Hearts Party

To celebrate Valentine's Day, Alex's school held a Hearts Party at the end of the day today. The kids wore red and pink to get into the spirit.

Alex models his party outfit with his buddy Ox.



Arts and crafts at the party. They were supposed to be painting wooden hearts and flowers, but Alex decided to follow his friend Dava's lead and paint his hand.



His favorite teacher from his infant room, Ms. Rahel, came by for a visit.



Playing with farm puppets.



Showing off his haul. There is a wagon full of crackers by the door at school and he gets to take one pack of each kind of cracker as we leave. He also has his goodie bag full of valentines from his classmates and teachers.

Happy Valentine's Day from us!

More Sleepover Fun

We always have fun when Cecily comes over!

Playing guitar together.





Working hard at the tool bench.



Playing Night-Night.



Reading a favorite from my childhood, "The Amazing Mumford and His Amazing Subtraction Trick, featuring lovable, furry, old Grover."



It took a little bit of encouragement, but we finally got them to share the chair.

Birthday Party Fun

Alex had tons of fun at his friend Garret's birthday party yesterday. There was so much to do and so many friends to play with.

We did lots of sliding, as there were about half a dozen different climbing toys with slides!



The "sand" box was full of rice and was a favorite spot all day long.



And, of course, there was delicious cake from Sweet Mandy B's!



Plus, lucky Alex gets to have more birthday fun today at a party for his friend Nicholas!

How Did You Sleep?

In the mornings, Dave and I usually talk about what kind of night's sleep we had. At some point we must have either had this conversation in front of Alex or asked him if he had a good night's sleep because he now says the following first thing every morning when we go into his room: "I had a good night's sleep!"

I hope he always does.

A Mini-Concert From Alex

Alex loves to sing and to play his guitar, and we finally got some decent footage of this to share. For some reason we could only get one video to upload, so we'll try the other one later.

Even though the holidays are over, winter isn't, so "Jingle Bells" is still in season, right?!

Watch What You Say

Alex apparently is going to be a stickler for precision. Here is our conversation from the end of dinner tonight as I'm clearing the table.

Me: Dave, can I take your plate for you?

Alex: It's not a plate, it's a bowl.

Me: You're right, it's a bowl.

Alex: It's a bowl, Mommy.

Our Little Chef

Alex loves his play kitchen (in fact, he's "cooking" there right now), and we've recently started having him help in the real kitchen. The other day he helped put cut up squash in a bowl, and this morning he helped me make scones. Alex "painted" the milk on the top of the scones and sprinkled on the sugar. Then we all enjoyed the fruits of his labor and had yummy scones for breakfast! I hope your day got off to as good of a start as ours did.