I have resigned myself to never knowing what happened.

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I tried not to sound nerdy.

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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.

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The wrinkles in the air would be great if it weren’t for all the heat.

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I guess I had not considered what it would be like for an eight-year-old kid to watch Laurea and I finish each other’s sentences all the time.

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Kina was mostly curious here about what “Li’l” meant, but she also noted that the car wash disaster depiction was accurate.

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I’m very proud of the reproduction of this particular tunnel in the gardens. Kina was more impressed with the balloon scene.

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She really did think that the beads would still be there. I have no way of knowing that they were not, but we didn’t find them, in any case.

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The trick is to grasp the lid, audibly say “a-HEM”, and then twist the lid. That is all it is. You think this trick will not work, but it 100% works.

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p.s. “Waddle is missing” is now Kina’s favorite game, which is really good for limiting my time on the phone.

After I painted this one, Kina pointed out that the analogy of soup and spoon was Laurea’s idea, but she did not deny asking to be the soup.

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The thing about a mischievous child is that she really isn’t that clever or even properly mischievous, but it’s entertaining at least.

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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.

Kina’s obsession with fairness is tested against every possible human interaction, down to the last clink of the glass.

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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.

She is compact but effective.

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I love this kid.

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She really knows when she has the leverage.

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We are not camp people, if I am being honest.

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I am trying not to be weird, but mostly for the hugs.

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Growing lankier is hard. I can help.

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I’m not saying we are not gross.

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Grandma and Yeh-Yeh have left the suburbs and relocated to Brooklyn, despite Kina’s dire warnings. We are all better for having them.

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