It’s basically a donkey kick. Except more whacrobatically executed.
Author Archives: Andrea Middleton
Currently at Reddit, I spent 10 years as a community organizer on the WordPress open source project. I'm also an avid reader, wine enthusiast, and parent of two.
Full bloom
High praise
Baxter, cuddling me: “I don’t want you to ever die, because you’re my favorite mom.”
Superbaxter got out of the trap!
A story in two videos:
The words in my brain were obviously having a rough time coming out of my mouth in a sensible order yesterday evening. Luckily, Superbaxter didn’t have any such trouble breaking out of the (tenuously) taped box that had somehow lured him into its treacherous cardboard clutches.
Salt and pepper chick check out my new bike helmet
Salt chick: Wow, that’s a nice bike helmet!
Pepper chick: Right? Looks like it’ll be cool in the hot summer sun.
Salt chick: I love the flowers on it; understated but cute.
Pepper chick: Highly functional and subtly pretty! That’s Andrea all over. Nice one.
Morning snuggle and breakfast negotiation
Baxter, cuddling on my lap after just waking up: Is it a school day or a stay at home day?
Me: It’s a school day. And we’re having oatmeal for breakfast.
Baxter: Do you mean, oatmeal cookies?
Me: No, just oatmeal.
Baxter: Just PLAIN oatmeal.
Me: Well, we can put things in it, like blueberries or cranberries…
Baxter: …or strawberries! But of course not MILK.
Hand henna
Also at the school fundraiser, I got a henna tattoo. I think it’s kind of fun that on my wrist it’s a little hard to tell what are henna dots and what are freckles. The henna took to the skin on my finger much more enthusiastically than it did to the skin on my hand/wrist. 
Salt chick pepper chick
Picked these up at our schools’s silent auction last night. I have a terrible weakness for cute salt and pepper shakers that I nearly never indulge. 
Mother’s Day wrapping paper
Front yard picnic
When I bike to the grocery store
I like to buy a lot of heavy stuff, because then when I ride home I don’t regret biking to the grocery store AT ALL. And I totally want to do it again next week.
Amelia on chores:
“Everyone’s making me do stuff that is so awful! I don’t like putting my clothes away!!!”
Cue heartfelt sobbing.
The Thing With The Stuff 