February is the month of love, and that is amplified in our family. We celebrated Valentine’s Day, Family Day, Cigo’s gotcha day and several birthdays. The biggest celebration of all is Ellie’s birthday.
Ellie is helpful, loving, thoughtful, enthusiastic, kind, careful, sensitive and happy. Most of all, she is fun. I never expected to have as much fun with her as I do.
To celebrate Ellie, here are a list of fun things we’ve been up to recently.
We love to play games in our house. Two recent hits are Hurry Up Chicken Butt and Happy Salmon.
The Ultimate Kids Baking Book is excellent. Ginormous Elegant Elephant Ears are a highly recommend.
There are those that hunt monsters to harm them and there are those that hunt monsters to help them. Which one are you? We are definitely on team help after reading The Trouble with the Two Headed Hydra. We’re looking forward to the other books in this series.
We loved watching the Olympics together. The “Out of Shape Olympics” series was a fun addition to the competitions.
These paint-like markers are a big hit with our artistic girl (and me).
We’re wrapping up birthday celebrations this week with a surprise adventure day and more fun.
Home on 129 Acres 
Hi Julia,
Sounds like you and Ellie have had a wonderful month so far. Happy Birthday to Ellie !
Kids make our adult world see in colour is how I see it. It brings the ‘kid’ out in all of us.
We enjoyed a family postponed Christmas turkey dinner last night at our daughter and SIL’s home. It was delayed with the passing of my first husband. My daughter and SIL have been out of province twice so far in working through her Dad’s finances and belongs, a big job. Jaro and I will be looking after our grandchildren for 6 days over March Break when they head out to Nova Scotia again. They are hoping to have his house ready to put up for sale sometime in April or early May.
I’ve booked tickets to see Robert Munsch ‘Fireside Bedtime Stories’ at the Lighthouse Theatre in Port Dover on St. Patrick’s Day while we have the kids. It will be a surprise. I’m sure we’ll all enjoy it. I’ll do some baking with them too while they are staying with us. They love that and having an English tea party with weak Earl Grey tea. Faith, 7 years, loves making crafts. I bought her a rug hooking giraffe picture that she will bring over to work on. I’m currently working on a Diamond art painting. I’m looking forward to crafting together with her. Lots of different games to play together will also be on the play menu. Our favourites are Quirkel, Yahtzee, Uno and Wizard.
Enjoy the remainder of February along with Ellie’s birthday surprise.
Pam