The kids love drawing on the big white board. After lunch, we walked a few laps on the indoor track and wandered the BYU-I center. All the kids fell asleep in the car on the way home.
he girls were in the Valentine spirit on Tuesday. Lily spent an hour and a half addressing her cards to her classmates. Annie loved making cards for the grandparents. We still have yours Grammy and Grampy. I thought we had mailed them and then I found them in my mail basket in the kitchen. They are coming soon.
When Tommy and Annie are quiet together in the morning, it usually means some kind of trouble is happening. Fortunately, I caught them snuggled on my bed eating yogurt, and playing a game together on the Kindle after my shower. They looked so sweet together.
Tommy's hair was getting too long. I decided to give him a cut. The last one I did in November went well. This one, not.....so...much! He wasn't scared or difficult, he just wouldn't hold still and while I was trying to blend the back and sides, I ended up taking off a lot more hair than I wanted too. So, he got buzzed all over. It is actually so much easier and now his hair doesn't stick up every which way.
Thursday was Lily's class Valentine party. She helped me make these cupcakes from scratch Wednesday night and frost them Thursday morning. She was so proud of them. Had I known so many other moms would bring treats for the party, I would have brought something healthy or nothing at all. The kids were so overloaded with treats, that most of them ended up in the garbage. Including my amazing cupcakes.
Annie dressed herself to go to the party at school. Striped jacket, striped leggings, and a yellow glitter skirt. She was so proud of how she "matched" everything - "because it is all stripes". Oh dear!
Lily had so many treats to choose from that she happily shared with Tommy, Mommy and Annie.
It was a little chaotic getting all the valentine's passed out. Some moms went way overboard with the valentines. One kid brought everyone in class a stuffed animal. Many of the kids brought Pinterest worthy valentines that looked like they took hours to make. What happened to the days of a simple card and maybe a sucker?
I helped Annie build a marshmallow snowman. She was really excited to figure out that licking the marshmallows made them stick together. Poor marshmallow man didn't live long. Annie and Tommy ate him up in record time.
Puna and Papa came for a visit and stayed with us for Valentine's Day. Daddy bought each kid a balloon and a small box of candy. The kids love getting a balloon every year. Although Tommy was not a fan of the big eyes on his money balloon. He cried when we tried to bring it to him.
Lily, Annie, and Tommy loved opening their cards from Grammy and Grampy and Puna and Papa. We are so blessed to have grandparents who love us so much!
Lily got a rubberband loom. She and Papa spent a better part of the weekend trying to figure it out. They successfully made three different bracelets. We'll probably hide that thing until Papa comes again. Mommy and Daddy don't have the patience to figure it out.
Papa brought a special treat for everyone - chocolate covered strawberries. The girls got to dip the berries by themselves. We also had sprinkles. It was fun to make them and fun to eat them.
Mommy got hit with a tummy bug Friday night that lasted into Valentine's Day. So I missed all the fun the family had together at the museum on Saturday. Uncle Brady also got sick the same day so we didn't see him until Sunday night. Thankfully Mommy and Brady got over the bug quickly. Daddy and Papa finished all the texture on the walls and ceiling in the basement over the weekend too. Now it's time to decide on carpet and paint. Woo hoo!
Before Puna and Papa left, Puna gave the girls a much needed hair cut. Nothing major, just a good trim. They liked getting some special beauty attention from Puna.
And that's all for the week. We're thankful no one else got the nasty tummy bug. And it was wonderful to have Puna and Papa here to help with the kids and the basement. Happy Valentine's Day!
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