'Home Town': Ben and Erin Napier's Cutest Updates About Daughter Helen

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"Angelina with my ballerina on a cold night = bliss."

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"We've listened to Yoshimi battle the robots 16 times since she woke up."

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"Her latest work, commissioned by uncle Jesse and aunt Lauren."

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"Every high school boy wants a cute girl to wear his letterman jacket, last night, I had 2 of them using mine as a blanket. We watched the parade from our old loft as usual.

"The parade was shorter, the crowd was much smaller than usual, there wasn't a pancake breakfast to kick the day off, but we had hot cider while watching marching bands and even old HoHo was there. Merry christmas, y'all."

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Low key Thanksgiving, but Helen's keeping it formal (thanks for her dress, [Well Dressed Wolf] [Wildling by Well Dressed Wolf]. She tells me she's NEVER TAKING IT OFF.)"

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Yesterday morning, I introduced Helen to the [Macys] Thanksgiving Day Parade. She is in LOVE! Her favorite parts were [Snoopy] and the [NYPD] horses. One of my new life goals is to take her to NYC and watch the parade from a cool vantage point. Anybody know of a cool apartment on the route? Although, watching it snuggled up with her on the couch in her [The Rockettes] jammies is pretty great, too."

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"Mommy isn't the only one who likes coloring houses. Do y'all recognize this one?"

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"Lately I find myself daydreaming about 2019 and all that we took for granted. I wish I could go back and spend one normal day hugging my friends and crew without thinking twice. I wish Helen could play in a park and make new friends and lick the leftover Halloween Dum Dum stickiness from her fingers without the constant low grade worry about the last time she washed her hands. I wish my grandmother was still here.

"I wish I never worried when the people I love had a sniffle or sneeze, especially our parents and aunts and uncles. I miss John Prine and the thrill of visits to New York City on airplanes. I miss our church feeling alive and busy and the safety of Sunday school classrooms. It all felt temporary for so many months, but it's beginning to feel like part of me now, this thing I'm carrying that's too heavy. I just miss the normal and am feeling the grief in it lately. But I know y'all do too. And I guess there's some comfort in that."