Yesterday Melissa captured this video of Violet singing Twinkle Twinkle. Its great because it shows a side of her that she doesn’t often show to people when she first meets them.
When my mom watched the video she reminded me that we had a video of Jacob singling Twinkle Twinkle when he was around the same age. So I dug up the video. Jacob’s was about 2 months older than Violet is now. It’s amazing to see the similarities and difference between the two of them. One thing I am sure about, I love being able to look back and see how much Jacob has grown. I think I’ll be taking more video in the weeks and months to come.
Today while out Violet picked out a pair of sunglasses. The most amazing thing about it was that she kept them on. So now I wonder if we’ll be able to find a pair that Jacob will keep on this summer.
Continue reading “POD: Glasses”
Today before school Jacob finished up his snuggle up and read homework. I was really impressed at how hard he worked at it. First writing out the titles and then drawing the pictures. When it came time for him to do the sentence, he figured out what he wanted to say and spelled out each word by himself. It was impressive. It was great to see. It seems where ever I look he’s exploring words and language. Even before bed last night the two of use read a level 3 Step Into Reading book together. We took turns on the pages. I love to watch him sound through complicated words. It makes me so proud.
Continue reading “POD: Homework Anyone”
Today we headed out to Nana and Papa’s house with a pie and though I could have taken a picture of another one of Melissa’s delicious home-made pies, I thought this picture of Violet while she played with some of her toys was cuter.
Today we had a family outing to the mall, while there the kids enjoyed some Booster Juice and strolled through the mall. The amazing thing was that Jacob chose it. He had it once in the summer and it seems to have made a big impression.
Tonight I ran out to the Real Canadian Supper store to pick up a few thing. It’s a bit out-of-the-way but we needed Sun Butter and we haven’t seen it in any of the closer super markets. So I found myself walking down the organic aisle looking at the different spreads. They had organic peanut butter, Almond Butter, and of course the sun butter I had come for Sunbutter Sunflower Seed Spread. As I looked I was excited to see another brand of Sunflowers Seed Butter. I thought about getting it, but as I was putting in the cart I thought I’d just take a pick at the label. There it was in Bold letters May contain traces of peanuts or other nuts and seeds. My first thought was that’s just wrong. Why would you want Sunflower spread with nuts. Of course when you look at the name of the company, Nuts To You nut butters, it’s clear that they are about providing organic Nut bet spreads. Though I probably wouldn’t be buying Sun Flower Seed spreads if it wasn’t for Violet’s allergy I guess some people would like it, but for me it’s just another product that we’ll be avoiding.
Continue reading “POD: The Importance of Reading Labels”
Since my readers chose not to comment on my last looking in the mirror post, I figured I’d continue it. So here is this months.
Today we look at another app for sharing photos with the web. Picplz is like Twitter for photos. There are two parts to picplz, the first is a mobile app, for Android, or iOS. With it you can apply effects to your photos and then share them on the web. The second is the picplz site for sharing your photos and managing your connections with other online services and social networks.
The Application on android recently received an update to streamline the interface and improve functionality. When you first launch it you have 6 options,My Network, Interesting, Activity, My Profile Gallery and Camera. My Network and Interesting are for reviewing pictures posted to picplz. My Network being restricted to the users you are following, Interesting on the other hand show recent pictures from anyone on the system. Activity is about the comments, by people you are following. My Profile gives you a preview of what other people see when they look up your picplz account, while Gallery and Camera are for adding pictures to picplz.
Continue reading “Mobile Monday: picplz”
Today we took Violet to Melonhead in Square One to get her first hair cut. So Our picture today is the after shot. The before is in our bonus shots. It’s funny because we just trimmed her hair it’s not as much of a change as when Jacob first sat in the barber’s chair.
Continue reading “POD: First Hair Cut”
Todays picture was captured by Melissa on her way home from work. It seems that I was a bit premature declaring the end to Jacob’s fun in the snow last week. Perhaps tomorrow after noon will have to be a time to dust of his sled and find a hill to have some fun on.
