Happy hearts for Valentine's Day

When you're three (or thirty-three or seventeen months), you love any excuse for celebration.  And here at the circus, we celebrated Valentine's Day all day long.

We started our morning with heart-shaped, whole-wheat pancakes.  The girls raced downstairs to the kitchen to help Mama make them.  Standing on their chairs, they measured out flour and milk and cracked the egg.  They mixed love right into the pancakes.

Topped with some real maple syrup, that made for a tasty breakfast and some very happy little girls.

 

Even though we serve pancakes with forks, fingers are the preferred method of eating!

After breakfast, Kathleen proudly delivered a Valentine to her Daddy.  (He didn't mind the distraction from studying.)  Kathleen had been saving the card for some time now, and she was very excited to finally give it to him.

We'd made the Valentine -- technically a sun-catcher -- using a tutorial we'd found here.  It combined lots of things Kathleen likes to work with: glitter, tissue paper, foam cutouts, and glue.  It worked well for Valentine's Day, and I expect we'll use the same idea again for other holidays.  (I see a shamrock shaped sun-catcher in our future!)

Later in the day, Daddy and Kathleen presented Mama with a Valentine of her own.  It had been Daddy and Kathleen's secret project, and it was beautiful!

We spent the day relaxing, reading, playing Candyland and Go Fish!, crafting, and napping (but only Madeline).  We enjoyed some special foods -- heart-shaped grilled cheese sandwiches, fresh strawberries, steaks for supper, and some cake that Daddy got us at a local bakery.  Yum! And Mama even got a brand new, shiny cell phone.  (Not that she can figure out how to work it!)  But best of all, we were together all day.  And that made our hearts happy.

We hope that something today made your heart happy, too.  Happy Valentine's Day!