Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14, 2008 This
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Aren't these little handprints great? They were made by the 3-year-old artists in Abby's preschool class. Today was the big Valentine's Day party. I had the day off work, so I took Amelia along and served as the unofficial party photographer. It was fun to watch the kids get so excited about making crowns with pipe cleaner and heart antennas, decorating sugar cookies with candy sprinkles and throwing bean bags through a cardboard heart.
I wish we could bottle the enthusiasm kids have for making things at this age. They love cutting paper and using giant glue sticks and doodling with crayons. Boy do they love the crayons. But who doesn't love crayons? I still love crayons and secretly wish they made coloring books for big people. Hmm... maybe I should do something about that.
The girl's got some great mail today from Nana & Papa Ackerman, (My mom fills up the space inside the cards she sends with handwritten notes and lots of stickers) and Great Grandma Haywood sent along some great valentines and temporary tatoos, (Thanks to her, I have a zebra on my right bicep. I look crazy at the gym, but the kids think it's great so I will continue to adorn with temporary tattoos and look crazy at the gym.)
So we had a good time after school. Jeff brought home red roses for me and butterfly balloons for the girls, so we thought we'd be nice and give him time to take a much-needed nap. I'm sure he may have liked a giant flat screen TV or a new mac laptop, but he got a nap instead. Sleep is priceless, right?
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