Sophie prefers handmade Valentines to store-bought and spent several days making Valentines for her class. She had a little meltdown after making 24 of them and said the job was too big. She soldiered on, though, and finished 14 more (that's right, there are 37! kids, a teacher and an aide in her class.)
Abe decorated sugar cookies for his class Valentine's Day party. The school strongly discourages bringing homemade food for parties, but Abe got permission to bring some cookies that he could eat. You'd never guess these delicious cookies were wheat, egg and dairy free.
Gibson decorated his own cookie.
Our tradition is to have a candlelight breakfast on Valentine's Day and exchange homemade Valentines with each other. We had chocolate waffles with strawberries, cream and hot fudge sauce. Oh my!
Cookies downstairs, carpentry upstairs-- it's been a bit of kid heaven around here this week. Brandan started work on replacing the flooring in the kids' bedrooms this week. First he pulled out the carpet. We were amazed with the amount of dust let loose by the carpet.
Brandan started installing the wood floor on Saturday. He borrowed an air-powered stapler to speed the job along. Brandan got about 2/3 of one room done, before Helen fell and split the back of her head open on the piano downstairs. Then he set aside his handyman skills to be Dr. Dad and stitch Helen up. Helen was anxious about the shot he gave her to numb her head, but relaxed and actually fell asleep while he sewed her up. Helen got 6 stitches.
4 comments:
Can we borrow Brandon for about a year to redu our home??? Just kidding, we are learning one job at a time and feel great joy as we finish each one. Sorry about Helen's stitches, but they may match one on the back of your head, Becky, interestingly gotten on the edge of our piano when you were 3.
What a handy guy Brandan is to have around! I can't believe that Gibson is looking so grown up. And, how do you all stay so thin eating breakfasts like that??
Wow, these floors will be beautiful! And easy to clean! We've had sick (vomiting) kids all weekend and wood floors would be much easier in this situation than carpet! How nice to have a DR. in the house for those emergency head splitting problems. . . and I am really impressed with Sophie's valentines. . . what a trooper.
What a fun tradition on Valentine's morning! Sounds like the kids really enjoy the holiday and making homeade Valentines - Becky you are amazing for teaching them how to enjoy the homeade things in life. Love that Brandan can be fixing the house one minute and stitching up a sleeping child the next - what an awesome bro I have. We love you guys!
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