Valentine's Day or Valentine's Week

We started on Monday and Ended on Thursday making Valentine's for all of Etta's friends. With a toddler they will only do a project or activity for 5-10 minutes and then it is off to something else. So with bracelets for the girls, painting toy trucks or airplanes for the boys and cards it was going to have to be 5 minutes here and there until they were done.
For the girls we made pretty jelly bracelets with little trinkets on them. Etta picked out colors for each of her friends and I put the bracelets together. For the boys we got out the paint so Etta could have some fun. She enjoyed painting with blue, orange, purple and green but by the last toy she had mixed all the colors and thought that was pretty cool. The cards were simple. I just cut our hearts glued them to some paper and let her color on them for her own little touch. Those took the longest because she only would do 3 at once and we had to make about 15 of them. It was fun to do something a little different then candy.

Etta had a ton of fun painting her Valentine's.

Gibby just liked getting his picture taken.

For Andy we made him a homemade Apple pie and some fun cards. He was really excited to eat the pie and took the cards to his work for his desk. Thursday morning he took us all out to breakfast. We went to Eggs in the City (one of my Favorites). We ordered whatever we wanted. He had dinner plans for Me on Friday, gave Etta a cute little "tootles" headband toy from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Gibby got stacking rings. We were spoiled and loved treats from our special Daddy Valentine.

Etta with her cute "tootles".

On Friday we went to Music Makers where we did fun Valentine's songs, ate goodies and played with friends. Etta enjoyed the suckers while Gibby just wanted to play with the toys.

Gibby just chillin' while all the other kids play around him.

Etta having fun on the teeter totter. Trying to get a group picture.

That night we dropped the kids off at our Friends house and Andy took me to the Pine Restaurant in Murray. It was delicious and I loved being just us together for a couple of hours. Then instead of dessert there we went to Maggie Moo's for some Ice Cream (again my Favorite).

I enjoy Valentine's and love how it is a special day to remind us how much we love the people in our lives.