Hope everyone had a fun Valentine's Day!
We use every excuse to do sugar cookies around here, Valentine's Day included
Ari never had much fun because she hated the frosting, even if it touched her. Thanks to her birthday cake, she was having a blast decorating this time around. I think she ate all hers before the other 2 finished... pretty funny
The kids have way too much fun doing Valentine's for their classes. I usually just buy the cheap kind at the store, but they wanted to be more involved than that this year, so Hailey just found some cute ones online and printed them out, cut them out and signed her name.
I told them they could do whatever they wanted with the 2 candies we keep stocked at our house- dum dums and smarties. This is what Scott came up with...he turned a smartie into a cute firecracker. He had so much fun making them (and we even enlisted Dad to cut out 28 flames! lol)
Instead of cutting the sandwiches into hearts this year I just used a cookie cutter and 2 types (different colored wheat bread or you could use 1 wheat 1 white) of bread and swapped out the hearts on Scott and Hailey's sandwiches. Scott is obsessed with jokes this year, especially now that he's reading. He always checks out joke books at the library so I put some jokes in his lunch. Silly one's like, "What did the boy octopus say to the girl octopus?" Answer: I wanna hold your hand hand hand hand hand hand hand hand
Kids crack up over jokes like that- it's so cute!
Ari was the only one who didn't have a party because she's not in preschool yet, but the library put together a short little story time with a craft and cookies and milk and that was just perfect. They even passed out these little Valentine's, so Ari was as happy as a clam :)
Every time I had the camera out Jay was napping, but here's one the other day. Jay can't just lay out and play anymore because Hailey is completely obsessed with playing with him. She's always been like that, but now that he's not quite as fragile she is constantly picking him up and carrying him around. It's super cute! She is such a sweet little girl. Ari was crying yesterday and Hailey went over and bend down to her level and said, "Would you like to play in my room or your room?" Ari said, "Your room" and Hailey said, "Okay Ari, but next time you don't need to cry to get what you want okay?" and she took her hand and off she went. :)
And although this wasn't said on Valentine's Day, it pretty much sums it up. Scott came up to me yesterday and gave me a big hug and said, "Who loves anything more than their family?"