James just lifted a large pokémon squishmallow over his head, said, “this is potential snorlax!” then dropped it, saying, “and this is kinetic snorlax!”

James: I found some purple coins you missed [in Mario] me: wow, nice job! James: that's because I have a brain me: are you saying I don't? James: well, your brain is good at different things

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

My concerns were unfounded. Nothing I did in the past month could put a dent in this…

I really want to check what's in my mess of a spotify wrapped for this year, but James is home from school now, and I've been listening to the Hazbin soundtrack nonstop whenever he's asleep or out of the house for the past month, so I can't open it in front of him

He fell asleep like this 😆

I got James a fun rhyming book where the cat in the hat teaches kids about the planets in our solar system, and he was enjoying it until the cat said the outer 4 planets were all gas giants, and James had to go get out another book to show me that actually Uranus and Neptune are *ice* giants

I thought I heard James say Luigi was in the audience with a bunch of booze 😂

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”

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” 🙃

“Look mama! I made your game!”

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

sitting here watching my lights flicker every few minutes like 😬

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"

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

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

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

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

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

Now that James can read, it’s so much easier dragging him along on errands that involve waiting

gonna make James’s teacher regret asking if anyone has spare scrapbooking paper to donate for an upcoming art project

James watched his first subbed anime!!!

James just asked Ben “do you have time to play a tabletop game with me?” and presented her with a version of Super Robot Wars he made out of Lego pieces on a hand-drawn map

James: so this is Captain Kirby and his waddle dee crew (1st mate, 2nd mate, 3rd mate, and cook) being attacked by pirate awoofies, then here you can see all the waddle dees are dead and you have to figure out which ones they are. Now let me tell you how they died… This kid is ready for Obra Dinn

Has anyone played the new Golden Idol dlc that just came out? James caught me playing yesterday and made me explain one of the parts to him, and then today he drew a picture inspired by it that’s killing me 😆

Just flipped someone off for the first time in my life

I've helped supervise lunch for James's class 3 times so far, and the main thing I've learned is the kids LOVE kpop demon hunters

At James’s school today, they let me use the big paper cutter. It’s so big it doesn’t actually fit on any of the surfaces in the room

Me: you doing okay over here? James: yes, I’m collecting some good data

help my 6yo has become obsessed with a minor but popular sanrio character, so supply/demand is all out of whack and what little merch is available is on ebay for $$$

I found an old video of 3yo James condescendingly explaining something to me. Cool to see our vibe hasn’t really changed over the years

James: mom, do you have a hole punch? Me: what do you need it for? James: I just need it. You just have to trust me

Update: James made Lego models of some of the Lego models we saw today and made a mini convention for his toys to attend

Took James to his first con today!

Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!

It's day 2 of school and I'm already jealous of parents whose kids will eat the school lunches

Why is my 6yo’s comfort book a 120 page comic about the periodic table

James finally came through as the tiebreaker vote on my side for once and we got to listen to kpop demon hunters in the car vs whatever Ben’s listening to these days

the current happy meal collab is so good

Other picture books about jobs: teacher, firefighter, doctor, etc. The jobs book from James’s favorite nonfiction series:

every time I try to stop visiting nextdoor, something like this pulls me back in

It's so hot out, I just drove past our neighborhood park, and the pickleball courts were totally empty

James: I'm making a book series about me, and I'm basically the king of robots, so I call it the King James series me: you know, there was an actual King James James: is he dead? me: yes, he lived a long time ago- James: great, so nobody will confuse him with me

Ben somehow managed to isolate herself so completely from current events and culture, I just had to explain what Shein and Temu are, because she had never heard of them???

I need a clean version of the Mandelbrot Set song

the one my son's dancing robot plays