Happy belated birthday.

Getting frustrated means my expectations are not correctly set.

A lot of wisdom right there, friend.

Make more art.
This didn’t happen.

You have a little human who was an infant and is now a toddler. And you have the opportunity, which many of our fathers did not, to spend time with him. That is wonderful, and it is naturally going to take precedence over everything else.

One thing I did early on with Ava was draw with her, from the time that she could hold a crayon. In that way, I continued to make art (even if it was mostly deliberately very silly art), but my goal was not to make art, it was to make art with my kid.

Anyway, enough unsolicited advice from me. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

P.S. You take amazingly great photos.