Category: Fatherhood

From Pictures of the Day 2012

This evening Melissa made some Christmas Rice Crispy squares for Violet’s Pre-School. Tomorrow is her duty day and she’s the snack parent. So she felt the personal touch would be good for the little ones. I would like to say I helped, but all I did was hold the pot while she scooped them into the tray.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Tonight we had our Christmas dinner with some of our closest friends. There was 6 adults and 5 kids so it was a bit of a full house. It was a great day of food, family and friends. One thing Melissa and I often find after events our family attends is that we didn’t get a picture of us all together. Though as I look at today’s picture of the day and think back over the last few months, I think we’ve finally gotten in the habit of it of rangling the kids in and posing for a picture.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Today Melissa and Violet headed out for an evening with our friend Susanne, Violet’s God mother. That left me and Jacob to decided what we wanted to do, and after a some pizza at Nana and Papa’s we headed down to the Ice Path for an evening skate. It’s the first time we’ve gotten out to a skate this year. Jacob loves skating around the figure 8. I’m not sure if it’s the shape or that he doesn’t have to ware any equipment other than his helmet while he skates.  One thing I noticed today is that I’m pretty sure Jacob’s now a better skater them me, I still can go faster than him, but he’s much more confident on the ice and before long he’ll be skating circles around me.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Yesterday Violet had her surgery, and I used a collage of some of the day’s pictures for my picture of the day. Today I thought I’d take a different sort of look at the day. We have a picture of the two bracelets she wore throughout the day.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Today Violet headed into the operating room to have her tonsils and adenoids removed. It was a long day with us arriving at the hospital around 6:30am and not leaving till after 6:30pm. Watching my little girl go off with the nurse was harder than I expected, then to top it off the surgery seemed to take longer then we expected. Of course that was probably in our minds and everything went smoothly. There were some rough patches, but she’s home now and seems to be mostly herself. Tough she’s clearly still in a lot of pain at times. Of course spending the day at the hospital kept me from finishing off my Monday Post for today. There were a few minutes where I tried to write it up I just couldn’t focus. So unfortunately you’ll have to wait till next Monday for another installment of my Mobile Monday posts.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

This afternoon it was just me and the kids and when they wanted a snack I put these plats together for them. It was a slow day for photo’s so I guess it’ll do as my picture of the day.

Last night on my way to bed I stood and watched my little girl sleeping.  As I watched her was two thoughts com into my mind,  one she doesn’t look herself without her hair and to how precious she is to me. As I stood there I heard her little snores and was reminded about Monday,  surgery day.  The day they take away her snores.

I am not sure how much of it she understands,  all I am sure of is that she is scared,  she said to me the other day that she likes her snores and doesn’t want them to be taken away.  She was also somewhat shy and withdrawn during our tour on Wednesday when the nurses were talking about any of the real medical stuff. While was interested in walking around the hospital and enjoyed doing the hair of one of the nurses, but she wouldn’t put on the finger heart rate monitor or the blood pressure cuff. Of course she isn’t the only one who is nervous, and as I right this I’m starting to realize that I’m more nervous then I thought I would be. It’s my job to protect her and on Monday when she goes with the nurses into the operating there will be nothing I can do for her. She will be in the doctors hands. It’s a scary thought. We thought this procedure through when the doctor first suggested it, we know it’s the right thing for my little girl. I know it will work out in the end, but this will probably be the most painful thing she will experience in her young life and I came supposed to just send her to it with a smile on my face?

Continue reading “Fatherhood Friday: Saying goodbye to snores”

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Today was skating day for the kids, Violet’s in learn to skate and Jacob has hockey skills. The kids love there Thursday nights skating with Nana and Papa. Afterwards Violet showed them that she’s ready to play hockey by pulling Jacob’s hockey bag into the house.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

Today the kids and I headed to Trillium Hospital for a pre-op tour for Violet’s coming surgery to remove her tonsils and adenoids. I took this picture as we waited for the tour to begin. Violet was colouring and Jacob was trying to remember and write some of the french words he’s learned this year at school. The tour itself was interesting, Violet was her shy self, though she did seem to come out of her shell once in a while. She wouldn’t put the oxygen monitor  on her finger, or the blood presser cuff. She did put a cuff on one of the nurses. When it came time to go on the tour she was at the front of the group and was very interested. what I’m not sure if it will help her when it times to go in on monday for the actual surgery.

From Pictures of the Day 2012

For a picture of the day I have a little collage of Violet I took on the way home from pre-school. As we walked she picked up a stick and started to play it like a flute. It’s not the first time she’s did it, but it was so cute I had to capture it. I just wish I’d grabbed a video so you could have heard her song.