Emily
whylemon.bsky.social
Emily
@whylemon.bsky.social
He fell asleep like this 😆
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I got James a fun rhyming book where the cat in the hat teaches kids about the planets in our solar system, and he was enjoying it until the cat said the outer 4 planets were all gas giants, and James had to go get out another book to show me that actually Uranus and Neptune are *ice* giants
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I thought I heard James say Luigi was in the audience with a bunch of booze 😂
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I asked James if he’d thought about what he wants to ask for for xmas, and he said no, because we have enough toys already.

He’s right, but I’m terrified to have somehow amassed an amount of stuff a 6yo considers “enough”
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Windows lock screen actually showed me something cute for once, so I clicked the “like what you see?” button and it said “log in to learn more!” Then after I logged in, Edge automatically opened on a Bing search for “turtle” 🙃
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Look mama! I made your game!”
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
words and phrases James has struggled with reading today:
"prior distribution," "posterior distribution," "potato"
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I went to the “selfies” section of the photo app trying to find a picture of a sweater I knit a couple months ago, and instead I got jumpscared by James showing off all his missing teeth
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
sitting here watching my lights flicker every few minutes like 😬
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
at my parenting group, the icebreaker was to say one thing you did this week just for yourself, and I said I played this puzzle game where you design chip circuits, because it uses my brain in a way that lets me tune everything else out, and another mom was like "oh, so that's where James gets it"
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
had a 6yo ask me "does James have two moms?" before I'd even had my coffee this morning
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
James: I need help cutting out a lot of circles of brown paper
me: what are they for?
James: pizza crusts. I'm making that food game you're always playing

that food game I'm always playing:
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
James’s class pranked another class by making “creepy carrots” and covering the classroom door in them, but they were only up for a few days, and now I have this thing on my fridge
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
James keeps making self-portraits that look like Golden Idol characters
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
how rare of an achievement do you have to earn in a zachtronics game for it to count as a cry for help?
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When I say my 6yo is a diva, I mean he's choosing to spend his last bit of time before bed alone in his room listening to Lady Gaga's "Applause" on repeat
October 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
James caused such a scene getting his flu shot, they gave him an entire sheet of these stickers to get us out of there
October 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Now that James can read, it’s so much easier dragging him along on errands that involve waiting
October 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
gonna make James’s teacher regret asking if anyone has spare scrapbooking paper to donate for an upcoming art project
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
James watched his first subbed anime!!!
September 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
James just asked Ben “do you have time to play a tabletop game with me?” and presented her with a version of Super Robot Wars he made out of Lego pieces on a hand-drawn map
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
James: so this is Captain Kirby and his waddle dee crew (1st mate, 2nd mate, 3rd mate, and cook) being attacked by pirate awoofies, then here you can see all the waddle dees are dead and you have to figure out which ones they are. Now let me tell you how they died…

This kid is ready for Obra Dinn
September 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Has anyone played the new Golden Idol dlc that just came out? James caught me playing yesterday and made me explain one of the parts to him, and then today he drew a picture inspired by it that’s killing me 😆
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just flipped someone off for the first time in my life
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I've helped supervise lunch for James's class 3 times so far, and the main thing I've learned is the kids LOVE kpop demon hunters
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM