Cat Blanket

What’s funny is that this picture is actually from June, but we’re just now getting to it so we can properly celebrate Caturday.

Though I also feel like this picture probably doesn’t need much more in the way of text.

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Arting Child

Look at the blur on that marker! She’s in the process of making something… and then moving on to draw on herself afterward, naturally.

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Drooling Nap

My favorite way for them to pass out on me is when they just fully zonk. This little guy will fight sleep, he knows it’s coming and will squirm angrily, cry, and otherwise flap, trying to somehow get away from the monster also known as sleep…

But sleep wins in the end.

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Gamer Training

She wanted to make a void elf character on my account. I can’t remember what chores I was doing at the time at this point, but I went ahead and said sure, go ahead.

Newbie then joined her, so we had small siblings partying up out in the world. I believe Superman and maybe Little Miss were also playing, but having these two young future gamers sitting side-by-side was the important shot for me.

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Handily Cute

It’s how he has his little arm positioned under his chin that really gets me on this picture of adorable sleeping.

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Cuddled Sisters

Most days I wake up part of a baby sandwich.

After extracting myself this time, and going and checking on them, I found this beautiful scene instead.

The joys of summer mornings when the kids can sleep in.

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Selfie Boys

Enough gaming posts for now, how about a pair of selfies with the potato from July?

Yes, they’re a little blurry, but he was interested in eating my phone and figuring out why he was staring at another baby. 😉

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OW – POTG – Knightowl’s First

Newbie recently (in July) bought her own license of Overwatch with some fun money and on our first weekend playing all together she managed to score this POTG!

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Just… One… More… Turn… (Happy Birthday Civ!)

Welp, thanks for making me feel old…I started playing Civ from Civ II with a demo.

Sometimes seeing how fast I could “beat” the demo (by discovering gunpowder) and sometimes seeing how long I could avoid beating it (by avoiding gunpowder at all costs). Alpha Centauri, a spin-off game, saw a full play-through the night TJ was born because Redflare was in the hospital in a shared room so I couldn’t stay over and be with them.

Too excited to sleep, I spent the whole night from turn 1 to victory playing that game, waiting until visiting hours were available so I could go see them again. Through the years, Civilization games are my default go-to when I’m pinned down holding a sleeping baby. From TJ and Little Miss to Fireball and Potato.

I believe I held Superman while playing Civ IV, for example with Newbie likely sleeping with Civ V and Thunderer while playing “Beyond Earth” (another spin-off).

Hard to believe the game now celebrates its 30th anniversary.

So off we go now, for just… one… more… turn…

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Sleeping Buddah

Just look at all that chubby baby goodness.

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