We've been playing Chain of Memories, and James has been trying to figure out how many members of the Organization there are, since I won't tell him. He heard one of them call Marluxia 11 today, and told me, "I'm guessing there are 12, 14, or 15. Those seem like good numbers of guys"
I made the mistake of telling James I was playing a Lingo fan level, and now that he knows that's possible, he keeps asking when he can make one 🙃
The house on our street that burned down under mysterious circumstances a couple years ago is finally back on the market!
Help, James has started pointing out continuity errors in Kingdom Hearts
I told James to get his bed ready to sleep in, and instead he stacked up a ton of blankets and stuffies and told me he was terraforming it
Guess who tried to take their kid to the zoo today 🙃
Woodland Park Zoo@woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · last mo.A few minutes after 11 a.m. we received a bomb threat and we are evacuating the zoo. We are in contact with the Seattle Police Department and are prioritizing the safety of our staff, guests and animals.
It’s day 1 of summer break, and James just said, “imagine if you had a keyboard and you had to make a bunch of faces with no emojis. what a life!”
James told me the cover of my library book reminded him of Calvin and Hobbes. TF kind of Calvin and Hobbes have you been reading, buddy?!?
Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.
I just realized this pattern of mispronunciations my kid makes is just the opposite of people who say “nucular” for nuclear He consistently says words like particlear, reglear, binoclears
me: time to go to sleep James: no! I’m not done reading about malware! me: you what? James:
nurse (administering a basic mental health screening): do you ever hear things other people don't? James: no, I'm not a very good listener
The kids at James’s school have been raising baby salmon since January, and tomorrow it’s time to release them into the wild 😭
She’s so cuuute!!! I was up way too late last night finishing the skirt, but I got her done in time for James to give to his teacher before the end of teacher appreciation week!
The braid on this little Frida Kahlo doll I’m making for James’s teacher came out perfectly, but now I have to cover it up with flowers 😭
I was not aware Stranger Things had a new spin-off series aimed at kids and was really confused (still kind of am?) when my first grader got a plastic demogorgon in his happy meal???
I told James we had to discuss the paper his teacher sent home about some issues in class, and he dramatically responded, “we can’t! I’m just not made to be talked to!”
overheard walking past Ben and James's tabletop game: Ben: he asks for a hug James: [my character] loves hugs! Ben: roll to hug James: natural 20!!! Ben: it's the best hug you've ever had!
If James tells me "don't fall for the hype," one more time, I'm banning youtube in our house
James has been eating insatiably for the past week, and now all of his shirts are suddenly too short 🙃
My 7yo set up his spring-loaded pokeball to look like a space ship, then called me in and read a passage about the 1986 Challenger explosion before throwing it at a chair. How’s everyone else’s morning going?
I’m not feeling great and forgot to cut off James’s reading time and make him go to sleep. By the time I got there, he was writing out Scratch code by hand…
I asked James why his cherry blossom art project looked like a binary tree while all his classmates’ work looked more organic, and he told me he was copying a puzzle he saw in one of my room escape games. I’ve go to stop asking these questions when I’m not ready to get owned
LRT my local library just started this reading program for adults only. Millenials are gatekeeping literacy so hard the kids aren't even allowed to read for pizza anymore kcls.org/kcls-rewind/
KCLS Rewind
I (still) read for pizza Whether you had fun reading for pizza in the '90s or want to experience it for the first time, we're giving…
kcls.org
James keeps asking me why the Scratch logo looks like it’s in the Animal Crossing font, and now I can’t unsee it
