Today we headed to Mastermind Toys with the kids, looking for inspirations for little miss Violet’s birthday next week. Both the kids love that going there, they always seem to find new toys to interest them. Today Jacob surprised me though, after first looking at some Snap Circuits and other science toys he found the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid books. He looked over the selection of books he picked one and found a place to sit down and started to read. For the rest of the time in the store, that’s where he was. I just hope we can find more books to capture his imagination.
Tonight we headed to party city for some birthday planning. With Violet’s birthday just over a week away we have a lot of details to iron out. Today we were just looking, we’ll be picking balloons for our birthday diva closer to the big day.
We were setting up Violets room to surprise her when she got home. Ruby just had to be a part of it. First posing for a picture that showed off the new room. She also had to be first to try the new bedding, though in the end it wasn’t the same without Violet
Today was the kids first game back after the Christmas break. It was fun to be back at the MasterCard Centre watching the kids play.
Today we have a different sort of Ruby picture. Today while we were doing some reorganizing in Violet’s room, Ruby joined us. Before we knew it she was under the bed. we tried to capture the moment, this was the best shot we got. If I were to tell the full story, Ruby was just trying to help out. Violet was under their picking up some of her things that had accumulated under her bed. In the end Ruby did come out with something, so I guess she did help.
Yesterday after Jacob’s swimming lesson we headed to Toys-R-us so the kids could spend their Christmas Gift-cards. so today I thought it would be fun to share a picture of Violets little Love Bird. Perhaps in the coming days I’ll share pictures of some of the other things they bought in the coming day.
Today we got together with our family to celebrate the season. It was a fun time, and as always the kids (and parents) had a good time.
Today we have a collage of pictures I took of the kids as they skated around the Ice path at Sir Samuel Smith park. It was a fun outing, though by the end of it was really snowing.
With Melissa back at work I find dinner prep resting on just me. Finding a variety of food that the kids will eat can be a bit of a challenge. Tonight we had BBQ pork chops with a side of pasta and veggie (peas and carrots(. They both seemed to enjoy it, though Violet wanted more pasta than pork chops.
Over the last few weeks I’ve watched my social media feeds be filled up with photo and video montages of the year that was. What once was only done by companies and big organizations is now available to every who uses social media, with a few clicks of the mouse the year that was is summed up in images and or video. It’s a cool feature, but it relies on you sharing your year with your social networks. It also has the problem that just because you shared it doesn’t mean you want to have it thrown in your face again.
When I saw the first people posting their year in review I went to my Facebook to see what a great year I had, only to be greeted by a disappointing trip through the year in photos. My first thought was how could this be, I mean I post a picture every day, how can that be all that Facebook felt was worth remembering. Of course then it hit me, I don’t share my photos on Facebook, I share them on my blog and share my blog to Facebook. Meaning Facebook doesn’t see my photos, just my posts, and it didn’t include posts in the year in review. Then just a couple of days later my phone buzzed, I had a new Auto awesome, it was Google’s turn to try to sum up my year. So I knew they would do better than Facebook, I use the Google plus images to back up all my photos, so I knew Google had access to a lot of images from the year. And it did a great job, sure it included some images that I wouldn’t want to share publicly, mostly from school trips and birthday parties, but it felt like it did a good job of capturing the year. Last year I took the time to tweak it and created something that I was proud to share, 2013 The Movie.
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