She is on the play mat, looking at the ceiling. He is above her, looking at the app. It says eighty-third percentile. It says he’s crushing it. She looks up at him with her cobalt shade of blue eyes, the same way she looks at the ceiling. He scrolls down.

Robin Koczerginski is a Toronto-based writer. He is completing a memoir on parenting his daughter, born with a genetic condition deemed “incompatible with life”. He lives with his partner and their two daughters.