This week was Jacob’s Christmas concert, it’s the first one that Melissa missed. The school did a Nativity play, with kids from different grades all having roles and the classes taking turns signing. It’s always fun to watch the littler kids sing there songs. One of the kindergarten classes did Little drummer boy and though there singing wasn’t perfect the enthusiasm they showed for the drumming was commendable. Usually I would have taken more pictures of the event that I could have shared, but with out Melissa being there I really wanted to make sure I captured Jacob’s performance on video.
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Tomorrow is Jacob’s last day of school for 2012, so tonight Melissa put together a little goodie bag for him to take to his classmates tomorrow. They are just so cute I had to use one for my picture of the day.
This evening I tucked the kids into bed at the usual bed time around 8:30 pm, and I thought they had gone to sleep. It turns out that my boy had fallen asleep, but my daughter decided that she wasn’t ready for sleep. I’m not sure what inspired her to dress up with her back pack and home-made binoculars, I guess she was exploring. but as you can see the only thing she found was sleep.
This morning when we got up we found our little Elf on the Shelf trying to catch our fish Rapunzel. It seems he fashioned a fishing rod with a stick some ribbon and a paper clip. The though of the elf eating our fish scared violet so much that this afternoon that she carefully reached over and snatched the rod from his hands and threw it in the garbage. She was quite proud that she did it without touching Jingles.
This evening Melissa made some Christmas Rice Crispy squares for Violet’s Pre-School. Tomorrow is her duty day and she’s the snack parent. So she felt the personal touch would be good for the little ones. I would like to say I helped, but all I did was hold the pot while she scooped them into the tray.
Today I thought I’d share and apps that tries to keep my data usage in line. My current wireless plan only includes 500MB of data which means that if I’m not careful I can easily use more than that in a month. So having an app like
My Data Manager is a must. The apps notification widget shows a quick overview of your current data uses, for Mobile and WiFi. You can configure it to include Roaming data, but as I don’t Roam I have removed it. When you launch the application you are provided with a summary of your current plans usage, forecast of how much data you’ll use this cycle, today’s usage, amount remaining for the day. The important number for me is the Data Remaining, It averages your data for the remainder of your cycle, giving you a target if you want to get back on track.
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Tonight Melissa and I headed out to our local theater to watch the first installment of the Hobbit. I loved the movie and Melissa seemed to enjoy herself too. Melissa snapped today’s picture of the day as we waited for the movie to start. Now I think I have to dust off my copy of the Hobbit and see what was in the book at what as added by Peter Jackson.
Tonight we had our Christmas dinner with some of our closest friends. There was 6 adults and 5 kids so it was a bit of a full house. It was a great day of food, family and friends. One thing Melissa and I often find after events our family attends is that we didn’t get a picture of us all together. Though as I look at today’s picture of the day and think back over the last few months, I think we’ve finally gotten in the habit of it of rangling the kids in and posing for a picture.
Today Melissa and Violet headed out for an evening with our friend Susanne, Violet’s God mother. That left me and Jacob to decided what we wanted to do, and after a some pizza at Nana and Papa’s we headed down to the Ice Path for an evening skate. It’s the first time we’ve gotten out to a skate this year. Jacob loves skating around the figure 8. I’m not sure if it’s the shape or that he doesn’t have to ware any equipment other than his helmet while he skates. One thing I noticed today is that I’m pretty sure Jacob’s now a better skater them me, I still can go faster than him, but he’s much more confident on the ice and before long he’ll be skating circles around me.
It’s been a long week, first the waiting, followed by the surgery and the finally the recovery. The surgery went well, no surprises. She was slow to drink after the surgery, but she did manage to drink, with the help of magic fairly wings. It was hard watching her lay in bed, obviously in pain, but not being able to help her, but she pulled through it and watching some of the other kids who had their tonsils out that morning, she handled it amazingly.
Watching her the last couple of nights she seems almost like her normal self, singing along with Sofia the First, then something happens she swallows and she feels the pain, and comes running to mommy or daddy for comforting. It’s hard to watch her go through it. She’s been refusing Tylenol more often than taking it, so there isn’t much more we can do for the pain. Except offer it when she’s in discomfort or perhaps some ice water or a frozen treat. Still each morning she wakes up more herself and ready to face the day.
Through all of this Jacob has been a great big brother, worrying about his little sister and helping out where he can. Of course he seems to me having a little bit of an asthma attack over the last few days, highlighting the failure of our asthma clinic to get back to us for an appointment since the summer. Of course now that Jacob’s getting sick Melissa called the patient advocacy office and we were contacted within a few hours by the clinic. The good thing was he still had puffers on file at the pharmacy so at least we can treat him till he can get to an appointment next week. We’re hopeful that we wont have a serious asthma attack any time soon, one trip to the hospital is enough for the holiday season.
