I very much enjoy Spy's interaction with his spawn. You've made them at once very revolting and very endearing, which, I imagine, is an opinion shared by Spy himself, and his unenthusiastic venture into motherhood is at once very entertaining, and very true to his character. Anyway, somewhere in this chapter there was a paragraph mentioning how unnatural it is for the Spy's l'il chirruns to be so independent so soon. Short to nonexistent periods of infant dependency are actually the norm in animals. Octopodes in particular, although guarded quite closely as eggs, receive no care whatsoever from their parents once they've hatched. They're capable of doing all the same things an adult can do, albeit on a smaller and more easily-squashed scale, from the moment they come out of the egg. The fact that Spy's offspring can't hunt or defend themselves and have difficulty feeding on their own seems like a plenty reasonable balance between human and octopus reproductive strategies, and quite natural. It's fine if Spy sees things differently, but as an author you might want to distinguish between how nature works and how Spy thinks nature works.