Tuesday, February 14, 2012

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

We had a great Valentine's Day and I thought I'd share it with you :)

Even though Elizabeth and Noah have been pretty sick, we made it a pretty fun day...starting out with heart-shaped pancakes with triple berry syrup and even some whipped cream, heart shaped sausage, dyed-red applesauce, and red cranberry juice. I also had a heart table cloth and little Valentine's on their plates for when they came downstairs for breakfast. They were sooooo excited, it was so cute!!!













I had bought them some new washable markers, so we made Valentines for each other and for some friends. I also bought little kits to make your own valentine candy necklaces, so we made necklaces (Elizabeth would put one candy bead on the string and then eat one, so her cany necklace was quite a bit shorter :) We did lots of puzzles, cut out paper hearts, and chased each other around.

We had heart-shaped PBJ and apples for lunch and spahetti with red sauce (and some other non-valentine stuff), but overall, it was a super fun day. I think the kids were pretty pooped by the end of the day and their poor eye infections, congestion, and coughs were majorly acting up by bedtime. But hopefully they'll sleep a little better than they have been after such a busy & fun day :)

It was so cute because while Elizabeth and Noah were taking a bath, Elizabeth pushed him and he bonked his head and was crying (she can be such a bully sometimes!) Anyway, Noah said, "Mom, my heart is all the way empty!" (That's what he says when he's really sad or angry). So, a little later after dinner, he was helping Ammon and I clean up the mess the kids had made in our room and he was in this great "helper" mood. He was doing so great and I kept telling him how happy I was that he was helping and how grateful I was for him. He stopped and said, "Mom, my heart is all the way full!" And he put his hands behind his back (to say that he's more full than even putting his arms straight out...but so full that they're all the way to his back :) I told him that when we help other people and when we're kind, it makes our hearts full of love. So, he runs over and gives me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and says "Happy Valentine's Day!" I love things like that. Noah has one big "full" heart :-)

Hope you liked hearing about our little Valentine's Day and we hope yours was as great as ours!

Love,
Nat, Ammon, Noah, and Elizabeth :-)

P.S. I'm not quite sure how he knows about hearts being full or empty, but I just have to tell you that the first time it came up, Noah came up to me when he was really sad and angry and said, "My heart hurts because it's broken." I was kind of confused and asked if something hurt. He said, "No, my heart is broken because I feel so sad and angry!" Then he went on to say how it was breaking and what we could do to fix it! I was so surprised that I almost started laughing to hear this coming from Noah's mouth and have him be so serious about it! I think he even said something about how his heart might even be bleeding because it was so broken...I mean really, a 4 year old!?!?! We did fix his broken heart and we try to not let it break very often. But my oh my, that Noah is one little tender-heart!