Owen started off the month of February with a friend's American Ninja Warrior (ANW) birthday party. It's basically a fancy obstacle course competition, and the kids LOVE it. Here's Owen climbing the wall at the end (apparently one of the few to be able to leap to the top)!
Hadley is a little obsessed with ANW, so she was bummed that it was a boy's only party, and is already planning her own birthday party there for this summer. To distract her, we used a Groupon at a local ceramics painting place, which she enjoyed very much. She chose a gnome, "Petey", to paint.
It was a two-for-one, so I got to paint too. I chose a spoon rest, since we needed one, and a teabag rest for a certain tea drinker. I had time to do both, while Hadley diligently painted Petey.
A few days later, Granna and Grandad came to town. The weather was beautiful and we spent some time outside.
Hadley enjoyed showing them her chalk city, Alemedatown, very well planned out with neighborhoods, school, shops and parks.
Before we knew it, it was Valentine's Day.
The kids' classes both had Friendship parties, and as room parent, I got to attend (and run) Hadley's party. She adores her teacher, Ms. Cashion, and loves to go to school to see her!
They had treats and played games. My favorite was the friendship yarn, where each student tossed the yarn to someone across the circle and gave them a compliment and so on. It was so sweet to hear their kind words to each other.
I was even able to sneak away to peek in at Owen's party where he was playing a kind word memory game.
His class was a featured class of the week, too. (Ms. Teter, his teacher, is in the middle of the back row.)
Finally, we had a day off from school for President's Day, so I thought the kids would enjoy some time at Monkey Joe's. And they did!
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