Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine's Day

Instead of giving myself a hard time about not blogging for the last couple many months, I'll just start with today, Valentine's Day.  I've never been a big V-Day celebrator, but it's kind of fun to do little Valentine's activities with the boys and to have something to get excited about in the months that seem to have a little bit of a lull-ish feeling following Christmas.  Here are a few of our Valentine's Day shenanigans...

We've been doing a preschool co-op with Anna and Laura and their preschoolers.  We take turns teaching and it's been wonderful to have something fun and educational to do with our Friday mornings.  I was the teacher last week, and we did a little heart-themed art activity.

Reece was not entirely left out.  There were plenty of art supplies left for him when Davis and I got home.  And he loves his one-on-one time with Daddy.

Counting game using M&Ms.  He'll do anything for candy, like his mama.

We've just had a snow/ice storm, and we thought we might lose power, so we had breakfast for dinner on Wednesday night, including pink waffles with sprinkles.  Couldn't risk not having a Valentine's-y meal for the kids!  

Fortunately we did not lose power - many were not so fortunate - so we had another Valentine's meal this morning for breakfast.  Don't those red eggs look just delicious?

They were very excited about their special breakfast and handmade cards from Mommy and Daddy.

Davis ever so gingerly eating his heart-shaped toast with jam and sprinkles

Mommy's chalkboard with a nice little reminder for the season

I guess it's almost time to say goodbye to our Valentine's tree.  We put this up after Christmas when Davis was getting a little sad about the Christmas decorations going away.  We've enjoyed it.  Thank goodness I bought a tacky pink Christmas tree when I was in college and thank goodness it's now getting some use again.