Valentine's Day

My little 'Balentine'

 

My Valentiny-tine

Treats from my sweets

Aunt Gigi made these adorable shirts and Hollin's headband for Valentine's Day. Z liked that his had a sailboat like Uncle Bob's. It was a 'love boat'. Zane helped me make the rice crispy hearts for their friends at Ms. Jeri's. his favorite part was obviously the sprinkles!

Coloring hearts at the babysitter's

Loving these pigtails on Ha Bear.

And the peek-a-boo

I made Zane heart-shaped waffles. He loved them. So much that he wouldn't eat them. "They're too beautiful to eat! I will be so sad!" So I gave him Hollin's regular waffles. She had no problem eating the heart-shaped ones!

Matt and I beat the crowd by going to dinner a week before V Day. We met after work last Thursday at The Wonderbar Steakhouse, an excellent restaurant here in Madison that opened in 1929. We had this table right by the fireplace, which was perfect because it was snowing hard outside!

We also had some news to celebrate....NOT baby news! More on that later.

 

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My Funny Valentines

The week before Valentine’s Day I had the great idea to dress the kids up in their new clothes from DeeDee & E and take some really cute pictures. In my mind they were gonna turn out SO cute and then I would make Valentine cards and mail them out to all our family….yeah, in my mind. In real life, as soon as I got ready to take the pictures Zane started crying and throwing a fit because he didn’t like Hollin’s polka dot rug in her room. So random! He was screaming over and over, “I.DON’T.LIKE.THAT.RUG!” When I finally got him calmed down, Hollin started crying. I think by the time I got both of them calmed down I was on the verge of tears. And then I couldn’t get both of them to look at the camera at the same time. Real life here. So here are some of the outtakes. Matt cracked up at that last one. Said that it looks like Zane is singing some soul music.Zane and I made some treats to take to his friends at Ms. Jeri’s house. This kid….he saw me with the camera and said, “You take my picture? I wanna look mad.” So here are his ‘mad face’ pictures. Are you dying? I am.Ha-Bear “helped” us, too. And, fyi, I could’ve made way more treats if a certain little three year-old hadn’t eaten half of the Hershey’s Hugs.Surprise, Surprise! Matt and I got to go on a date on Valentine’s Day! ‘Mr. Sandy’, as Zane calls him, insisted on coming over and spending the evening with Zane so that Matt and I could go to dinner. Sandy is one of the fellows that Matt works with. Zane loooves him and is convinced that the only reason he comes to our house is to play cars with him. Hollin went with us and Matt called her a statue. She never moved or made a peep the whole night. We ate at Madison’s Downtown and it was so yummy! It was nice to have adult conversation without having to worry about a spilled drink or a kid crawling around under the table.