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Delighted to have daddy spray him with the hose...boys.

Sometimes it's hard...

 

During our twenties, my girlfriends and I would sit Shiva in smoky coffee houses and loudly proclaim the death of gender stereotypes.  Gender differences were mythological principles a patriarchal society had used to ensure that women would remain powerless.  Men and women were the SAME!  We were all capable of corporate or parental greatness!  Nature had nothing to do with it! 

I got older.  I got married.  My girlfriends got married or shacked up, most of em with men.  It took some time for us to admit the truth.  We knew it long before we said anything out loud, but we know now that men and women are very different.  To encapsulate:

Men are f**ked.

I mean, they are WEIRD.  They are not the same as us AT ALL.  The worst part of it is that men have skillfully whitewashed their true attributes.   I wish twenty year old me could dramatically light a cigarette and inhale deeply before saying the following:  The worst characteristics about men are the ones most often attributed to women.  They are sensitive, they are impulsive, and most importantly, they have no common sense.

I have proof.  My husband recently power washed our back stair case. Said stair case is narrow and steep affair (it’s like, a story high).  He started at the bottom and then perched precariously in his crocs (best shoes possible for wet slippery work) at the top of the stairs.  OF COURSE he fell.   I was away for the night visiting one of the grandmothers and would not return unit the following day to find the body.  He’s alright but check out his ass in the attached photo.

A woman would never do this.  A woman would recognize that having a clean back porch was not worth her life.  

Porch looks nice though.

Not my idea

Hoser

Back in Black

Shenanigans

Soooo, the nugget was making a 'bit' of noise behind closed doors at nap time yesterday.   I was cleaning the bathroom and daddy was doing something or other and the noises the nugget was making were happy noises so we kept at our chores.  I mean, he's safe in there; he can't get into any trouble in his crib.  

Yeah...check out the results of our slack ass parenting.  He somehow dragged/pulled/I don't know his crib over to his bookshelf and dragged a large folder of photos into the crib.  

I just love these random and sudden developmental milestones.

Stay away from my baby

Check out the nugget's mosquito bites.  He was fine when we put him to bed but apparently, we didn't put him to bed by himself.  I would like to thank Aunt Claire for her lack of pity during the violent killing of the bug the next morning.  Can you believe one bug did this?

Anyway, I was totally surprised by the pharmacist's advice for babies and mosquito bites; hydrogen peroxide.  I mean, I've had a lot of bug bites over the years and never heard of that!  The bites look MUCH better this morning.  Poor little guy.

Afternoon at the beach

Q-master

Happy Canada Day!

Someone was NOT happy about the 21 gun salute.