Emily

I asked James if he’d thought about what he wants to ask for for xmas, and he said no, because we have enough toys already.

He’s right, but I’m terrified to have somehow amassed an amount of stuff a 6yo considers “enough”

FUCK

The Windows lock screen actually showed me something cute for once, so I clicked the “like what you see?” button and it said “log in to learn more!” Then after I logged in, Edge automatically opened on a Bing search for “turtle” 🙃

my game:

“Look mama! I made your game!”

these were not all from the same book

words and phrases James has struggled with reading today:
"prior distribution," "posterior distribution," "potato"

I went to the “selfies” section of the photo app trying to find a picture of a sweater I knit a couple months ago, and instead I got jumpscared by James showing off all his missing teeth

oh, we're fucked if we end up in the back of that queue

sitting here watching my lights flicker every few minutes like 😬

I had to call Ben in, because I got so frustrated, James gave me the calming labyrinth sticker and told me I looked like I needed it

it was cold!

James isn't even impressed by this game. The other day I was like "Ben, I got the solenoid driver working! I feel like a genius!" and James immediately goes "you aren't."

at my parenting group, the icebreaker was to say one thing you did this week just for yourself, and I said I played this puzzle game where you design chip circuits, because it uses my brain in a way that lets me tune everything else out, and another mom was like "oh, so that's where James gets it"

also after all of this, we can't stop him from just calling Ben "Ben." I had to explain to his teacher, because he kept writing that his family was "me, mom, and Ben" and I knew if she asked him who Ben was, and he'd just say "she's my dad!"

That’s awesome! I was unprepared and answered kind of clumsily, but the kid seemed satisfied and had no follow-up questions when I told her James has a dad who’s actually a girl

family status: It's Complicated

had a 6yo ask me "does James have two moms?" before I'd even had my coffee this morning

also I am *not* playing that game any more since I beat all the levels and had to move on to designing these fucking chips

I can't believe he's recreating the fucking chuck e. cheez level

James: I need help cutting out a lot of circles of brown paper
me: what are they for?
James: pizza crusts. I'm making that food game you're always playing

that food game I'm always playing:

James’s class pranked another class by making “creepy carrots” and covering the classroom door in them, but they were only up for a few days, and now I have this thing on my fridge

James keeps making self-portraits that look like Golden Idol characters

I'm proud of the achievement, but I'm not proud of some of the things I did to get there

how rare of an achievement do you have to earn in a zachtronics game for it to count as a cry for help?

Yeah, but then I still have to figure out it what everyone else is eating

This was always my favorite, but nobody else in my house will eat it 😭

When I say my 6yo is a diva, I mean he's choosing to spend his last bit of time before bed alone in his room listening to Lady Gaga's "Applause" on repeat

same

James caused such a scene getting his flu shot, they gave him an entire sheet of these stickers to get us out of there