Valentines-Check

We picked out the final touches for Wyatt's valentines at the store today. After Wyatt's nap we put together the cups with as much love as we could muster. I thought if Wyatt helped me and could pick out what went into each goodie bag he wouldn't mind nearly as much that he wouldn't get to have one today. Boy was I wrong. We had a huge fight about them and even though there were extra spiky balls that he got to have and he will get one of his own valentine's at his party on Tuesday he was still unhappy. I eventually had to pack them up in a paper sack and put them away so he couldn't find them. If this is any precursor for how he's going to do for the goodie bags for his birthday party then I will probably just do it myself!

Cup, spiky ball, heart crayon, heart bracelet, and heart slinky.

Crayon Hearts

Thanks to Pinterest I found a very easy Valentine's project for Wyatt and I to do this weekend. We took leftover crayons and peeled the paper off of them, what was left, and then chopped them into smaller pieces. I found a silicone heart mold at Target for $2.50 and used that for the molds since it could be peeled from the crayons easily.

Chopped up crayons and the heart mold

I filled them to the top.

Baked at 230 degrees for about 20 minutes.

The beautiful fronts!

They are about an inch thick.

Valentine's Day 2011

This Valentine's Day was spent as a family. Mike got home tonight and we went straight out to eat and since Wyatt was going with us we decided on something family-friendly and chose Chinese Buffet! Who doesn't love chinese buffet? Well this family loves chinese buffet even Wyatt. He loves all the American food that they have at chinese buffets: chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese and salad fixings. After our fabulous family dinner we spent the rest of evening chilling at home and enjoying each other's company since in just a couple of days I start Parent/Teacher conferences and won't be home for two nights before Wyatt goes to bed. :( A Valentine's Day with my two loves!! What a great way to spend such a loving day.

The beautiful flowers that Mike got me!

Our First Valentine's

Today was Day 1 of being snowed in and no school for both Wyatt and I. It turned out to not be bad so Wyatt and I used that day to run around and try to get out of the house as much as possible before the big snow came! We had lunch at Gambino's, went to Target to get a baby shower gift for Mike's cousin. and then stopped by Dyer's to grab some snacks for the lurking snow days ahead.
The first thing we saw when we walked into Dyer's was a display of Valentine's Day cards for kids. You remember the kind we would hand out as kids with some cartoon character or tv show on them. The kind that I still get every year from kids at school. Well since it's Wamego they didn't have a large selection to chose from: Wizards of Waverly Place, Bakugan, Wow wow Wubbzy, and Yo Gabba Gabba! Once we saw Yo Gabba Gabba it was over and the decision was made, we had to get them. Wyatt doesn't watch much tv but he will watch a solid 3 minutes of Yo Gabba Gabba before finding something else to do. Trust me when I saw that's a lot for him!!
We grabbed those and the rest of our loot and made out like a bandit for home before the snow came. When we got home we had to get them out and start filling them out. I filled out as many as I could remember from his class and then my friends' kids. I got done with that and then let him get his crayons and put his own personal touch on the valentine's.

Look at the precision of that crayon.

He would color on it and then hand it to me so that he could get another one to color on.

I had pre-written names on them and his and then he was going back and using his crayon to "sign" his name again.

You can't see it in this but he was only signing where I put his name. Oh and he is also doing such a good job holding the crayon like a pencil. See above! Big smiles on my face!!

A close up of the new grip on his crayon! Way to use those fine motor skills. God I'm such a teacher!!

This was the only picture I could get of him when he was actually looking at me. At least his nose looks semi-clean!