Valentines n Stuff

The week before Valentines, Liam got invited to a birthday party for a friend from school.  They went to one of those bow-up toy places. He had a blast.

In the goody bag he got a small car, a stamp, and some stick-on mustaches.  He wasted no time stamping himself on the forehead, and he and Reese utilized the mustaches pretty quickly after he got home.

And then Reese found the stamp and made sure her forehead got stamped, too.

Valentines.  Valentines isn't a huge holiday at our house.  Will got me a box of my favorite candy, Zours.  That's about it.  

Reese did pass out Valentines at her school.  We had a last-minute crisis the on Valentine's eve when we realized we couldn't use any of Reese's personalized Valentine cards that I purchased in a big bunch two years ago, because they say "from Reese" on them, and in Reese's class she's not "Reese", she's "Shareese" because there's another Reese.  If she handed out those, everyone would think that it was from the other girl.  I had Will run to the dollar store and by then they were out of variety.  Reese is pretty girly, but she ended up having to hand out Phineas and Ferb Valentines.

I made up for it by helping her make a girly Valentine box.  Her favorite color is red, so we used red wrapping paper.  Then she glued hearts and decorations on it.

Liam's class didn't do boxes, but he got jealous so we put one together for him, anyway.

At school she got to wear a big conversation heart.  All the kid's hearts said "te quiero" on one side from their Spanish class. (For the record, I did make it to the school and help out with the Valentines festivities- that's the second class party I've helped with even while being in school myself.)

That night we went to visit family for the long weekend, and got taken out to Chick-fil-A by Gramma and Grampa Faber.  Yay!

A week later, Valentines is over, and Reese had her first big childhood scrape-up when she tripped and landed face-first on the driveway.  Knees, hands, face, bloody nose, the whole shebang. She got lots of band-aids.  Also, Liam's school had a theme week on the week of Valentines, and one of the dress-up days was "fake injury day" and we wrapped his head in a bandage.  Reese decided that wrapping her head in a bandage like Liam had would help her feel better.

Looks like it worked.