Category: Picture of the Day

POD: Passed out Explorer

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From Pictures of the Day 2012

This evening I tucked the kids into bed at the usual bed time around 8:30 pm, and I thought they had gone to sleep. It turns out that my boy had fallen asleep, but my daughter decided that she wasn’t ready for sleep. I’m not sure what inspired her to dress up with her back pack and home-made binoculars, I guess she was exploring. but as you can see the  only thing she found was sleep.

POD: Fishing Elf

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From Pictures of the Day 2012

This morning when we got up we found our little Elf on the Shelf trying to catch our fish Rapunzel. It seems he fashioned a fishing rod with a stick some ribbon and a paper clip. The though of the elf eating our fish scared violet so much that this afternoon that she carefully reached over and snatched the rod from his hands and threw it in the garbage. She was quite proud that she did it without touching Jingles.

POD: Christmas Treat for Pre-School

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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.

POD: Unexpected Journey

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From Pictures of the Day 2012

Tonight Melissa and I headed out to our local theater to watch the first installment of the Hobbit. I loved the movie and Melissa seemed to enjoy herself too.  Melissa snapped today’s picture of the day as we waited for the movie to start. Now I think I have to dust off my copy of the Hobbit and see what was in the book at what as added by Peter Jackson.

POD: Family

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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.

POD: Skating with my Boy

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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.

POD: Violet’s Surgery

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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.