Category: Project 365

Lately Violet has taken a real interest in the ice at Jacob’s skating lessons. Every week she tries  to get on the ice, and gets upset when I stop her. She really wants be on the ice and as soon as we find skates that fit her small feet and she turns 2, we’ll get her out there.

Tonight Jacob and I were at nana and papa’s house. While there Jacob went for a swim, and I looked into an old computer to see if it could be fixed.  I couldn’t help but snap a few shots of Jacob in the water

Tonight was trivia night, a time to sit around the pub and use all that useless knowlege I’ve collected over the years. I have ever been great at trivia, I’ve had good and bad weeks. Ever since I stopped playing regularly I seem to have more bad. Though today we has a round that was perfect for me. The handout is my picture of the day. children’s book characters, they gave use the number and we had to supply the name. There was only a few that I didn’t know. Of course that included mine (#1 Captain Under-pants). We took that round 8 to 5 but it wasn’t enough. Our short-handed squad lost 67-63.

Today was a day of running around housework. Through it all the kids were great. Our picture is of the kids playing at one of our stops.

Today we spent the day at Hartlake Conservation Area. It was Melissa’s family picnic. I want to write more about the day but all that sunshine and good food has tuckered me out, so a real write up and some of the 300+ pictures will have to wait till tomorrow. What we have today is a picture that screams little boys and nature. It wasn’t the only frog caught today, but it is the only one I thought to photograph.

In an effort to limit our trips to the doctors we scheduled Violet’s 18 Month appointment and Jacob’s 4 year appointment for the same day.  It sounded like a good plan, but with both kids getting needles and a full waiting room it didn’t turn out that great. I don’t think we’d do that again, and given there age differences I doubt we could. Both kids did great but with the long wait and the needles at the end we were glad to get out of there.

Today I was looking at the playground near our house, and thought it strange to see it without kids. It’s been locked up for the last couple of weeks while the fix up a large planter area. The work looks great and almost complete so hopefully by the weekend it will be open again. Having the kids play in the play ground while relaxing on the patio is one of the best features of our house.

Today was Wednesday and that ment a trip to the ice rink for Jacob’s skating lesson. Today was the first time I didn’t feel chilly at the rink wearing my shorts and T-shirt. In fact it felt great to get out of the heat into the chilly arena. I was trying to get a picture of Violet watching her brother skate. After all when ever we’re at skating and Jacob is on the ice Violet is trying to get out there, it doesn’t mater that she doesn’t have skates, it’s where she wants to be. Perhaps this fall it’ll be time to fit her for skates.

Today while Melissa and I slept our children went on an adventure with there Nana and Papa. It’s an adventure we tried to do last summer with them but the evil forces of traffic prevent use from accomplishing it. It was a trip to Marineland, ever since last summer Jacob has wanted to go, he can sing the entire theme song. I’m glad that our little ones got to go and that they had a fun time with nana and papa, but I’m also a little sad that I didn’t get to take them.  Of course there will be other adventures to other places that I will share with them as the grow up.

Today was the hottest day of the year, so far. So I spent some of the evening making sure our Air conditioners where in right.  It’s amazing how hot our place gets if we don’t have them running.