Time for a family update, methinks — this isn’t just meant to cover my professional life, after all. After all, there’s an important anniversary coming up…
Y’see, a little under a year ago — February 7th, to be precise — I took over fulltime care of my two children for the first time. Scary stuff, let me tell you. Let’s take stock, shall we?
In just under a year:
* Approximately 500 stories have been told, with a strong propensity towards stories featuring Muppets, Puppies or Bananas.
* I’ve prepared roughly 300 meals, some of which were even edible
* Roughly 3,000,000 gallons of bath water have been splashed all over me during bath time. Oh, wait, it just feels like that
* I’ve only shouted about ten times. That’s per half-hour over the last year, mind you.
A quick stocktake seems appropriate as well:
At 7/2/05
Number of Daddies: 1
Number of Mummies: 1
Number of toddlers: 1
Number of babies: 1
At 27/01/06
Number of Daddies: 1
Number of Mummies: 1
Number of “Big Girls”: 1
Number of toddlers: 1
Number of babies: 0.33
That’s superb capital growth. Why, at this rate, by the year 2525, Kidmans will make up roughly 792% of the world’s population!*
That also seems like the perfect segue into the latest scan of Kidman Junior. Taken last week as part of a nuchal translucency, they show the latest addition to the clan staring at one of its own feet. There’s a jawline, some nasal features, and we’re assured it has a brain. No idea where it got that one, really.
Current week count is 13 weeks (as of tomorrow); if we can make it through another 22 weeks without problems it’ll beat the records of its older brother and sister — but that seems like such a long time ago.
*Allowing for slight statistical error, and the possibility that I might be making it all up.