Fabulous February!!

Generally, February is just one of those blah months with the only real highlight being Valentine's Day. This year, February has been Fantastic!

The weather hasn't been bad.

Owen played at the Bulls game again.

An Olympic Party at neighbours... Go Canada Go!!!

Valentine's Day festivities including cupcakes for Owen's class

Surprise 40th Birthday for my friend Lianne from home. I can't tell you how great it was to spend the night with my friends. It has been far too long, and I had forgotten just how much I miss them.

Valentine's Day shopping trip to Buffalo with friends Wendy and Barry, out to dinner and then to the movies to see "Valentine's Day"! And two nights without the kids..... being able to sleep in.

Not to mention all of the events still to come!!

Welcome February.... to date it has been a blast!

Help for Haiti

I had my students write a journal about how they could help the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Quickly I knew we needed to do more than just write. We started a fundraiser asking students to bring in donations every morning. At the end of the announcements we played the song Imagine by John Lennon. The support was overwhelming. We reached our goal of $500 in the first day. By the end of the week we were over $2000 and we decided to continue our efforts with a cookie sale. The teachers generously baked dozens of cookies and my students sold them on Tuesday.

Along with the cookie sales and a cheque for $1000 by a family at our school our total became $3411.50

This overwhelming display of caring was heart warming.

Owen is in Love!

When Owen got off the bus this afternoon he was quick to tell me what a great day he had. When I asked why he told me that he knew who he was going to marry. He was very excited to share the news with me that he was going to marry Madison, and that he loved her. She was the most beautiful girl in the world. He told me that Peyton wanted to marry him too, but he told Madison that if she told Petyon he was going to marry him he wouldn’t marry her anymore. He asked how old he had to be to get married and when I asked him how old he thought he had to be, he guessed five. Just a bit too early for this mommy! He then proceeded to tell me about chasing all the girls in his class to kiss them. This completely shocked me because he has told me before about how he has ran away from the girls trying to kiss him. He said that he kissed all the girls in his class on the head. I was on to him... soon I had him admitting that he didn’t kiss all the girls in his class but that he was marrying Madison.

The rest of the way home he sang about how he was going to marry Madison.
Sooo cute!

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He Shoots He Scores!

Owen's Hockey team played at the Bulls game last night. It was a very exciting evening for the boys and us parents too. The team went out on the ice at the beginning of the game to be introduced and stand during the national anthem. Then they watched the game for the first period and a half and went on the ice for the second intermission break to play. Owen was beyond excited. This was his first real hockey game, being out late and SCORING HIS FIRST GOAL!!! Yep, Owen scored against Bully at the game. I can not even begin to tell you how excited this boy was. He kept asking if he really scored, and wanted to watch it over and over again on the dvd. Everywhere he went today he told people he got a goal at the Bulls game!

What a great memory! First real hockey game, and first goal all on the same night!

Northern Lights

At school Owen had the story "Snowy Day" read to him. He was then asked to draw what he liked to do on snowy days and the teacher wrote down his description. Most kids wrote down that they built snowman, forts, etc. Owen wrote down that on snowy days he liked to look for the Northern Lights. His picture is absolutely beautiful and looks just like the northern lights. I was thinking that maybe he had made a connection to the movie "the Polar Express" that he watched over and over again during the holidays.

On Friday, Owen brought in a picture of his fish Bluey to show his teacher and his classmates. His teacher had him draw a picture of his fish and recorded his story to go along with it. Please disregard the bottom portion of his story... I did not let a bird come in the window and eat bluey!!

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