Happy Valentines Day

We celebrated Valentines Day today as a family, since Tyler has been working late so often. I had planned to do a fabulous steak dinner for everyone too, but we were too busy with Home Depot trips and choosing paint colors for our house to get to the grocery store, so instead we settled on 'let's see what we can find in the fridge!' Turned out pretty great actually. We had a dinner of 3 different salads (broccoli, pasta, and quinoa/chickpea) and some yorkshire pudding and smoothies. Everyone ate it up pretty fast, which is always a delight to the chef. And Max delighted in giving himself a smoothie mustache.

The kids have been working on valentines for weeks and Lucy talks about Valentines day nearly as much as Christmas and her birthday. It's a big deal to her. So we've made it a big deal to us. What's the harm in that? She loves a holiday that is centered on love. She's been drawing and writing valentines for all her friends and family and just couldn't believe Grandma and Papa would be away for such a monumental holiday. "We better plan a valentines party for when they get home!" I don't think she realizes that people don't usually have valentines parties.

Anyway, they helped me pick out a gift for Tyler and I stowed a few things away for them as well. We got Tyler Wii Party because often his favorite gifts are ones that we can all enjoy. Something he can do WITH his kids. We had an afternoon of Wii Party for our Valentines party, and it was great. A few tears to start which I can only attribute to too much anticipation and not enough sleep. Both my kids found it VERY stressful at first. Which seems bizarr-o because it's just fun little mini-games.

I got my Max-Valentine a bumblebee transformer that actually transforms, which he loves; and my Logan-Valentine some little construction trucks that he likes throwing.

Logan also celebrated Valentines Day by deciding he can walk. Sort of. They're crazy steps in which he giggles and screams the whole time he's doing it, but it's totally awesome and cute. But of course, with this new surge of confidence also comes bruises or worse. Logan's got his first band-aid.
That wound was care of the TV stand cupboard door. But he went back to play with that same cupboard door later, so I guess there are no hard feelings.

Dad got his Lucy-Valentine a Cinderella dress-up doll to match the Snow White and Belle ones she already got for her birthday last year. She's been saying how she has her 2 favorites, but not her 3rd favorite. Now she has all 3. Do you remember when you used to rank things into favorites? It's a fun kid thing to do.

It was an awesome day and hopefully my Valentines thought so too. I am reassured that my valentines present is coming in the mail and should be here tomorrow.