High of 43*. Independence is very much in vogue. Proudly walks into my room post-bath, having been instructed to dress himself:

“How do I look, Mom??”

And then proceeds to play outside with the neighbor kids wearing his unicorn-print-patterned winter jacket similarly unzipped from mid-afternoon till dinnertime.

Related: clearly they’re related // unspoken arrangements mean no matter what our kids wear, it will never require more than a machine wash & dry