Happy news about children
To calm myself down so I have a realistic prospect of sleep (which I could do with - I know, surprising isn't it?), here's an update about the kids.
( Cut for those who unaccountably aren't fascinated by every tiny detail of child development ... )
( Cut for those who unaccountably aren't fascinated by every tiny detail of child development ... )
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Yup.
tinged with a little sadness to think I (probably!) won't be caring for any more helpless babies.
s/little sadness/relief/
for me
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Luckily if you can give a definite answer like that you can often trigger a stop. (I could see where that conversation was going, and I need to revise my molecular orbital quantum mechanics before I can explain it to toddlers.)
Man, it's scary to think how quickly I'd be pushed to the limits of my knowledge by a toddler's questions - I realise I don't really have more than the fuzziest picture of why water likes to stick to itself a lot more than it likes to stick to the air. I guess in that situation I would have had to shrug and say "Actually, I don't know why, I'll have to look that up and get back to you". I'm sure that would have its value too though...
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The quatlet merits his own update, but he now crawls very efficiently to try to keep up with R. So far he's tried once to get onto a stair, to follow R scampering to the top. He fell off.
Must give him another bath...
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Re "why... why... why..." - offspring v similar except that "why..." was interspersed with "like?" (meaning "give me an example")
Re running out of answers - the phrase "We could do a search on that!" became v popular around that time and is still in favour :-)
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