Valentine's Day Love Bugs

We had a very sweet, fun Valentine's Day this year. The kids were VERY excited to finally take their Valentines to school and have a little party. And get mail. They LOVE getting mail!

Getting ready for school!



They enjoyed their tee shirts this year. Colin especially. His said, "Mr. Right. 100% Love." It made him laugh.

I split my time between both room's parties again. I started in Colin's room. His class said a little poem and gave all the parents a Valentine.


And we made a little craft.


I switched rooms just as Colin's room was starting snack. Gillian's room had just passed out cards and was getting ready for snack. G was happy to see me.


She didn't enjoy waiting for her classmates to eat her treats though...


After school we had lunch, quiet time, and haircuts. Oh, and a metric TON of STUFF all over the living room floor.

(I love that my mom mailed her treats in a wine box. After all that STUFF, I could have used a glass.)

After a (requested) dinner of pancakes, waffles, and bacon, C&G opened a few treats from Mommy and Daddy.

Some really cool sticker books (Gillian LOVED her. I think she's done the whole thing already).


Legos!



And some coloring papers for our "Magic" markers.


We had to begin Lego construction immediately.



And be glared at by Momo. So helpful.


Happy, happy day.

St. Patrick's Day Suprise!

A few weeks ago I won a prize on a little blog contest on my friend Rosie's lovely blog: Kitchens are Monkey Business

When Rosie asked what I wanted for my prize, I just told her to surprise us (with no nuts)! Well, on Thursday our packages arrived! Much to the kids' delight!

(um, ignore the clean laundry in the background)





The light up bow tie? HUGE hit.

Oh goodness, jewelry. Oh Rosie.



And M&Ms!! Oh my.


And just realizing that I never got pictures of the beautiful and lovely cookies that Rosie made! Although, there are lots of great pictures of them on Rosie's blog! They were YUMMY. Even Colin ate them, and he doesn't eat cookies (Thin Mints excepted). Thank you so very much, Rosie. We so appreciate the treats!

Treats!

Once we moved the kids into their big beds, we set up a chart to help us reinforce the "stay in your bed and go straight to sleep" aspect of the new bed set-up. We let the kids pick their own rewards this time. Gillian has had her eye on a Marshmallow Peep lollipop from Easter (yes, two months ago) so that was her pick, and Colin really, really like his popsicle from our last day of school, so that was his pick.

They are doing a great job of staying in their beds and (usually) going straight to sleep, so they earned their treats pretty quickly! Good job, kiddos!


(We gave G a popsicle too, just to be nice. Colin declined a marshmallow peep. Smart boy.)



Yum. Yum.