Today I thought I’d share a picture of some of Violets babies. In the picture starting from the left is Bear, Kai-Lan, Foo Foo, Abby, Emma and Katie. Missing are the ones she’s sleeping with, her glow worm and second bunny Bunny. Usually Foo Foo and Kai-Lan are in her crib too, but some how they made it to the living room today. While I was doing the evening clean-up I was surprised to see so many down stairs. So I did a photo shoot.
She knows each of her babies, though I’m not sure if she can tell Abby and Emma apart yet, I’m not sure I can. One of the cutest things is when she takes the Abby’s hat off and then brings them over to you to put them back on. They never stay on more then a couple of minutes. I think I’ll have to try to get some video of her playing with her babies. After all she loves her little ones and often picks them up and gives them hugs and kisses.
Tonight our dinner was to be Grill cheese and soup. The grill cheese turned out just fine, but the soup not so much. It was a Knorr Cream of Broccoli, usually a really nice soup. The problem tonight was that while cooking it I let it burn. So though it looked good it tasted bad. I should have just BBQed something, I’m much better at cooking over an open flame.
Today was a day for Melissa and I to relax and enjoy one of our Christmas presents. Tickets to Rent and a gift card to Bâton Rouge. The show was at 1, and it was great. It’s the second time Melissa and I have got tickets for Rent. The first time was the Canadian Tour of Rent and though we enjoyed it some of the casting didn’t work for us. This time it was the Rent The Broadway Tour, with a number of actors who did the show on Broadway, including to of the original cast. It was a much better show.
Dinner afterwords was great, a great cap to a great afternoon and worked out to be a great way to relax after all the hard work we had putting together Violet’s birthday. Of course going to a show like that makes us wish we could get out to more of them. We’re hoping to make getting out to the theatre more then a bi-yearly event. Currently there are 3 shows we really want to come back to Toronto so that we can see them, Wicked, Les Misérables and Avenue Q.
Continue reading “Project 365-024: A Show and Dinner”
Today marks a pretty big milestone for you my little princess, you are 1. Its been 4 months since I wrote you a letter and now like then you are going through some big changes. You are on the verge of walking, starting to try and climb stairs and learning to drink from a cup, both sippy and regular. It’s quite a lot for a little girl to handle. On top of that Mommy is going to start working again soon. So you’re going to be seeing less of her. She still loves you and will be there for you.
As I write this, I think back to the past year. About how much you have grown in just 12 short months. Last night I peeked into your crib while you were sleeping, You looked so peaceful. Watching you grow is amazing, you are like your brother in so many was, but also so different. Seeing you point at things and try to sign is what being a parent is all about.
I want to talk to you about walking. It’s not that hard or scary and you will love how much faster you are able to get around. You just need to stop worrying about falling and go for it. I watch as you move around the room holding on to different things. Every once and a while you look out away from the supports and think about taking a step, but then you sit down and crawl to what ever caught your attention. You just need to try to walk. I know you can, you have taken a few steps for both Mommy and me, so keep trying you’ll get it soon. A quick note about the stairs. I know when you see mommy or me walk up them you want to follow. I’ve seen you try, but they can be tricky. So if you want to learn, make sure Mommy or me are there with you when you try?
I just want you to remember that I’ll always be here for you.
Love Daddy
Tomorrow my little girl turns one. I can’t believe it. Tonight I decided to take a picture of some of Violets presents before Melissa rapped them up. We got our little cupcake a pair of Earrings and her first Jewellery Box.
One of the biggest fears about moving to the cloud is how do you backup your data. The data sits on someone else’s server and usually there is no easy way for you to backup that data. You are at the mercy of the service provider to backup your data and if they go under, cancel your account or just don’t have a backup strategy you could be out of luck That’s where Backupify comes in. Backupify is a service that allows you to backup your different cloud based services. You can backup the data to your own Amazon S3 account, or just use Backupify’s account. This is great for people who want to make sure that there important files are in more then one place.
Setup is simple, after creating your account you are given a list of service they support. You select the service you want to back up, enter your credentials and away it goes. Where ever possible it uses Oath to authenticate so that you don’t have to trust backupify with your password. Though there are some services that don’t support this. Once the service is registered it will backup, usually in the next 24 hours.
Continue reading “Cloud Gazing: Backupify”
For the last 3 week I have felt a little lost, my phone is broken and So I don’t have access to all things I had started to take for granted. I miss having access to my E-Mail, Calendar, Twitter, and Evernotes. I have been using Melissa’s phone, but its not the same. I don’t want to install my applications to her phone or setup my email accounts. So I have been making do, mostly by being disconnected. Of course I will loose even the limited connection when Melissa goes back to work in the coming weeks.
So the solution is obvious, get a new phone. There are 3 things keeping me from that, first my contract still has 13 months left so the deals I can get for new hardware is limited, Second is now is not the time for the added expense of a new phone. Third I don’t know what phone to get. Its probably the single biggest issue I face. Deals can be negotiated, money and can be found, but I don’t know what phone I want. I like the LG IQ, but its a resistive touch screen (Best with Stylus) and running Windows Mobile. The HTC Hero is cool but I really want a hardware keyboard. I think I want the Motorola Droid or Millstone as it will be called when it comes to Telus, I just don’t know how long I’ll have to wait. I have considered just buying a regular phone that I could use till I knew what phone I wanted and had a deal that made it worth getting. I hope to have my phone situation figured out by the end of the month. When I do I’m sure I’ll be sharing a new gadget with my readers.
Violet tries out one of Jacobs favourite new toys. She didn’t quite get it, but it was fun to watch her try. Jacob was surprisingly ok with her playing with it. Of course it was a pretty short little photo shoot, there is only so long I could keep Jacob away from his toy. But it was a fun moment, and I was really glad that Jacob was able to share, even though it was only for a few minutes.
Continue reading “Project 365-010: Violet Plays”
Today is a big day for my personal blog. I have posted everyday for the last 100 days. That’s something in my 4 yours of blogging I have never managed before. I had done a month here or there, but never 100 days, that’s over three months. That’s something I’m proud of. To be fair not all my posts were great, but every day I managed to sit down and find something to post. For me this is the hardest thing about blogging, finding something to write about. That’s one of the great surprises I’ve found with the 365 Challenge, Once I have my picture taken I have something to write about every day. One casualty of Project 365 is Wordless Wednesday. It seems silly to have a post dedicated to just pictures when I’ll be posting a new picture every day.
Back in December when I first figured out when I’d reach the 100th day of posting I planned on scaling back my posts. Move to an easier 3 or 4 posts a week, but today I know that’s not what is going to happen. My plan is to have 12 or more posts a week. What that’ll mean for my readers is I’ll have two types of posts, my regular posts and my Project 365 Posts. My Regular posts will go online Monday through Friday between 8am and 10am. The Project 365 posts will go up between 9pm and midnight every day of the week. I might post regular posts on the weekends too, but they aren’t in the plan. I’m hoping this will keep me posting going forward and prevent this from just being a blog for my Project 365 posts.
