Category: Family

From Picture of the Day 2013

Tonight Melissa slaved away in the kitchen making snack for Violet’s preschool tomorrow. The great thing about when Melissa bakes is I get to sample it. Violet’s preschool is one lucky class.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Once again Violet showed me that her favourite toy is a simple cardboard box. I was amazed at how much she played with the small box, she tried to make it a club house out of it. Of course it was barely bigger then her so it was a bit of a challenge.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Today at lunch I captured this picture of Jacob as he worked on a crossword with his Nan. It amazes me how much he loves trying to solve them. He did a pretty good job at it, though some of the clues were above him. Though I’m sure it wont be long before he can do it on his own.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Every once in a while I will print some colouring sheets out for the kids. Today I brought home some Phineas And Ferb sheets for Jacob and a Couple of Snow White for Violet. I tried to get a picture of them both colouring but they just wouldn’t sit still long enough. So for today’s picture of the day we have Violet colouring away.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Today I thought I’d share the art project from Violet’s birthday. Melissa managed to get every kid at the party to do hand prints on canvas. These are my kids hands. It’s a great keep sake, that will always remind me of my kids when they were young, and a great day that we celebrated Violet growing up.

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Today at hockey was Jacob’s turn between the pipes. I would like to say my little guy had himself a shutout, but between his lake of experience as a goalie and his team playing short-handed on both lines, it was far from a shutout. It was a good game though, he tried hard the entire game, paid attention to the play and tried to stay with the puck as it went behind the net. He wasn’t always fast enough, but he tried. It’s the biggest improvement in his game this year, he seems to try for the entire game, even when it’s not going his way.

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This afternoon as the snow was coming down Jacob wanted to do just one thing, get out and shovel it. So out he went for close to half an hour shoveling away. I think it wasn’t till he realized that areas he’d already shoveled where becoming covered again that he finally had enough. It was great to watch, and as with all such moments these day’s I was out with my phone capturing pictures.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Today I have a picture of Violet playing with her expanded princess crew. You might remember Last year I posted a picture of Violet’s Princess Crew. After Christmas and her birthday it’s expanded. When I saw her playing with them I thought it would make a good picture. So I slipped in trying to take a picture before she realized that I was there, and could stop me. It turns out that tonight she liked me taking photos, and even took time to pose them for me.

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I should write a long prose about how impressed I am with my little girls printing ability, but It’s been a long day and I’m not really up for it. I have to say though, this is the first time that I’ve seen Violet truly write her own name, I guess the kindergarten enrichment class is paying off.

From Picture of the Day 2013

One of the gifts we got Violet for her birthday was a Doctor Dress-up kit, that had a white coat and scrubs. Both kids loved they doctors outfit and spent Sunday dressed up as doctors playing. Violet wore the white coat and Jacob wore the scrubs. Two things amazed me as I watched them play. The first is that Violet has more or less ‘given’ Jacob the scrubs to ware, second is that over the last day I’ve seen Jacob dressed more in the scrubs then in regular clothes. So I wonder if today’s picture of the day is predicting a possible future career for my little man.