She walks him through the average, extremely easy, school day
Otis is about the same age Kina was when she started this project with me. She knows a lot about preschool, but only the first four months of it. After that, it was all a blur.
Tween collaborates with stylist on radical chic anime-inspired hair
Kina has been jonesing for a substantial shortening of her hair since she noticed how many anime icons have chic little bobs. Laurea and I gave her a 30% chance of freaking out when she saw just how much hair she’d taken off, but we got lucky—she loves it.
Publishers roams the floor at Anime NYC taking pics of cosplayers FOR FOUR HOURS
This was, to be clear, also parents’ first anime con, and it was a real doozy. Took ninety minutes sitting on a random bench outside Hudson Yards just to get my pulse back down.
Yikes! Sorry about that last send—I’m playing around with a new way to send the emails and that clearly didn’t work. Here’s one with the actual image! Enjoy! I promise I won’t do that again!
As they confront a string of 10pm “Game Nights”, Mommy and Daddy issue strong guidance regaring being in bed by 8:20
As her bedtime grew later and later, it crept deeper and deeper into my evening relationship time with Laurea, which I believe was intentional.
client’s list of requirements sends architects into a spiral
I remember being exactly like this going into fourth grade; it is extremely weird to know yourself better as you look at a totally separate human being.
Child starts to plan for when she is officially too old for Hannah, raising alarms
We have been talking about this possibility (with Hannah) for years, but this is the first time Kina has raised it with us directly. I can’t quite process it—and clearly none of us can, entirely.
Several hours old, half-emptied into her backpack, and sort of soaked through by both a torrential rainstorm and tomato juice, but Daddy gives it a try
I really wanted this headline to just read “You Simply Gotta / Try Kina’s Tostada”, but it didn’t fit well, which is my eternal struggle with this newspaper.
Trickster enjoys disrupting the lives of her many caregivers
The thing about a mischievous child is that she really isn’t that clever or even properly mischievous, but it’s entertaining at least.
dad
p.s. If you have just joined the party here, you should know that there’s a thing that happens with this newsletter in which I fail to send any of the Daily Kinas for like a week and a half, and then I panic and send two a day until I catch up, and then I get caught up and relax and forget to send for the next week and a half. It is a weird cadence, but if you can deal with it, there’s lots of good things to read twice a day, like, “Is the Sauce Chunky?” Hang in there. It’ll all make sense.
It should not be this hard to say the same number of cheers
Kina’s obsession with fairness is tested against every possible human interaction, down to the last clink of the glass.
dad
p.s. Welcome to anybody who found this through Ethan’s blog. Enjoy the pictures; I used to write way more words in here than I do now, so I am sorry if you love reading.
