Well January has been the month for having lots of friends come over and play. And of course, no play date would be complete without building a huge fort. Lia is the QUEEN of fort building. Seriously, almost every day she builds a masterpiece in one of the rooms of the house. Sometimes it's her bedroom, her playroom, the family room, the living room, our bedroom, or the basement. Right now the fort is in the basement and it's massive. I've included a picture of it so you can see its intricate design. I have to say that Lia is very good at building forts. Heck, she should be since she's had so much practice. We actually bought her this thing called "Super Forts" which is a system for building your own forts. I naively thought maybe that would cut down on the use of all our blankets and assorted pieces of rope, string, belts, etc. Nope, that's not the case. Now she uses all those things in conjunction with her Super Forts. My dad (Papa) thinks that Lia is going to grow up to be a construction engineer. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Another thing we've been occupied with as of late is reading the Famous Five books. The Famous Five was written by an English author named Enid Blyton and they feature the adventures of two brothers, Julian and Dick, their sister, Anne, and their cousin Georgina (called George) and George's dog Timmy. They are really great books because the mysteries in them are frought with things like secret passways, secret codes, hidden treasures, a castle on an island with a dungeon, etc. Nanna got the books (21 in the series) for Lia for Christmas and we're already on our fifth one. It's kind of funny because Dan will ask us to wait to read till he gets home from work so he doesn't miss out on what's happening. So those of you with kids that age should check it out. The only thing with these books is that they are difficult to find. We found ours on where else but E-Bay.
And you'll see that I've included some cute pictures of Lia (in the photo section down below) in dressing up in her friend's Minnie Mouse costume. She sometimes switches dresses with a friend for a week or so and this was one of the latest trades.
