Happy Valentimes!

Sara always gets so excited about Valemtimes day, as she calls it.  Even more so now that she has a school party and friends at school to exchange valentines with.   This year her Nanna sent lots of supplies for making valentines and Sara couldn't wait to get started designing them.  So we chose to give away fruit leathers instead of candy because everyone else does candy.   Last year we made pretzel kisses that she excitedly gave away.   She is so thoughtful and wants to give valentines away to everyone we know.  So this year we gave them away to her swimming buddy and neighbors too.

She totally designed them herself.  Dan only helped a little with the tape but she did all the gluing, stamping, and she wrote her name on the back of them all herself.  I'm always surprised as she gets older and older at the things she can do by herself.  Also her pre-school is very art oriented and I know has learned a ton of skills from being in that class.  

She put the fruit leather in the middle of two paper hearts and then individually decorated them herself.  They looked really unique. She even insisted on making one for her teacher.

Daddy always starts her valentines day off right with a really nice breakfast.  This morning we woke up to red heart shaped chocolate chip pancakes with strawberry filling, yum!  They were a big hit with Brennan too.

Sara told us "Happy Valentimes Day" about 100 times today, even as we were going to bed and then she asked me tonight if Valentimes day is also tomorrow.  I told her no it's only one day, but that she was invited to a Valentimes Tea Party by the neighbor, so luckily she gets a bit of an extension.

At pre-school they wove a paper heart which inspired Daddy to try and weave paper both of which we displayed on the fridge.  Check out their mad paper weaving skillz.

I think Sara gets really excited this time of year because her b'day is just around the corner from Valentimes as well.  We asked her what she wanted to do this year.  She told me earlier in the year that she wanted to have a party at the Dinosaur Museum.  I wanted her to have it at the tubing hill at Jolly's Ranch.  In the end, she insisted on having it at the jumping place that we had it at last year.   

So we arranged for her to have it there again and she seems really happy.  This year she wants the theme to be My Little Ponies, which she has recently gotten into because of pre-school.  We are getting her a rainbow cake from Costco and putting the ponies on it and also using the various drawings of the characters that she colored as decorations.   It should be lots of fun for her and really cute.  I just hope she can stay well for a few more days and not catch anything that would make her too sick to enjoy it!