo and myself.  If was something I looked forward to with her.  With summer here, J is around and that’s not a bad thing, but Kiddo may or may not want J with us for those lunches.  By the time J is back in school, we will have moved and Kiddo will be in school as well.  So, those lunches, the (almost) year of Kiddo Dada lunch time is closing or closed.  Yes, we may do it again in some form or another as we all transition to the next school year, but it won’t be the same.   It’s bittersweet.  I’m happy that I had that time with her.  It was so much fun.  So much us .  Just her and I.  J came with this last week and took some pics.  She said it was just very us, very much Kiddo and Dada....

I’ve gotten a couple messages and comments recently about my comments and writings on MuriKKKa and MuriKKKans.  With all apologies to Jeff Foxwood or Foxham or whatever it was…. You MIGHT be a MuriKKKan if- You wear a red hat and still believe Trump actually won. You see no problem with SCOTUS Justice “Beer” Kavanaugh or Amy Cultist Barrenthoughts You vote for a candidate not for policy or history, but to “own the libz” You blame Joe Bidden for gas prices and inflation You think that prayer in school must AUTOMATICALLY mean Christian prayer  only You can’t be told to wear a mask or get a vax, but see no problem in telling women what to do with their bodies Screamed about the “Caravan” just before the 2018 midterms only to conveniently forgetting about it the next day Think woman wouldn’t need abortions if they “weren’t sluts” Think that LGBTQI+ is a silly bunch of made up letters and say things like, “My pronoun is patriot” You hand wave the J6 hearing and call ...

Summer begins and that means a lot more J in my day.  It’s only been the one day, so not much to say about more J, but generally speaking, that is a good thing.  Especially for Kiddo, since she gets some Mumma Mondays.  They are going to do learning.  And playing.  And just Mumma and Kiddo stuff.  Plus, they have started a To-Do list…. And don’t call it a checklist, “it’s a To-Do list with checks on the done ones, Dada!” They did get out and have some fun yesterday at Decathlon.  Kiddo needed some bouncing time and they have a track for scooters and bikes and the like.  So, Kiddo could burn off energy and have some fun and bounce and just live her best Kiddo life.  They also went to Kidzoona for playing there.  As you can see, Kiddo was all about climbing the walls.  Of course, that was followed up with an ice cream treat and why wouldn’t it be?  Mint Chocolate Chip.   The real fun was at home though.  Kiddo was b...

Kiddo and Beer are fun to watch, they just flow with each other and it’s cute.  Beer gets Kiddo and has a sense of wonder and childlike fun, but she’s also got a teacher’s mindset, so she does things to help enrich Kiddo.  Helping her plant a garden is part of that.  J got some more seeds for us to plant and Kiddo was excited, so her and Beer added to our garden.  Plus, Beer brought us some sticks from her house for the bean plants to climb.  I wish we had a lot more space, but with what we have, I like it.  I hope we get some type of yield from this, even if it’s just a single bean.  I think Kiddo will lose her mind. As you can see, the bean plant that we did get to sprout is happy as all get out right now.  With us opening the house and the plant having the ability to get some fresh air and some actual sun (thru the screen, but still) since on night when it rains it knocks the humidity out of the air and we can spend the night letting the fres...

Going to keep it short today. Kiddo and Beer went on a day trip yesterday to a desert cafe farm type thing.  She had a blast.  The only bad news was that BattieCup got a rip and so we needed to do Dada/Kiddo surgery this morning on him.  He needed a night to rest and have a boo-boo buddy ice pack for the night.  Sorry I didn't get pics, but BattieCup slept all last night wrapped in a blanket with an icepack.  I couldn't love her more.  However, how cool for Kiddo.  She got a chance to see and touch a water buffalo.  How frickin cool is that!   And ride a bike. And just be her and explore and have some fun experiences and eat some yummy treats with Beer.  What a cool thing to do.  I wish, at 5, I could have had the same experiences.  I'm constantly amazed at Kiddo; her bravery to do things like this, her thirst for wanting to see and know about animals and nature.  She's incredible and we hope that this is just the beginnin...