The family visit went well and it’s always good when my princess gets to see her cousins. She was excited to see a big kid and was surprisingly influenced by him even though in some sense it was a new person. Youths are impressionable at any age, the cousin would do something and immediately my princess would attempt it, but also I saw my brother with long hair last October and decided to grow mine out. The first time I grew my hair long was in high school when my other brother had grown his out, which leads me to notice the influence I have on my nephew. The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing with my girls, the princess is continuing her word explosion, at one point after her nap I asked if she had a good nap and if she opened her curtains. Both times she said yes and repeated back the sentence I had said, still it’s the first time she’s said full sentences and everyday there’s probably a new word she says for the first time. We had a lot of swimming time and I started throwing her up in the air while in the pool, she got a kick out of it. My Queen got a video of me jumping in the water to make her laugh and she screamed with delight for a good 20 seconds, music to my ears. Our attention is now focusing in on new baby preparation, most of the basics have been done, there’s always more to do. This week on the podcast we should have on the brother who will be replacing me during paternity leave. We’ve also been giving the ok to schedule the birth the beginning of September. I’ll also be taking some time off of the blog when that happens.
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