We were thankful that everyone was healthy for Valentine's week! We had postponed and rescheduled having Meera & Pragathi over to cut out Valentine's cookies for a party we were hosting later in the week. So they came over on Saturday afternoon and helped us bake dozens of cookies.
This girl LOVES Pragathi. She yells her name when she sees her walking to/from the bus stop each day.
Amelia celebrated the 100th day of school on that Monday. Her answers cracked me up.
On Monday afternoon, the neighborhood girls came over for a cookie-decorating party. They each decorated their plateful. My floor was covered in sprinkles, and everyone was grinning at their creations.
On Valentine's day, Austin set out to make more colored hearts.
Showing off his party loot.
Amelia came in excited to display her party craft.
Our library hosted a Mo Willems Birthday/Valentine party. So we attended. The kids had fun listening to the books, playing games and decorating additional cards.
Then we walked across the street and went to Amelia's ballet class. They allow parents to come in once a year to observe the students. It had originally been scheduled for the prior week, but was canceled due to ice. It worked out well for us that everyone felt better, so we all came and watched her class.
Showing off his window art creations. Eventually I'll remove the tape and clean the windows...but they love to randomly draw on them with the window markers.
This girl. As soon as she got over the worst of the virus/infection, she has turned up the mischief level to high. She requires constant supervision now. I don't know what switched flipped in her brain, but she is now climbing onto all prohibited surfaces, shoving electrical cords/markers/tools/anything prohibited in her mouth. She makes a dash for all electrical devices to turn them on/off, moves furniture to play with light switches and thinks climbing in and out of the tubs is hysterical. It's a good thing she's so cute. But she and time-out are becoming well acquainted. In 1 week, we've trained the kids to shut all doors as often as possible, in an attempt to minimize the damage done when Mommy is otherwise distracted or occupied.
On the amazingly warm Thursday afternoon before the President's weekend holiday, we made a dash for Duke Farms as soon as Amelia got home from school. Our friends met us for a brief time of running through the mud, swinging sticks in the air and releasing weeks of pent up energy.
They were all super-excited about a garter snake.
They literally spent almost an hour just piling mulch up on rocks and then clearing it off.
So grateful for health when we can get it!
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