Li’l tree climber
Sierra trying to figure out what she would wear on Hallowe’en
This kid’s costume is great and practical on a cold Hallowe’en afternoon!
I love how the kids had to get their candy up a ladder and them come down into a bunch of leaves at our friends house!
Searching for candy around our yard. It felt like Easter!
Sierra learning how to play cribbage
Hanging out before bedtime
Not a lot of snow for the first snowfall but enough to try out a snow angel. Every time I write the word angel I always think of the story of Grandpa Sidney writing to Nanny Ruth and in the letter he wrote something like “Dear angle face.” Hahaha!
I’m not sure why we took this picture…maybe it was to say thank you to Aunt Maureen and Uncle John for sending up some cheese from Kapuskasing? Regardless, looks like she approves!
While I don’t think the reality was as colourful as this, it’s great to see Sierra colouring within the lines!
A great video if you like to hear the audience cry!
I’m not generally excited when I have to pull together items for school but when I saw that she had to build a fort I was giddy! This would be her first fort as I never thought of building one with her! She was quite excited about it. I can’t recall but I’m pretty sure this was on a Friday and she kept it up all weekend.
Learning how to play hopscotch
We might have to book a dentist appointment sooner than later
While she looks like she is having fun here, this was her trying to run away from me trying to take a nice photo of us at the park!
Castor River area looks quite different when all the leaves have fallen
Victory!
Sierra’s first sour candy
When working from home I try and take an afternoon walk. I have fond memories of a few of those days where Sierra joined me so she could eat a stroopwaffel with me.
Sierra helping me with the Christmas lights. You know, every year that tree gets in my way more and more and I think “Why don’t I just cut this whole thing down?”
Warming up after a cold morning outside
I believe I sent this photo to my sister saying “I never realized how important these holes in the spatula were until I was making grilled cheese sandwiches and I could just lift them up and peer under the spatula.”
Every time I see Sierra playing with these things I remember my Dad marvelling at how better they were compared to Legos.
Flu shot at the doctor’s office was a big success! I can’t remember when we started getting Sierra used to the mask (maybe months before this?) where we would say she could have iPad time if she wore a mask. I guess it paid off since she didn’t put up too much of a fuss. Also, Sierra is always a champ when getting shots. Very brave!
A month before Christmas and the drawings start! I even entered this one in the Departmental holiday card contest. I took a look at the other entries from 4 year olds and I have to say either a) Sierra is way behind on her drawing abilities compared to other kids or b) kids get a lot of help from their parents whereas Sierra doesn’t get much at all! I love how she cut some of the drawing up to glue onto the page.
Slomoslide!
That fan that I fixed up was making a vibration noise in Sierra’s room so I finally crawled back up into the attic to figure out what I could do. At first moving it around wasn’t doing much of anything. It almost seemed like the vibration was coming from within. What was I to do? I noticed that if I really hauled upwards on it the noise stopped so I ended up putting a tie-down strap onto it and it seemed to fix it! Not the most elegant solution but winter is coming and I don’t feel like hanging out in the attic more than I have to. I’ve been thinking of getting more insulation in the attic and I have a feeling this unit will have to be completely moved somewhere else anyhow so I can deal with that next year.
Cruising around
More snow, yay!
The San Diego Comic Con went virtual with their exclusive merchandise this year so when I saw this I knew I had to have it. Let me tell you, this has become THE item of laughter on video conferences for work. Whenever someone mentions something facepalm worthy I exit the scene and have this guy pop up. It’s always a hit! For the amount I use it for work purposes I think I should get reimbursed for it! ;-P
A proud moment for Sierra and I. After many evenings of playing together (I would say Sierra played 15% and Dad 85% when things got too tough) we finally defeated Ganon. She was super excited to save the princess. I don’t think she understood at the beginning how long it would take to save Princess Zelda but after many evenings we finally did it!
We started up the first Zelda game after this and I was really hesitant to do so. My memories of that game was a year of burning bushes looking for secret passageways and it being an overly hard game. However, I have a tool available now that was unavailable in 1987…the Internet. We’ve been blazing through this game and I am actually enjoying it this time around. Sierra finds this one really difficult so I’m mainly playing the game.
Learning the piano!
