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Niko, Sumo, and I headed up to San Francisco yesterday. It is amazing the infrastructure that comes with a baby and a dog. It isn’t that it necessarily takes that much longer to put together, but it is a crap load of stuff.

Going to the city before Niko & Sumo

• Shower
• Grab jacket
• Find keys
• Get in the car
• Leave for the city

Going to the city with Niko and Sumo

• Find bouncy seat (where the heck did I leave it?), put Niko in the bouncy seat, bring it into bathroom, shower while making funny noises to entertain the boy
• Fill bottles with formula
• Pack a change of cloths (just in case)
• Grab a bunch of diapers
• Throw in a few toys
• Find Sumo’s leash
• Go back and grab pajamas for Niko in case we stay late
• Remember that Niko eats baby food now — go find peas and carrots
• Get a coat and hat for Niko
• Pack Sumo’s dinner
• Grab some treats for Sumo
• Find my jacket
• Get the baby bjorn for walking
• Collect a couple back-up pacifiers
• Gather all of it together, hook the dog (on leash) to my belt, grab the boy
• Walk out door looking like a circus clown juggling way to many things while Sumo runs in circles around us, wrapping the leash around my legs
• Get halfway to the car and realize I forgot the keys
• Wonder if it is illegal to put the boy in the car and then go get the keys in the house
• Decide not to chance it
• Stumble back into the house, find the keys
• Realize I can’t lock the door AND hold everything
• Wonder if I could just leave the door unlocked
• Decide not to chance it
• Put everything down on the porch, lock door
• Realize Sumo has escaped and is running down the sidewalk after a walker
• Chase down Sumo
• Get the boy into the car seat and Sumo into car
• Leave for the city

And all of that is with a pre-packed diaper bag.

We made it regardless and had a great day despite the fact that we watched the Michigan basketball team squander a lead to #1 Ohio State. In the evening we hung out with JJ and Sam at their house. Niko went to bed in their guest room while we had adult dinner.