And Chris said to me, “Congratulations. Six years of no dead baby.”

Yup, that is the basic measuring stick of parenting. Not a perfectly accurate one, but a decent rule of thumb.

We kept her alive.

For her party, she had 18 friends come to Jumping Jacks. Well, we invited everyone I could think of. If I hadn’t been so busy with the job, I might have made better efforts to reach out to more people. But we invited more than 30.

18 came. It was a great party.

In a coincidence, the job laid me off on friday. But that is not important.

Her friends were amazingly generous and adorable with their presents. Most of them made little cards for her, which makes me think we should work on her writing more.

She got two games:

Monopoly Junior and Catan Junior.

So we spent a LOT of time today playing Monopoly Junior and Catan Junior.

Veronica is INTO monopoly. and Catan is a beginning strategy game. Chris can begin to teach her how to defeat the world.

I prefer monopoly junior. There is a lot of Math that is perfect for a kindergardner.

But I could see the world-domination gleam fire up in Chris’s eyes when we broke out Catan Junior. Veronica would do well to learn that skill.