I wanted to write you regularly as your grew up. To mark big days in your life, but each time a day I want to mark with a letter comes the words don’t. That ends today. Today you turn 5. By baby girl is growing up. At times I can see the big girl shining through, at others you are still my baby girl who needs her daddy. I want you to know that I love you I will always love and though you grow up you will still be my baby girl.
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Today we have a collage from Hockey Practice at the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence. On the right is Jacob’s practice, the left is the Toronto Maple Leafs. The kids usually practice early on Sundays, but today the Leafs wanted to practice before heading on their western road trip so the practice got moved to Rink 3 at 10:30am. When we arrived the Leafs were still practicing so I took a few pictures before taking Jacob in to get ready for his practice.
Today we have a picture of Jacob Watching Violets Hockey game.
Today we have a picture of Violets Lego creation. When she built-in she was so proud of it. She even covered it up so that she could surprise Nana with it It was so cute I thought that I would use it for today’s picture of the day.
It’s Saturday and that means hockey pictures. Today we have a picture of Violet taking the faceoff during her game today. I love watching her play hockey, she gives it her all from the puck drop till the final buzzer. Today was no exception.
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Jacob loves Lego, and for Christmas he got a few sets. Last night he opened up his first big set, the LEGO Legends of Chima The Lion CHI Temple. I love watching how excited he gets as he builds each part. I’m loving the time we spend together working on Lego, and with over 1200 pieces it’s going to take us a few days to build it all.
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School is back and with it each morning the kids need lunches. So today I put together what we call a tray lunch, and packed it up. Their lunch boxes came back empty so I guess they liked it.
Today Melissa and Violet made some banana bread, it was fun to watch the two of them bake. I find it funny how much Violet wanted to help, but when it was time taste the finished product she didn’t have any. Still the rest of the family really enjoyed our pieces of Banana Bread.
Today was our first day of Hockey in the new year. Both kids were excited to be back, and I was too. Mostly, I wasn’t a fan of the 8:50 start for Jacob’s game. Of course it could have been worse. He has some 7am games coming up. Ever since Jacob took to the ice for his first game 2 and a half years ago, I’ve been amazed by home much he improved week to week. With Violet its seems like that process has been accelerated, I can’t wait to see how well she’ll be doing as the season comes to an end in a few months. It really is a joy to head to the rink each week to watch how hard they try and how much they improve. Our picture of the day is of Melissa talking to Violet before the game.
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Today after dinner and dishes all Violet wanted to do was make something with the Kraft Dinner box. So out came one of our jugs of crafting supplies and she went to work. I didn’t get any pictures of the process today but I did get one of her final creation. Well not final, she never added the hair she wanted. Perhaps tomorrow she’ll get a chance to do that.
