Michael Janzen

Julia got this little interaction on video the other day. Katie is amazing… almost 3 years old. I can’t believe how time has flown by, and she just gets more fun everyday.

I’m am so lucky to be able to work-from-home. Katie came and reminded me it was lunch time when noon rolled around. She plopped herself in my chair when I stood up for a second with a book and started reading out-loud. Julia put some really cute pony tails in her hair today too.

Out of the mouths of babes… Katie just said, The Pigeon is Driving My Daddy as I chased her around the house. She is a very funny girl, and as you (and Mo Willems) can tell has definitely not missed the point.

Last Sunday we were working out in the front yard a little and Julia asked me to carve out some space in a some juniper bushes for Katie and a new fort. It was mostly an open little area so all I had to do was clean out the dead branches. Then just for fun I threw a pallet down, propped it up with some rocks and tossed a piece of plywood on top. I’ll build here a better little fort soon but it was cool watching her play. I’d like to built it out of pallet wood but to avoid splinters and improve safety I might just break down and buy some lumber when we build the real thing.

I snapped this photo of Katie yesterday morning… I asked her to smile but this expression popped out. I should be used to it by now because I get it a lot from a lot of people for all my seemingly hair-brained ideas. But now I’m getting it from my little girl. C’est la vie

While we were cooking dinner tonight I left Katie in my office with her books and YouTube. I forgot I left a Sharpie in my desk drawer and when I returned on one of my check-ins I found this… luckily my little girl wasn’t covered. In fact there was no ink anywhere except on these few keys. Looks like I lucked out huh?

Here’s my very smart two year old (actually almost two and a half!) on November 4th before the final election results came in.

Julia (mommy) made a little video with captions, sound effects, and everything on iMovie last night. It stars our daughter Katie and nephew Akash. Atashi, my sister-in-law had a big fund-raising event to host in San Francisco for Narkia the non-profit she runs and needed an overnight baby sitter. So… Akash came to play and sleep over! Katie loved having her little cousin visit.

Yesterday was our 12th wedding anniversary and we took a trip with Katie, Grammie, and Pop to the pumpkin patch. Katie got her first pony ride and Mommy did a cool video.

Julia put Katie in her Halloween costume today for fun and photos. At first she was kind of upset. I guess it didn’t feel very comfortable but then she got into showing off a little. Cute huh?