Week 85 — livin’ la beta loca

• 3rd and final short week in a row this week 😅 who knows how I am going to go with working 5 day weeks after all this! I had been working half-ish days on Sundays over those 3 weeks to do some maintenance things at work, so kinda balances out, I guess.
• I have been using the watch and iOS 26 betas over the last week or so. I knew going in they would be super rough (and they are). I am super interested to see how they polish this release, which parts they dial back, which parts they pull. Life is also too short to not play with the cool things (even if they are half baked), the battery drain and sluggish performance will be long forgotten by the time GM 1 comes around. The glass material is really nice, but I am way more drawn to it than the content it is over. Maybe that will fade when it is no longer new and interesting, but right now, I am spending way too much time slowly moving content below the buttons to see the effects of the material.
• We started Crumpet on seisure medication a couple of weeks back because her seisures were becoming more and more frequent (one every 5 weeks or so). It has been a while now, and she has been faring pretty well. She hasn’t had any of the side effects of the medication which is heartening and her liver function seems to have remained the same.
• Sebastian has started saying “mama” and “baba” which melts my heart every damn time. I am not sure how much intention there is behind it at 8 months, but if we go to him / pay attention to him whenever he says it, maybe that’ll build a link?
• I went to a perinatal wellbeing session for partners during the week. I was sceptical going in (in terms of how well the session would go to get participation) but it was a really lovely time. We had a few minutes to quickly chat about our experiences with our neighbours and I reckon the discussions could have gone on for 30 mins easily. A stark contrast to the participation of the pre-birth classes 😅