The family took a brief trip to the flea market but, and I do sound like a broken record here, I just hadn't yet found my flow with taking caps. What do ya want from me, huh?! Consistent pictures?! Too much to ask.


Wow, I am just now noticing the lady in the yellow with no pants on. I played this game! I was there! I edited this photo and I'm just now noticing, days later, typing this caption. I have no words. Just underwear.


Helena: For the third time, August, your food is not in Chester's bowl. You are a human boy.


August: But, MOM!!!


August: Chester's food is so much better. All you give me is peas.


Look at that incredible furrowed brow. I've never met a toddler with such emotion.


I'm obsessed with this! Toddlers in a baby pool! He's chewing on a duck!

For someone who gets really annoyed when people use too many exclamation points, I certainly am using a lot in these posts. Sue me!


Helena: Please stop splashing me in the face.
August: Let me eat the dog's food then.


Look at that smirk. Helena's got this parenthood thing down. You rock that potty training, kid.

*cue the cute animation screencap dump*




There's always that one picture that has no purpose other than showing off the pretty.


I know that August is begging for attention in the background but sometimes mothers and grandmothers just need time for themselves, ya know?


August: Blarfy, please, no one will pay attention to me. I was stuck in that highchair for, like, 3 whole minutes.


Lynn: Has your dad been showing you those horrible flashcards again? Just come to grandma. It's okay now.


I really love these imagination animations. This game is just continuously making me happy with its elements.


Oh, yeah, the nanny came back and August is still alive so I definitely misjudged her. I'm so sorry.



Look at these two! Best friends till the end.


Okay, this is rude. I didn't mean for the end to be literally the next photo. I have no other words. This dog has been by our founder's side since the very beginning. She watched her paint. She watched her sleep. She loved Erick and August. And now she's gone.


As I said, rude. Grim needs to take his tablet and go.


It's time to fess up. Up until her death, I did not realize Chester was a girl. She was my creation. I molded her in CAS. And I didn't realize she was a girl. I am an idiot.


Anywho, we mourn really quick over here at the Plumbob Diaries so meet Yogi, who is also a girl but I knew that from the start.


She's so SMALL. I just want to SQUISH HER.


God, Helena, I know she's not Chester but act like you've done this before. Think of how she's going to grow up as your son does and the bond that they are going to have.

Who's cutting onions?


And that bond is already forming. Cue the cuteness.