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Melissa: If I wear that, peo­ple will think I’m gay.

Brian: They won’t think that with a hunk like me walk­ing be­side you!

At the Hutt house, play­ing with Amber and keep­ing Lydia com­pany while she used the re­stroom.

Melissa: He’s got a sexy, smol­der­ing look.

Brian: Yep, that’s what you want in a doc­tor.

The girls dressed in princess dresses, sweetly singing happy birth­day to me while I lay in bed ❤️

Brian do­ing a ridicu­lously en­er­getic and hi­lar­i­ous dance to “Wiggle Through the Night”, a song on the girls’ mi­cro­phone

Trying to guess the names of clas­si­cal mu­sic tunes; laugh­ing be­cause Brian tried to sound ed­u­cated so many times

Laughing with Brian while watch­ing “Baggage” with Jomboy and Jake on YouTube

A Leaf For My Boo, Adam’s au­to­bi­og­ra­phy

Doing the sand­wich song with the girls, one par­ent hold­ing the feet and the other their hands

Laughing with Brian while read­ing My Immortal

Daughter sand­wich song with the girls right be­fore bed

Beating Michael and Esther at Wingspan on our first playthrough

Creating a con­spir­acy the­ory with Brian about Japan hav­ing faster-than-light space travel!

Brian sang rock-a-bye-baby to Amber in the voice of the Swedish Chef as he swung her around, and she gig­gled up­roar­i­ously.

Brian brought Penny to sit on our bed, and she just started laugh­ing with de­light and shak­ing from side to side in her hap­pi­ness at see­ing us.

Brian beat me by one point in Terraforming Mars, but then as we were putting the game away we dis­cov­ered a card that gave me an ex­tra two points which I’d for­got­ten to count.

Brian play­ing with the girls on the mat­tress–let­ting them walk up his legs, body slam­ming, crawl­ing un­der each other.

Eating lunch at Michael and Esther’s house af­ter play­ing at the park, and Brian just looked so manly and gor­geous.

It was 8:30 at night, and Brian and I had­n’t eaten. I had wanted to make burg­ers, but it just kept get­ting later and later as we tried to get the kids into bed at a de­cent hour. Finally they were down, but since it was so late I con­sid­ered just scroung­ing. Brian, self-sac­ri­fic­ing that he is, said that would be fine with him. I felt dis­sat­is­fied with how the night was turn­ing out, and af­ter a minute of in­ter­nal de­bate de­clared I was go­ing to make the burg­ers any­way. He looked so pleased, I knew I’d made the right de­ci­sion.