Today was the second day that I cycled to work, it has always seemed like a daunting task, because the trip seems like it’s entirely up hill. It’s a gradual slop most of the time, but except for a few place on the ride home I’m heading up hill. Of course that means the ride home is mostly down hill, so it kind of evens out. One nice thing about the ride home is I can take the Humber trail, it adds about 2 km to the trip if I follow it the entire way to the Lakeshore, but it’s a much more picturesque route.
One of the Jacob’s favorite meals is tacos, I think it’s because we let him put them together himself. A week doesn’t go by when he doesn’t ask for them. Of course we don’t have them every week, so when we do it’s still kinda special. Tonight was one of those nights. Of course as I look over the picture I am reminded that food rarely looks as good in the picture as in real life.
Last week we went to a picnic with Melissa’s mom family at Heart lake conservation area. I wrote of it last Saturday when I used a picture of a frog that one of the little boys had caught as my picture of the day. Today I took some time to go through the pictures and choose some to share. I will do the same for yesterday’s picnic sometime this week.
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Today we packed up the kids, a couple of coolers, and headed out to the Toronto Island for a picnic with friends. The kids seemed to like the ferry ride. When we got to the island we found some picnic tables and BBQ’d up some hot dogs. After the food the kids had some fun chasing the growing number of ducks around our picnic tables. It was good fun for the little ones. In our picture of the day, Jacob is telling Sofia and Violet not to chase the birds. Then he runs past them after the birds. In a day of great moments and with over 500 pictures on the two camera’s Melissa and I brought, this stood out as a great choice for Picture of the day. There is a lot more I could say about our day, including our brief trip to Centre Ville but that’ll have to wait. I’ll see about putting together something more with more of the photos in the next couple of days… Of course I should probably write-up last week picnic first. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll get a chance to catch up on some of my blogging.
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Tonight we went for dinner at Montana’s, a restaurant we go to regularly. One we think of as Nut free, except for the Ice Cream. But now we find ourselves questioning that. See when we got home Violet had to large welts on her legs. Now they could have come from the shopping cart at either Costco or Sobeys. Of course during dinner she was acting a little uncomfortable in her chair, so much so we thought she might have a full diaper but changing that didn’t seem to help. So we’re left wondering what caused the welts and how to protect out little cupcake in the future. The minimum I think is that we’re going to have to start cleaning off any chairs or carts, probably with something stronger than our diaper wipes…
On a night where my run was filled with little complications, from a light rain to failure of my run tracking software it seems only fitting that I showcase one of the things that didn’t go wrong tonight. My running belt with water bottle and MP3/Cell phone pocket. Melissa got this for me for my birthday, when it became clear that I would be taking up running for real. It’s served me well but unless I can get some software to give me all audio updates I think I’ll be looking for an alternative place to store my phone.
Lately Violet has taken a real interest in the ice at Jacob’s skating lessons. Every week she tries to get on the ice, and gets upset when I stop her. She really wants be on the ice and as soon as we find skates that fit her small feet and she turns 2, we’ll get her out there.
Tonight Jacob and I were at nana and papa’s house. While there Jacob went for a swim, and I looked into an old computer to see if it could be fixed. I couldn’t help but snap a few shots of Jacob in the water
Tonight was trivia night, a time to sit around the pub and use all that useless knowlege I’ve collected over the years. I have ever been great at trivia, I’ve had good and bad weeks. Ever since I stopped playing regularly I seem to have more bad. Though today we has a round that was perfect for me. The handout is my picture of the day. children’s book characters, they gave use the number and we had to supply the name. There was only a few that I didn’t know. Of course that included mine (#1 Captain Under-pants). We took that round 8 to 5 but it wasn’t enough. Our short-handed squad lost 67-63.
Today was a day of running around housework. Through it all the kids were great. Our picture is of the kids playing at one of our stops.
