March Break and Hadley's birthday
This was Easton's first March Break. He loved it! So did Hadley!
Friday was a PA day, so I let the kids do whatever they wanted around the house. They loved this! It was mostly screen time fun. Wii U, Youtube (Stampy Minecraft videos), some My Little Pony shows, and then actual playing of Minecraft. While there was other play that went on, I think I will call this day... Screen day. Saturday Brian and I worked on some projects for the house. We installed a light, and got started on the barn board frame for the bathroom mirror and just spent some time together as a family. Sunday my friend Leah was going to look at houses so I watched her two kids Sam and Josie, and they played well all day with my two. On Monday I took the kids to the zoo, which was a bit of a zoo, especially since I had to renew our annual membership. However, we spent most of the day there so the line ups to get the membership and entrance were worth it. We went with my friend Melissa and her son Cailum.
Tuesday I took the kids to Lynde Shores. They love it there! Hadley was super excited to have a bird eat out of her hand. (The chipmunks were still in hiding, but the swans and other birds were out). This was also St. Patrick's Day! My girlfriend Christina had her third baby. Evelina. So... Wednesday I watched her two oldest Sophia and Elisa while her and her husband could peacefully spend the day at the hospital.
Thursday Brian was able to come with us to the ROM. It had quite a few interesting things. The kids really liked the Minecraft rock exhibit. Plus there was a hunt for secret words which helped them to navigate through the museum.
Friday was Hadley's actual birthday and with the busy week, we used this day and called it Birthday prep day. There was cleaning, shopping, groceries, cake making, etc. Then our Friends Jenny and Ryan came. Ryan, Brian and Shawn went out to see a movie, while Jenny and I stayed in and watched two movies. Saturday we had family over to celebrate Hadley's birthday. Her cake this day was Frozen themed. Which I am actually quite proud of how it turned out. The big gift this year seemed to be books from many people. She has already read three of the chapter books we gave her since Friday, (65-70 pages each) and it is now Monday morning just after they have gotten on the bus. So... I think she likes them.
They are the Rainbow Magic Fairy books. I found a really good deal on the books so we got her ten thinking it may be a while for her to get through them, but not at that pace. I LOVE IT!
Sunday was her friend birthday party. She wanted it at Nebs Fun World in Oshawa. Her cake theme for this day was spring, she wanted lots of flowers because her birthday was the first day of spring and who doesn't like a flower on their piece of cake!
There were 9 kids in total counting Easton and Hadley.
They bowled, then had pizza and cake, this was followed by a rides (Easton used his tickets for the go carts while Hadley went on the round roller coaster type ride and then the jumpy castle). Every kid also received 32 tickets to the arcade. So just before leaving we enjoyed time in there.
It was a full and fun day.
I know I had a great March Break! Plus I now have an 8 year old!