Bedtime for Lila

Lila was choosing her her clothes for tomorrow. Then she said:
Lila "I wish I had a wig"
Me "why?"
Lila "it would be a black wig"
Me "but do you know why you'd want a wig?'
Lila "I just want to"

Hamburgers!

Noah and Lila each had a hamburger at the restaurant last night. It was Lila's first, she enjoyed it :-)

Dia de los muertos

Lila went to her school's dia de los muertos celebration and had her face painted.

After a wet nights trick or treating

Roller coaster!

Noah likes roller coasters :-)

Pumpkin patch & train ride!

We're getting pumpkins for tomorrow evening. The pumpkin patch is also
an amusement park, and they have a 1/3rd scale steam train!

Bicycle Sunday

Three generations of Jayes rode to Seward park and back. This was Noah's first ride on the open road, and he was very proud of himself! 

We were very proud too :-)

College plans

Noah and Lila and I were talking last night and Noah asked, 

"Dad, which university has chemistry and robots? That's what I want to study"

I thought for a moment and said, "well lots do, I think UC Berkely might be good for that."

He said, "No, I want to go to school in Canada."

So I said, "my university had a good engineering and sciences program. I went to university of Toronto"

He said "good, I'll live in Toronto and go to school there."

Lila then said" I want to live in Toronto too, and learn to do art." So I told her that she could study at OCAD. 

They were both very content with their plans for the future. 

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Bedtime musings

Lila and I were doing her bedtime ritual. She stopped and asked me, "Daddy, what does god look like in your mind?"

I told her "I'm not sure"

She responded "I know what god looks like in my mind, but it's too complicated to explain."

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Yoga pose

Lila has invented a new yoga pose. She calls it popsicle pose!

She assured me that this specific popsicle pose is strawberry lemonade grape flavoured.

Lila and Noah riding bikes!

Noah & Lila riding bikes!

Noah!

Quotes from Lila

Lila had a very fussy day, but said some funny things. 

After throwing her new metal heart pendant at Karen for the second time she was told she could have it back in two minutes. She shrieked "but two minutes takes half an hour!"

Then when she was choosing her outfit for tomorrow she decided on a sundress but was insisting on wearing shorts as well. I told her that on a 92 degree day she probably wouldn't need shorts. She objected saying "but everyone will see my underwear when I do backflips". 

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Bowling!

We spontaneously went bowling yesterday.

Noah did the best out of all of us, getting a 112!(for the non-bowlers
amongst, anything over 100 is a great score)

Lila was disconsolate at having a score of 105 🙁

Lila sings her bedtime songs

Every night I sing Lila three songs, "The Grand Old Duke of York",
"Daisy", and "Eliyahu".

Tonight she sang them to me :-)

Kids learning at home

This evening Lila asked if she could please learn how to read, so she
and Karen have been going through Noah's old reading primers!

Independently, Noah asked if he could please practice 3 digit
multiplication to practice for grade 4. An example is 299 x 362. So
far he's gotten them all correct!

Impressive children! 😀

Dinner in the fort

Noah and Lila built a very good fort, and are having a secret fort
dinner inside.

Easter bunnies!

I look this a few months ago, but it seems appropriate for Easter.

Lila at bedtime

I was putting Lila to sleep and she asked for my hand. 

I gave her my hand to hold, and instead she kissed it then said, "now wherever you go, my love will go with you". 

Grandpa and grandkids out for ice cream

Soccer photo!

Mardi Gras in our neighbourhood

We went out to dinner and were pleasantly surprised by Mardi Gras revelers!

Lila got beads, Noah demurred :-)

Before the hike

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Making challah with Naomi

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-paul

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