#The good ship Koniphile

[pasiphile]

Baybee has full on hit the language acquisition phase and one of the words she's practicing now is "draai" (pronounced "dry") which is Dutch for "turn" , a very logical word to fixate on given how many toys she has which feature turning wheels and it would all be fine and dandy -

except.

she doesn't pronounce the r.

So now we, her poor bilingual parents, have to somehow cope with a toddler who, while playing with her toys, very earnestly tells them to die.

#Baybee #The good ship koniphile

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#Bollie #The good ship koniphile

[konidraws]

Made myself a shirt c:

#the good ship koniphile #girlfriend

[perchanceapoet]

HEY EMMA WANT TO COME OVER TO MY PLACE FOR HOT CHOCOLATE?

YES I DO! HOT CHOCOLATE OFFERED = YOU + ME FRIENDS NOW => HUG AND/OR KISS YOURSELF SOME CHARLIE ON ME.

#pasiphile #the good ship koniphile #FRIENDS

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Bollie has apparently decided that 'mama' refers to any human and is consequently quite disappointed when we disagree when she points to herself and says 'mama'

#Mother am I not human??? #Bollie #The good ship koniphile

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Pasi and I trying to figue out Bollie's sleeping pattern

She slept for 6 whole hours two nights ago! And then yesterday she was up every two hours! What's the deal, child??

#The good ship koniphile #Bollie

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We visited a kindergarten today since baby will start in 2025 which means we have to enroll her in two months (:

She got a balloon from the principal who gave us the tour, and she was very happy with it, expressing her delight by going BAAALLLL (currently the most frequent word in her vocabulary)

To which the principal remarked: "Ah, girls these days aren't what they used to be, are they? Oh well, maybe it's good they're allowed to be boyish".

Lady, it's a balloon ?? My own first word was 'ball'??

#The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop

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We're doing a mini holiday at the coast and consequently went for waffles. Baby got bored sitting down so I took her for some walkies around the tea room, and was immediately surrounded by four men (the waiters) who all wanted go get a smile out of her :') two of them talking to me with additional baby voice ("who's got pretty eyes") while one was going peekaboo around a corner and the one at the bar was doing animal noises.

#Me: baby you'll get them fired #Them: no please we live for this it brightens our day #The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop #Also one of them went 'excuse him just making noises he only knows French'

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Sometimes the baby falls asleep in the car and you can't park in the garage so you and your wife just scroll tumblr in the car a bit.

#Parenthood #The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop #Gonna send them a redactle :) wifey loves redactle

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Every since starting solid food, baby's been waking up about every 2 hours at night for milk. She does sleep longer blocks when she's in between us, but that is heavy on our backs and necks because we adapt our posture in a bad way apparently. We've got an appointment with a sleep coach because we are tired.

But after some market research we've also gotten her a huge plushie to cuddle in the bed. It's the dragon pasi's holding up like the catch of the day.

It's the second night she's had it in her bed and the second night she's done over 4 hour blocks of sleep.

I think it would be hilarious if this is the solution to her sleep problems. Suck it, Kind & Gezin!

#The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop

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I commit art crimes whenever I can get my hands on my wife's phone

#The good ship Koniphile #'s smallest sloop

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Baby's legs have decided to go through a grow spurt so now it always looks like she's wearing knickerbockers

#The good ship Koniphile #'s smallest sloop

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Me, crafting upstairs:

The wife from downstairs:

#the good ship koniphile

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Guess what her other word is.

(🔴)

#The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop #Still need a shorter tag for her... #Bollie

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I was already allergic to baby advice before baby, and while I'm no longer panicky about it, I still dislike it. Post brought to you by me putting the baby to bed.

There was a lot of info on sleep training that got pushed in our direction, including a book called 'why French children don't throw food' gifted by one of my sisters in law. Basically, start early, let them cry, if you don't do it they'll never be able to fall asleep on their own.

And we ignored all that and went through months of carrying baby around in the baby sling for naps, and putting her in the stroller for naps, and pasi breastfeeding her until she fell asleep at night (for like an hour) until suddenly... We could just put her into bed and she'd fall asleep. It's great! It also happened without us doing anything. So my beef with any baby advice is still 'are you just asking us to persevere until they take another developmental leap and do the thing anyway'.

#The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop #Now to get her off the breast #4 times a night

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Bab had her first experience with ice today, 0/10 do not recommend

#Parentblogging #We went out for a walk in the garden and I pointed out one of the buckets that had frozen #*poke* look! Ice! #Bab proceeds to dunk her entire hand into the bucket #The good ship koniphile #'s smallest sloop