Category: Fatherhood

Today we had another trip to the local park, and once again I have a picture of one of my children playing. Today ‘It’s Violet on the slide.

Today I came home to find Violet with her hair done up with bows. She wasted no time to showing me that her Rapunzel dolls here was done up too. So I set them up in her chair and took todays picture of the day.

Summer is a time for playing outside so tonight after dinner, our little family headed out to the little playground near our house to play. After playing a little Jacob got out his bike and chased around after some of his friends. I captured him as he rode past me chasing after them.

Today Violet insisted on bringing her baby and stroller to T-Ball. Of course that meant most of the time she ignored it and I had to carry it. Though I did get today’s picture of the day while she walked away from me pushed her baby.

Today we wrapped up the long weekend with Mommy a little under the weather, so to help out, I packed the kids up in the wagon and headed to the local Domino’s to get dinner. Got to love the $5 walk-in pizza deal.

Ever since the family bought me Portal for my birthday Jacob has wanted to play it. I usually had over the control and watch as he tries to figure out the controls and the onscreen puzzles. Today it was just so cute that I had to take a picture of him trying to figure out where to place the portal to get by the puzzle he was on. We’ve only got to games that I let him play on the PlayStation, Portal 2 and Little Big planet. I’m not sure which he prefers, though after watching him again today I wonder if it’s time to get him his first console game.

Today was a double birthday, our nation and the greatest women in our nation share the same birthday. So of course we celebrated the birth of our nation by blowing up a small portion of it. All jokes aside, it was a great day spent with the family and friends. It was so nice to be able to spend the day with Melissa. Usually he has to work on her birthday, but through some weird twist of fate this year she’s home the entire long weekend.

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Today Melissa took the kids on a little adventure, first to lunch at Subway and then to the supermarket. Our picture today was taken at lunch. It seems Violet decided it was time to eat her sandwich like a big girl. Usually she would take it apart and eat it in pieces. Today was different today she ate it like a sandwich, a fact that wasn’t lost on her. In this picture she’s tell mommy that she’s eating sandwich like a big girl.

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If you have read my blog at all tonight, you know that Jacob’s last day of school was today. So it amused me when I got home today to find him working on his homework. It seems that his teacher had given him an exercise book that they worked on in class. It was a My Letter Sounds  Book. Each page has few activities to do, from an action, to colour and of course tracing the letters. Since it wasn’t finished his teacher sent it home to be worked on over the summer. Jacob didn’t waste any time getting into it.

While I write this Jacob is getting for the last day of school. It’s hard to believe that the year has gone by so fast. It seems like yesterday we were giving him his Schultte and walking him to his first class. Of course it was a lot of yesterdays and now we must look to the tomorrows. The biggest question facing Melissa and me is if he should stay where he is, or move to a new school and start french immersion. It’s a hard question on we seem to have been struggling with all year.

Yesterday while picking Jacob up at school Melissa had an impromptu parent teacher conference. They happen fairly often throughout the year and really let us stay on top of how Jacob was doing. It’s also something we’ll lose if we’re putting him on the bus each morning, instead of walking him to school.  Yesterdays conversation was about next year and about who will be teaching Jacob next year, it seems he has a good teacher lined up if he stays, to go with that he’ll be all day, where french immersion is still only half day.

Watching Jacob grow during his first year of school has been great, I am so proud of all he’s learned. That he picked up a chapter book for independent reading is just so wonderful and it makes me question, if I want to add a new language into the mix.

In the end there are pros and cons for either decision, and we want to make the choice that’s right for Jacob, unfortunately without a time machine there is no way to be sure which way will be best for Jacob, all we can do is choose one and help him through any challenges that come his way.