February weekend

How is it ALREADY mid-February?!  Seems like we just barely started 2012 and we only have a week and a half left in this month!  CrAzY!  We had a nice weekend.  Just did a lot of hanging out at home because it rained all day Saturday and Riley-Roo had a bad cold.  However, we snuck in a few fun things too! 

Reid & I played blocks... a LOT.  :)

Reid had a meeting with his little adventure guides group Sunday afternoon and they had a ball! They did a pirate themed scavenger hunt inside the house.   

They ended the scavenger hunt by digging for gold coins in the sandbox. Rodney said Reid had fun and I think the boys did too!  I love that he & Rodney are members of this little Dad & son group.  I hope they make lots of fun memories together. :)

Reid's Valentine Party

Reid had a precious little Valentine party at his preschool yesterday and the teachers said we were welcome to come up & stay for the party if we wanted.  I was very excited to get to be "in" on one of his little parties and see what they were up to.  :)  Reid seemed pretty happy to see me & I was equally as happy to be there to get to share in something so fun with him! 

Miss Tina reading The Night Before Valentines Day.  

 

 

Reid making a Valentine crown. 

All of his little classmates making their Valentine "people." 

My Prince Reid.  Love this boy!

Reid & one of his teachers, Miss Cindy. 

 Such sweet ladies that teach my boy every week!

Passing out his little Valentines cards.

I loved EVERY stinkin' minute of being at the party with Reid yesterday.  It was fun to help him do crafts, pass out his Valentines and just watch him be in his little world of preschool.  I don't get to see him in this environment, so it was neat for me to be in on it for a short time.  

 

As it was time for the parents to leave, I was saying good-bye to Reid & blowing him kisses and then all of a sudden, I look up and he's got little crocodile tears in his eyes and the bottom lip is just a-quiverin'!  Oh no!  I felt so bad for him, but it was just precious & so sweet that he was sad to see his mama go!  Ahhhh.... can I just freeze him at age 4?

Happy Heart Day 2012

Valentine's Day 2011

My Valentine boys 2012

Me & sweet Reid

From my sweet Valentine Hubs.  I seriously HEART this man!

 We had a fun Valentine's morning and Reid was excited about his Valentine box he got from us.  Riley was more excited about the balloons I got from Rodney.  Whatever works, right?  

I went up to Reid's school this morning and helped him make some Valentine crafts & pass out his Valentine cards to his classmates.  Very sweet. Loved getting to do that with him. 

 More pictures to come.... 

Happy Heart Day-- as Reid calls it. :)   

Hope you are feelin' the love today! 

Reid's Class Valentines

So this was Reid's first official year to hand out Valentines in his class.  With the "teacher-ness" in me, I got just a wee bit excited about all of this and started searching around to find something fun & cute... and of course "boy."  I had fun putting these little Valentine "bugs" together for his party tomorrow!  

I found this adorable little mason jar on this blog.... it got my wheels a-turnin'!

Then I found these cute little insects on this site to paste onto the jars to complete the Valentine.  I just attached them with some scrapbooking glue dots.

I tried to pick only the 'cute' insects... no icky spiders or roaches.  That doesn't really say I love you, does it?

I was hunting around on Etsy the other day and found these to add to the valentine.

I hope Reid's classmates like these... the girls may not be so hip on them, but I thought they turned out pretty darn cute! :)

Then I saw this last night before the boys went to bed... this is better than any Valentine I have ever been given.  Seriously.  MELT. MY. HEART. 

Valentine crafts & pancake fun

Reid & I have had a little fun this weekend working on some Valentine crafts.  I've never been much for decorating for Valentine's, but as the boys get older, I find myself wanting to decorate for every holiday!  As Valentine's Day approaches, Reid & I have talked a lot about what it means & why we celebrate this day.  It's really important to me to help him understand what love is all about & why it's a big deal to show love to your friends & family.  He's such a sweet boy.  I think he gets it.... :)

Reid made a few hand print hearts to send to the grandparents. 

The finished product.  He made the hand prints and I wrote a little note around the hands in the shape of a heart. 

I found our heart shaped pancake molds and we had a little Valentine breakfast this morning!

 I LOVE blog world.... so many cool print outs you can download for FREE!!!

This is my favorite.

I tried my hand last night at my own little V-day craft.  A Valentine banner made out of pages from an old book, scrapbook paper, old buttons, a stapler and twine.  Easy as pie!  Took me all of about 20 minutes to make.  Best part.... FREE!  

My husband likes those kinds of crafts... the free ones that is.  :)

Happy heart day!  Hope you & your little ones are having fun making and baking! 

My Little Valentines

As we were getting ready this morning, I turned around to find this....

And a little more of this.... seriously melting my heart!  Riley- Roo is our little love bug.  Who would've guessed?!

These two.... Love them!

Will you be Mommy's Valentine sweet Lindsay boys?

Children's Museum

On Wednesday this week, we made a trip to the Children's museum in Fair Park.  I had never taken the boys there, and thought I had never been there myself.  However, upon arriving, I realized I had been there on at least 2 field trips there with students I have taught in the past.  This is the museum of nature & science-- the place where the I-Max theater is.  It was SO fun to take the boys and let them experience all the fun little toddler activities.  I had never gotten to see any of that since I taught elementary aged kiddos! 

They had the most precious "farm" exhibit with tractors, a cow to milk, and chickens with pretend eggs. Reid was in heaven!

Reid's sweet friends that joined us: Gabi, & Matthew

Reid "milking a cow."  Water actually came out when he milked it, and this was truly the highlight of his trip.  Awesome!

There was a little red fire truck with a cute little slide attached.  Complete with fireman coats & hats to put on and pretend they were really driving a fire truck!

Cute water table to play at.  Thank goodness for the water proof vests they provided!

Riley-Roo had a ball riding on the little John Deere tricycles in the farm area.

Reid & his buddies playing firemen-- L to R

Reid, Jack & Alex

What a fun day!  Can't wait to go back again.  Such a perfect play place for toddlers to pretend and just be kids!  Loved it.  :) 

p.s. Sorry some of these pictures are so out of focus. The lighting in there wasn't great for a camera phone! :)