Daddy Daughter Dates

I've been taking the girls out for one-on-one dates on the weekends I'm not in West Lafayette.  We've been having a good time.

For the first one I took Abby to a Mexican restaurant.  It didn't have a fabulous start.  While I was reading the menu she shot her straw wrapper at me.  I didn't see it coming and it hit me right in the eye, somehow managing to tear my contact in half.  So five minutes in to our first date I'm in the bathroom trying to flush a random piece of contact out of my eye, while Abby's feeling pretty bad about the whole thing.  We had some fried ice cream later though so all's well that ends well.  The drive home was interesting





Two weeks later Nora and I went to a 3d printing lab for a workshop on making fidget spinners.  The whole time Nora was convinced I was doing it wrong.  Every time the instructor would take a break and ask if anyone needed help Nora would shout out, "Ours is wrong, we need help!"  And every time the instructor would tell us we were fine.  We we finally went to print it though it wouldn't work though.  Whenever Nora tells the story she neglects to mention that none of the 20 printers were working that day, not just ours.  We had fun anyway.




We've done some other things, including a bike ride and a picnic.  Hopefully we're building some good memories.

Long Lost Blog Post

We're long overdue for a blog update so here are some highlights from the last 6 months.

We started school, and brought home a dog.

We made our annual trek to the pumpkin patch, and the girls were a bride, troll, and pop-star for Halloween.

For Nora's birthday we went skating.

And we celebrated Christmas.

Maybe my 2017 resolution should be for more regular updates.

St. Louis Vacation

For our summer trip we went to St. Louis. We had a great time. We started with the Gateway Arch, Nora really enjoyed sitting on the windows over the edge of the Arch.

We stayed at Union Station Hotel, which was built out of a converted train station. It had some pretty cool features.

The next day we walked over to the City Museum. It was very cool, especially the way the girls got to set the pace of our exploration and decide how much to push their limits. Kristin and I did get some pretty good knee bruises.

For a final day we went to the Zoo. We didn't get too many pictures, I think the polar bear and penguins were everyone's favorite.

Abby's 8th Birthday

We've got a lot of blog catching up to do. I'll get started with Abby's birthday, there were birthday pancakes and Abby picked cupcakes as for her birthday cake.

She also had a big birthday party will all her friends from school. As I recall the theme was candy fairies. I do remember we went through a ton of pizza.