Busy, busy month

February is always a busy month that flies by, with the biggest event closing out the month - Helaina's birthday.  Prior to that there's Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, the annual father daughter dance, mid-winter break from school - it's hectic, tons of fun for Helaina and exhausting for Jim and I.  This year we threw another event into the mix - Helaina's first snowmobile ride.

Let's just say that the smile on her face says it all.  We knew that we had a daredevil on our hands and that she'd probably love snowmobiling, and we were so right.  Three rides in all and she wanted
more.

So excited just before her first ride.  I was a bit nervous though.  I had been on a snowmobile once in my life (in my earlier more reckless years) and it didn't end well.  The driver went up a hill and tipped the snowmobile backwards over on us.  I walked back to the house and that was it.  First and last time on one ever.

She went around the trails twice with her first rider.  Loved, loved, loved it.  We went in for a drink and cookies then she went for another ride.

This time the local fire department drover her around in their sled and she got to sit down during the ride.  She said she liked this ride because they "went in the forest".

 

Helaina picked this snowmobile for her third ride.  Liked it because it had the word "Viper" on it and she loves snakes.  Snazzy red helmet too.

This driver was told by a volunteer that  "she likes to ride" so he took her through the forest on a longer ride.  Helaina told us on the car ride home:  "I was thinking in my own mind 'Is this guy crazy?' he's going so fast!"

Helaina got to climb up into a fire engine and got lots of goodies from the fire fighters.

Our little speed demon sporting her pink fire helmet.  Pretty in pink.

 

Helaina loves books and going to the library.  We read to her a lot and it's pretty cool that she can now read to us.  Her reading ability is remarkable and amazes us more every day.  I was in the kitchen the other day and I heard Helaina talking to her baby doll so I stopped what I was doing and watched.  She got a book and a blanket and got comfortable on the couch with her arm around her doll then started reading the book to her.

Helaina's learning about frogs in Science class so we checked out a book from the library on frogs and she is fascinated with it.  Guess she thought her dolly would like to learn about frogs too.  "And the Daddy frog holds on to the Mommy frog  real close when she lays her 4,000 eggs.  See the picture?"  Oh boy.....

Next day, same thing - only this time it was her Ice Age Continental Drift book.  She's a funny kid for sure.