The River Bend

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together

Deep Sea Lapis

Modeled after the depths and resemblance of translucent deep sea fish Dense and rich in color but much like that depth of sea can be suffocating to be around for too long  Objectively nothing is wrong with her gem...yet she turned out such a deep blue 

My wife pointed out to me the other day that apparently most people were literally only taught how to say Sorry and not how to Apologize or even that they are different things so here.

Another day, another doggy you can’t pet. Meet the dhole (Cuon alpinus). Found widely across parts of Asia from India to China to Indonesia, this social canid typically lives in groups of up to 12 individuals. Sometimes it even socializes with other groups of dholes to form “super packs” of more than 30 members! Teamwork enables these hunters to take down prey ten times their size. And unlike many other species of canid, dholes allow their pups to feed first on kills. Their diet includes pigs, deer, and buffalo.

Golden Lion Tamarin, an exquisite little monkey weighing less than two pounds.

And her name was -

And her name was Rabiosa, and Honora, and her name was Desolata. She has been Melpomene quite a lot, unless she was Thalia. And sometimes Melthalia!

and Sōseji. And Stellapetra and Labellula.

And mostly in later years, Mum - pronounced "MUUUUUUM!"

And then one day she said to her spouses that she wouldn't mind being -

Thintrí.

No, not exactly, not out of nowhere. With the accent in the right place. No, it isn't Latin - oh, go and look it up for yourself.

Not going backwards. No, not that. Never that.

Ahhh thank you thank you!!

I love explaining, I’m going to explain

Rabiosa - Latin - “raging, furious.” Charlie had just left Ireland

Honora - Latin - “honour/honourable” - Charlie attempted respectability and fitting in with his ghastly relatives

Desolata - Latin - desolate/lonely 😔

Melpomene - the Greek muse who is patron of tragedy and playing the lyre; the sad face in 🎭

Thalia - the Greek muse of comedy; sister of Melpomene; the happy mask in 🎭

Melthalia - a pretentious combination thereof

Sōseji - Japanese handling of “sausage.” Charlie had acquired a friend and housemate whose daemon was nicknamed “Haggis.” Sausage and Haggis.

Stellapetra - Greek; star and stone; star-rock. Charlie picked a career.

Libelulla - misspelled above - level; genus name for dragonflies.

Thintrí - Irish - lightning. Probably her birth name was in the form Tintreach, to go with Toirneach (thunder) who probably preferred going by “Thunder”

Closest match: Codakia orbicularis genome assembly, chromosome: 11 Common name: Tiger Lucine

Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to believe that you're a person who deserves the things all people deserve.

You can't get from "I'm the Worst" to "I'm a worthy and lovable person" without passing through "I'm just a regular fuckup like everybody else."