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Kid2 getting comfortable* with scale passages (Bach prelude something something)

*enough that she let me record and agreed I could post
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#Music #ParentingJoy

my daughter and I are both sitting on the sofa together sharing a pizza and watching metal covers on YouTube... living the dream

#parentingJoy

Kiddo has all the flat to play in , so where is she playing?

#parenting #ParentingJoy

He keeps saying Santa isn't real, but he still sets out milk and cookies for Santa, unprompted.

#ParentingJoy #SantaClaus #Xmas #XmasEve #ChristmasEve #santaclausiscomingtotown #christmas

made "wrapping paper" with kiddo for her gift to mummy
https://loops.video/v/5quYjUkOmM

killed three birds with one stone, something Christmasy todo, wrapping paper and quality time together. (though making snowmen and women shouldn't have been that difficult)

#ParentingTime #parenting #ParentingJoy

kido:" let's make bracelets"
me.... version 2 after dropping the first
oops typo 🤭 🤭 🤭

"there is no spoon"
#ParentingJoy #parenting #parentingfun
#matrix

kido:" let's make bracelets"
me....

#ParentingJoy #parenting #parentingfun
#matrix

this just started playing
https://youtu.be/SQh1zztmpEk?si=50kwOZdfrVukgwQg

so I went and grabbed my daughter laying her down on the kitchen worktop and started playing a la #Bluey.
😂

#parenting #ParentingJoy

context for those uninitiated with bluey
https://youtu.be/x6c0RPt2HPU?si=1yoosdafbOP0Hf8k

just did the throwing an invisible ball in the air and catching it in a paper bag then folding the bag flat " #magic trick" with my daughter (7).

hehehe 😂 oh the look of confusion and amazement when I flattened it.

"CORE MEMORY: UNLOCKED"

#parenting #ParentingJoy

my daughter (6) makes me smile so often for just being happy-go-lucky.

she is currently #singing
acapella knocking on heavens door (guns and roses one)

#parentingJoy

so lost on my daughter (6) 😔.

I'm in the kitchen prepping some pastry
YMCA started playing as quickly as I could muster
I moved into the lounge and timed it so appeared and did "the dance".

#dadmoments #ParentingJoy #music

ginger bread men, women, babies and trees in the oven.

I really enjoyed making these for the first time together with kido.

still in the oven but more ginger bread giants at the moment

#corememoryunlocked #parentingJoy

just played this
https://youtu.be/zXHG1PDI3-I?si=2Gp-ucmgytmInYUH

my daughter (6) while unable to name most of them, she was able to sing along from the question part for quite a significant number of them from the late 1960s onwards.

I was honestly impressed and quite proud 🥲

#music #parenting #parentingjoy #quiz

Just got a message from #school Summer is helping in assembly demonstrating #bsl
I am so Proud of her :D

#ParentingJoy

last night kido
"hey Google play baby sleep"

so complaining, no listening to ..is only for subscribers bs .
just played the correct one

also

"hey Google how many days is 20 days."

so many not a tech genius 😂

she meant what date in 20 days

#thingsKidsSay #parentingJoy

sat in the car waiting for wifey and Marilyn Manson's cover of "sweet dreams are made of these " comes on.
little one perks up, said "I know this song, but I don't know this...I like this"

#metalAllthings #music #ParentingJoy

gone out for the day just Summer and I. as I'm driving I put on "kid friendly metal and rock"

a metal cover of the Doom (og game) comes on and out of the corner of my eye I can see her tapping her foot and doing a bit of a head rock to the beat

#parentingJoy
#Doom #music

Summer was struggling with her homework
doubling numbers
15* 2 , 12 * 2 , 11 * 2 and so on.
once she got it wrong, trying stopped.

it kinda knocked her confidence.
so as part of showing her that breaking things up into smaller bits makes it easier!

so I set. 12434124×2 (all less than 5 so it's easier to double)

I have a very giddy kiddy right now

#mathsHomework #parentingJoy #parentinghacks

my 6yr old just said "fuuuuuccccckkkk youuuuuuuuuu" in a sing song way.
I gif...

she told me it's "thank you in an opera style"

phew
#parentingJoy

my daughter came home from school looking like she had been swimming in mud.

just got a photo from school...it suddenly all makes sense

#projectSummer #parentingJoy

have children they said, they will bring joy to your life they said!

nobody mentioned the 3a.m "daddy my sock has fallen off" or like last night at 4:15 a.m "mummy & daddy it's 4:15"

#parentingJoy

I needed a username on my daughter's laptop for my admin account
and "dadmin" was born

#geekDad #ParentingJoy #parentlife

I was woken by a little whisper in my ear "Daddy, I've lost a sock"

#ParentingJoy

Wifey: what are your favourite subjects at school?
Daughter (6): playtime, reading and dinner

#parentlife #parenting #ParentingJoy

Driving to swimming and black hole sun starts playing, our daughter singing along.
I smile
Wifey says "I can hear,I bet you are proud of yourself"
#DadLife #ParentingJoy #parentlife

Daughter Summer (6yr old) reading a book about"Roman life":
"mummy, why did girls and women stay at home and not go to work"

Mummy: (gif) "that was how it was in the olden days"

#ParentingJoy #parentinglife

My daughter's #reading book this week, she is 6 just.

The book is 7+ so massively proud of her for reading it so well.

I have no issues with her reading about Romans and slavery.
Honestly I'd rather this as it's factual history.

#DadLife #ParentingJoy

I want to make bread and butter pudding, I don't know why as last time I had it 26 years ago. I didn't like it.

But I just have an urge after a memory surfaced and it led to that horrible pudding, and now I want to see if it was me or it.

Only a couple of issues, no appropriate milk, no cream and wifey doesn't like it 😂.

Guess I'll make something else then as I really want to do something more fun with Summer
#HomeCook #cookingWithChildren #parenting #ParentingJoy

We are playing "Royal chefs", somehow my daughter has ended up with the huge crown 👑 and once again I've got this

I think I'm rocking it tbh, just wish it wasn't quite so painful to wear

#DadLife #parenting #ParentingJoy