OLIVIA

Liv, yesterday daddy got a little tired of the white noise machine.

Don’t misunderstand me. I like the monkey-shaped noise machine. It plays all day.

If I turn on the monkey machine and bounce you on your “babybjorn,” then you let daddy watch TV or read…without your special type of commentary on the state of affairs in our house. You can very loud.

However, this week mommy and daddy needed more than white noise so we started streaming music on Spotify.

You didn’t object to all of it. I learned you really like cheerful fast-paced classical music. You also made it clear that you did not like slow choral music – thank goodness.

When the music changed you have a green pacifier that you stop sucking while you ponder. It’s kind of cute.

When you don’t like the next song you spit out the sucker and give me more commentary. You’re quite the critic.