Year 3
January 1st
Dear Wally
Happy first birthday! Not you, the kid. Sadly I spend nearly all my time now chasing her now she's figured out how to walk. Not fun, she's like a baby ninja, she gets into places I can't. Do you know how embarrassing it is to go next door and ask if you can borrow their little boy so he can get my daughter out from a tiny gap in the wall? I'll answer that, it's very embarrassing.
Other than that, life's very peaceful, I never thought life would be this calm. The mountain air is so clean in comparison to Gotham's grey, smog. You know the only cars around here are military vehicles. And snowmobiles that run off vegetable fuels. Adornovica is one of the most environmentally friendly countries on the planet.
Most people either walk or use horses to get around, it's incredible. People talk to each other on the street, no one walks with their head tucked down, or in fear that they're going to get stabbed. Everyone knows everyone, and they have done since before they were born. They're so different from Gothamites, friendly, open and warm. It scares me, this whole country is just so scary and new and a little exciting.
February 3rd
Dear Wally
So we're back at school and my students are still making me laugh with their comparisons in their lit works and also with their crazy questions about America. Talking about people who are making me laugh, Zatanna is pregnant and hates every second of it. She's having a pretty bad time with her morning sickness, I didn't get a lot of that.
Blair's made friends with the little boy next door, his name is Niklaus, Nik. They're really cute together, he looks after her and is very protective and she adores him, follows him around like a little puppy.
If you were here you'd probably start being an over protective idiot of a dad, and spout some crap about here not knowing anything or seeing any boys until she's fifty. You'd probably be right, it would save a lot of heartbreak, but then we'd be the overprotective sort of parents, so we wouldn't do that.
Damn you Wallace.
February 13th
Dear Wally,
Blair got invited to the prince's first birthday party, she wore a new dress which she trashed within the first 5 minutes of wearing it, Babies. But I suppose it's good our daughter has friends, tell me something is it sad that my one year ld child has a better social life than me?
Damn you Wallace.
February 14th
Dear Wally
Happy single awareness day! Blair's been making lots of sounds I think she'll be talking soon. God I hope her first word isn't anything rude, I may have been cursing in foreign languages around her.
Blair been painting at school and she loves it. Although she tends to be in very messy clothes when she comes back home. I've spent God know how many hours washing the damn things. Now I know how my mom felt, God I wish I'd have been more appreciative of my mother's mad laundry skills, she could get stains out of anything.
You hear this right, I've become so mundane, the most challenging things in my life are stains.
Damn you Wallace.
March 2nd
Dear Wally
How does a five year old get a 1 year old to be their accomplice when they set a kitchen on fire? I don't think I'm very good at watching more than one child at a time. I don't even know how they got the matches. I'm going to blame this new fascination with flames on you, I mean you love chemistry and she likes fire, that's part of chemistry right? Oh I don't know they kind of blur together.
Damn you Wallace.
March 30th
Dear Wally,
She's talking! She's like a real little person now, like some kind of gibberish speaking monkey. Zee finds it hilarious because Blair keeps on saying curse words and she calls me mama, sometimes you get the odd mil (Milk, for some reason she can't pronounce the K sound).
Her hair's also gotten really long so I think she may need a haircut soon. She looks a bit like a sleeping, pasta sauce covered fire ball right now. To be honest I probably don't look much better, I have to fight her constantly to get her to eat food that isn't fruit or nutella. Sometimes I wonder how she could look so much like you, but act so differently. I love her, but it kind of hurts how much she reminds me of you, the hair, eyes, and the same goofy smile. God I miss that goofy smile.
Damn you Wallace.
April 9th
I got called into the preschool today. You want to know what are daughter decided to do? She and Alaric (her partner in crime/prince of the country) climbed up a tree during recess and refused to come down. I'm wondering how the hell they got up there. It was sooo embarrassing, the queen had to come in and the principal just blamed Blair. The queen wasn't impressed by the principal treating Alaric specially, and I quote "Alaric is friends with Blair I doubt it was all her fault, he can make his own decisions."
The funniest part was the principal's face. She then went on to ask who it was that decided it would be wise to take their eyes off the biggest troublemakers on the planet, he paled considerably then. I almost couldn't hold in my laughter, I got out of the office and burst out in the kind of laughter that makes your ribs hurt. The kind I used to get that with you all the time.
Damn you Wallace.
May 3rd
The stormy season is over and all the snow is gone. It's becoming a glorious summer, the lake gets opened and everyone get the day off for it, I think they have more pointless holidays that get celebrated than any other country in the world. For the Adornovicans it's an excuse to get drunk and party, and boy do these Adornovicans know how to party. I wish I still had time to party but with work and managing Blair ( I literally can't ever take my eyes off her she's always up to something.), I just don't have the time.
Zee's showing and D is being ridiculous about the baby, he's being so overprotective, and Zee has been told she can't do things. D knows about Blair it wouldn't be fair to Zee to keep asking her to hide this, plus if you were here he'd be godfather. He probably wouldn't be freaking out about zee's baby as much either. Actually no scratch that you probably would have told him everything that could go wrong and make him worse, heck he'd probably end up wrapping Zee up in bubble wrap.
Damn you Wallace.
June 12th
Happy Adornovican Independence Day! On this day a few hundred years ago Adornovica became its own country breaking off from France, it involved a bloody battle that was re-enacted today as part of the parade, like I said earlier they like any excuse to go out and get drunk.
They have fireworks, they make Blair giggle with delight, so Nik from next door keeps on getting his dad to light more, they invited us over for a barbecue, Nik's mom is pregnant with their second child.
Makes me wonder, what would we be doing if you were still here? Would we be hosting barbecues, whilst being happily married? Or would we have fallen apart?
What do you think? I think we'd be too stubborn to not try and make this work, We'd make it work for Blair's sake.
Damn you Wallace.
I own nothing but Blair the mischievous baby. god I don't what I would do if my kid was like that. Shout out to writesatmidnight a deviant art artist whose picture I used for the cover. I thought it was fitting. Alright my ducks I love you.