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Apologies for the Reddit link but not sure where else to find it… Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave a nice quick summary of why AI toys are a bad idea:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1p7defc/joseph_gordonlevitt_warns_parents_about_buying/

Baby Beaver is learning how to wave goodbye, and climb down from the sofa, it's great. It's frustrating how little we see her every day, it's basically just a 2 hour window from when we get home, till her bedtime.

Baby is SO CLOSE to crawling! They’ll get up on their knees and kinda rock back and forth but we’re not quite sure what to do with our arms yet.

Ended up putting kiddo into daycare with a friend that runs one out of their house. Still pretty nervous about baby getting Covid but my friend let me put up an air purifier in their busiest room and if any of the other kids get sick I think I can pull baby for a week and work from home. We’re doing the best we can with what we have ultimately. And on the bright side, looks like they do have fun there!

Hello friends.

I feel bad for this weekend because on Saturday we promised the kid we would go to the zoo on Sunday and then he forgot about and also we did house work all day. I feel like he had two parents home but both of us were off doing things so we weren’t really “home” if that makes sense.

We found a bunch more mold behind one of the walls downstairs a few weeks ago and that is leading to days of work. I also purchased 4 more air filters and a dehumidifier. If anyone wants to complain about mold with me I can go on for days.

So while we were doing important work it still kinda feels like we robbed that kid of quality time.

Pretty sure my kid is the only one at her elementary school without unregulated internet access. We’ve locked down her DNS so only certain websites are available. Other parents just slap an iPad on their kids and let them go to town. I swear to god half the boys are going to be sucked into the manosphere by the time they’re in middle school. I don’t know what the other parents are thinking. Maybe they’ve never been so unfortunate as to have visited the dark corners of the web themselves but holy fuck.

After being bummed out about missing out on Metallica tickets I managed to get a ticket to Opeth on Friday. This was after the show was sold out for weeks. I've seen them a couple of times and they're great, so it was good to see them again. Especially considering my brother was going to go watch them but someone at the airport drove the baggage handler into the plane and the shitty regional airline out there doesn't give a fuck and didn't have anything else scheduled in time.

On Saturday I took the kids for a bike ride in the pram, we ended up going to a nearby wetland and walking around there because this new park near us isn't open yet. I haven't gone out with the kids like that in a long time so it was great to just go out for a walk and keep them busy. They immediately picked up sticks as big as themselves and carried them around for the whole walk, and not long in we saw a rabbit, which they chased after straight away. They were looking for rabbits for the rest of the walk and it was perfect timing we saw some again right as we got back to the bike.