Category: Fatherhood

Once again my picture of the day is Jacob at the computer. I didn’t really plan this, it’s just that when we sat down for computer time he navigated to TVOKids.com and to the The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog game. He’s played it before but tonight was different. Tonight he wasn’t asking me to ready every chat box that popped up. He would sound out the words or when he’d stumble ask for help. But it was mostly him. It was amazing to see. I’ve know for a while that he was picking up reading but it’s the first time I’ve seen him using it for something more than just to read. Here he was using it to solve problems. It was a proud moment for this father.

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Today’s picture is of Violet’s stuffed Monkey, relaxing in her dolls stroller. Our little Violet loves her dolls and stuffed animals. She pushes them in her stroller or tries to put diapers on them. She’ll even lay them down and cover them with a blanket and say ‘shhh’, like she’s putting them to bed. I’m not sure if I’d seen the Monkey in the stroller before today, but it was there a lot today.

I’m not sure if the picture really does Jacob’s shirt justice, but I couldn’t resist this as the picture of the day. You see when Jacob came home from school she shirt was covered in paint. The teach told my mom who picked up our little guy that he wearing a smock… it was just backwards.

Tonight Jacob did the cutest thing. For some reason he wanted to do the dishes. So I set him up at the sink and let him at it. He did a pretty good job but after about a half a sink he’d had enough. I think I might be able to get a complete sink next time 😉

Today our little family headed out to do a little shopping. While there Violet showed us what she wants for christmas. Perhaps we’ll let Santa know so he can put it under the tree.

Today Melissa and I spent the evening putting together Halloween bags for the kids of Jacob class. It seems so strange, its times like this that make me really think about how fast my little guy is growing up.

Today was photo day, it’s also the one day of the week that I take Jacob to school. So on the way to school I snapped this picture of Jacob to send to Melissa to show her that Jacob would be ready to go in front of the camera.

Yesterday at school the kids in the playground were playing with something called Silly Bandz, they are little plastic wristbands that are also shapes. Jacob really wanted to get some of his own, so this morning mommy took the kids on a quest for them. Unfortunately they were sold out. So Nan took the search to more stores, but also came back empty-handed. Then it was time for Daddy to come to the rescue. On my way home I stopped off at a Mastermind that had some in stock. I got a few sets, but Jacob’s instant favourite was the alphabet.

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Today our little angel got her hands on one of Jacob’s school markers. The results weren’t pretty, though at times it was hard not to giggle, specially when the bath water turned blue while cleaning her up, I thought I was in an episode of Max and Ruby. We’re thinking we might have to pack the markers completely away, Jacob’s just to prone to leave them out after he’s done colouring with them.

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Today at Jacob’s skating lesson Violet continued her quest to get on the ice. I’m thinking we really need to find her a pair of skates.