I heart Valentine's Day

So instead of making Valentine's Day all about candy this year I thought I'd try to make it fun. I cut out a bunch of pink and red hearts to decorate my daughters room with and made a heart banner with some construction paper, ribbon and tape.

easy peasy

 I wrapped up her Valentine's Day gifts and made a little scavenger hunt for her to find them. Since she's only four and she can't read yet I made it a picture hunt on yellow hearts so she doesn't get them confused with the pink and red hearts that are all over the house. 

I think I learned was that if you're going to be taking pictures of a fast paced scavenger hunt in low light, it's best to put the camera on auto instead of trying to adjust manual settings! So many blurry photos! She had sooo much fun though, I can't wait to do it again next year. 

her first clue...

that drawing was horrible, good thing she knew what it was...

it was unplugged, don't worry...

 but which boots?...

the microwave!

it took her awhile to figure out what that drawing was LOL

the present was in the bathtub!

She helped me decorate the house with cut out hearts. There is something still fun about cutting hearts out of paper.

 our front door

Confession: I used to get really annoyed by people that would say "heart" instead of love when someone draws a heart in a sentence but I guess it's grown on me :)

Happy Dance!

Good thing no one lives below us because we are doing the happy dance!! 

No more diapers!

No more pull-ups!

No more sitting in front of the toilet begging for 45 minutes!

I'm not going to lie to myself, there probably will still be washing out underwear in the sink, but not every night!

Everyone in this house is potty-trained!

I had to call Santa immediately and he informed me that there would be a little purple princess bicycle in the storage room in the basement & we rushed downstairs at 10:30 at night for the very first celebratory bike ride. I told her she could ride her bike at the park with her friends tomorrow. I suppose that means it will rain ;)

Happy (belated) Mother's Day!

I had such a wonderful day yesterday I thought I would wait until today to write. To all you mothers out there, I hope you had a great day as well.  This was officially my fourth Mother's Day since giving birth to my daughter and the amazing thing is that my husband has only missed one of those. (He was deployed to Iraq for the second.) The Army does a great job of making sure you don't spend too many holidays together. I got 3 out of 4 Mother's Days together but only 1 of my last 3 birthdays. Weird huh? Anyway, Mother's Day is one holiday my husband does up right. He realizes when your kids are young it's up to daddy to help make the day special. Last year he helped my daughter make cupcakes.

 It was adorable! This year I took my daughter to friends birthday party and when I came home he had done the dishes (which I can't stand doing!), the laundry, and vacuumed. It was wonderful. Then we went shopping and out for supper. When we got home he had an already wrapped  present hidden from me. My daughter brought it to me and says, "Happy birthday Mommy!" 
Inside I found a Nextbook (an android tablet/e-reader) and a DS game. I was so excited! I've been wanting an e-reader for some time but I never buy stuff like that for myself. This was the most unselfish gift my husband could give me because he hates to read but he knows how much I love it. This thing is great! It came preloaded with 27 classics and it has wi-fi so I can surf the internet, get on Facebook, check my email, listen to music, watch videos, and blog ;)  It does take me a while to type on it though so I probably won't be doing a lot of blogging from it. The DS game was immediately taken over by my daughter so I haven't even got to play that yet. 
Thank you both for making today the best Mother's Day ever! 


I guess I better start planning for Father's Day...