We were so high up in the rafters, I’m not even sure how they knew which team had the ball. Didn’t stop them from cheering, though.

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Nobody taught this kid to row boats. It is the strongest proof I have found for reincarnation—our little boatman.

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I have taught this child well.

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We have been awaiting this transition in her public friend time for many years. She is that tween.

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Memorial Day weekend came in hot.

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The critics are raving about Kina’s beautiful waterfall landscape on the front wall of the elementary school gym. Front and center.

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This primarily means that she gets to decide who snuggles who and when the snuggling happens.

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I went with Beans, Beans, Beans.

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In the traditional way: Come for the completely premature anticipation of Halloween, stay for the “Turnstiles are my favorite kind of door”

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We are only at May 19th?! She was still in her tour guide phase!

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I am not so learned in the dancing arts, but I was honestly taken aback at how graceful our own child was on stage. She did not get it from me.

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I am honestly shocked this was a field trip in 2025. The chaperones on this one really took their lives into their own hands.

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She just wants me to get to the point.

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Kina approves of Mommy’s recent interest in colorful rings.

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Kina brought this idea home from school, where a new classmate’s name is drawn daily from one of several enveloped tacked to the wall. Presumably, by the end of the school year, every student will have been the Celebrity of the Day. In our house, the rotation is much faster, and we have run out of new games to play.

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I’ve known some coworkers longer than Kina has been alive, and so it comes as no surprise that nostalgia is a new feeling for her. I feel nostalgic, too, for the smaller version of Kina. We can share that now.

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I let her wear it.

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A little throwback to Mother’s Day here as we catch up. The weather was better then.

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If I remember this night correctly, it turns out she also had a cold.

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Mommy was really rooting for the Filipino one.

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