My gamer score hit 10,000 tonight! Just under two years to hit it. Not to shabby I think. Something tells me I won’t double this in just under two years though.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Three Teeth Gone
Yet another completely awesome event occurred tonight! I got a text message about 8pm while I was at the hockey game (during one of the few seconds my phone actual got reception) from Tiffany saying Kylie lost her third tooth! This tooth is also on the bottom and is the second tooth on the right hand side from the middle. I don’t have a picture yet, but if Tiffany has one I will get it up as soon as I have it. It’s been a little over a year since she lost her first two teeth, and she already has a fourth one that is loose! Though I don’t think that one will come out as quickly after this one as the second one did after the first.
Red Wings Set NHL Record
Thanks to my job and a pretty awesome vendor I was able to go to my first real professional hockey game tonight. I say “first real” professional hockey game because I have been to a Red Wings alumni game, but that was so slow paced and laid back that it wasn’t a normal game, many of the players didn’t even wear helmets it was so laid back. Anyway tonight I got to watch the Red Wings set an NHL record by winning their 21st straight home game. Their unfortunate victims tonight were the Dallas Stars. The game was excellent and the seats were probably the best seats I will ever have, thanks to my vendor, we had seats up in the suites and this was my view for the night:
The suite itself was pretty nice and the food was very delectable. The drinks were available from an in suite fridge and staff came in periodically to refill it and the food. A dessert cart even came around gave us our pick of anything off the cart. I had a delicious chocolate cake shaped like a hockey puck with the Red Wings logo on top and filled with raspberry mousse. Yes, it was as good as it sounds! I think this night may have spoiled any further hockey games, or any sporting event for that matter. I mean for starters it was in a suite where we were basically catered to and pampered all night, and then not only do the Red Wings win but they also set an NHL record. How is another game going to top that? 🙂
Dads & Dolls
Today was an awesome day! Kylie and I went to our first (hopefully of many) Daddy Daughter Dance. It was held at the Southgate YMCA and was about 2 hours long. They had light refreshments and craft activities and some structured dances. There were a number of 
slow songs but there were also some fun upbeat songs that kept us all moving. Kylie really seemed to enjoy the locomotion that turned into a limbo line. She thought it was funny watching Daddy go under the limbo stick, we also learned how to do a minuet. It was more fun than i would have thought it would be. I could see doing some type of ballroom dance lessons when she gets older and possibly doing something like that with her. The organizers told us there were about 60 girls at the dance, which was twice what they had last year! We did not know about the dance last year and we only found out about it this year because Tiffany now has Kylie going to the YMCA for latchkey on days that Kylie has a half day or no school, also Kylie will be spending her summer week days here this year when school is out. I really hope we can do this again next year! If not at the YMCA then maybe there will be one at her school.
Great Improvement
Tiffany just got back from a meeting with Kylie’s teacher about her progress so far this year, and the results are exactly what we have come to expect from Kylie. 🙂 In November Kylie was reading at level 8 and now she is reading at level 14! Only one other student in her class improved in their reading level that much. To put the reading level in perspective in order to advance to 2nd grade she needs to be reading at level 16 by the end of the year. Her teacher said she “will be reading at a 2nd grade level well before she is in 2nd grade!” She is also on track with her math skills, and the class will be starting science next week. Overall she is doing very well and “she is a pleasure to have in class.”