Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Birthday go together like cake and ice cream around here. Ella, our little Valentine turned six this year. She is a joy and getting quite silly these days. I think it is the influence of the other school kids. It was a busy day. Up to open presents and then play with them. Off for lunch at a restaurant that brought you cake and sang to you. At first she insisted that i could make a good lunch so we could just eat at home ( i was flattered) and then she said that it was okay i could make her a cake too (again, flattered) but once she heard they would sing to her we had to go out. Outback was the stop. They sang and she tried to hide. HA!
It was a great day full of fun and phone calls.
Ella got a Ladybug night light that she loved from Aunt Kim! ( note: the flying wrapping paper)
She got her very own scuba set from Grandma and Grandpa
A bulletin board from Nana and Papa
A Brighton Charm necklace from Aunt Dale. ( her words: wowww, i love it more than i love my curious george notepad. that was just looking at the box and that is a pretty high distiction!)
And lots of money for The University of Alabama when she starts college. :) Thank you Aunt Betty, Nana and Papa, Robbie Dear, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Fraser. She especially love the 20 dollar bill. Her words, that is 20 dollars, that is Jackson, i love me some Jacksons. :)I guess that is better than Benjamins right now. HA!
We got her an ice cream cake and magic candles.
The boys love the birthday girl. Probably because she had the cake. :)
Ella is tying her shoes. She has been for about a month or more now and insists on wearing the cheap lace up cheer shoes we got from wal-mart. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see her non-lace, not cheap New Balance tennis shoes sitting in the corner. However, this is a new skill so we must use it daily.
February 3rd was Ella's 100 day of kindergarten. I was not aware that was a day you celebrated but in kindergarten you do. We had to decorate a vest with 100 items, her name and "100 day" on it. I stared at the cut brown paper bag, the "vest" and contemplated. Did i really want to get out all our craft stuff with four young children running around. No i did not and thank you to the person who thought it would be cool to have parents help decorate a "vest" for the celebration. I procrastinated. We did it the night before so she would have it in on Friday, the due date. We start with glue and glitter. Might as well get the worst part over with. Just as i had anticipated Jack and John wanted to craft. Jack is being fairly neat so i allow him a small amount of glitter to use and i am monitoring Ella and Jack while John is running in circles. I start helping Ella with her glitter and Jack took that opportunity to open a small jar of glitter i had missed. He kept it all on the counter but John spotted the open jar and that was all it took. I imagine a thought like this went through his head.....i think all that sparkly stuff would be really cool on the floor and it would be really fun if i spread it all around with my feet and danced in it. Before i knew it glitter was everywhere. :) Got the vest done and she was a cutie. When she saw everyone else's it was "why didn't you do that to my vest". Of course.
Ella received her first report card from this elementary school. She is doing excellent. It took me awhile to decipher all the s's and e's and what went where. It was a pretty detailed report card. It even had a section for her grade in "algebraic thinking". Her teacher, Mrs. McKay, sent me a note in her folder and on the report card saying she was adjusting very well and while there was no need to have a conference we could set one up to talk. I appreciated the offer. She also said Ella had made lots of friends in class and was ahead of where she should be at this point in the school year.
She has been in gymnastics for about 4 weeks now and is being moved up to the next class. They don't seem to have a good system for placing the girls and this program is not near as good as KPAC but she still loves it. Yea for Ella.