Valentine's Festivities

 We started out our Day Before Valentine's Day with some heart-shaped pancakes.  Knowing that we have no time for such things on weekdays, Sunday was the perfect day to make them.  They were delicious and we even had some left over for Ayden's breakfast on Valentine's morning!

Ayden wrote his name on his Valentine cards for the first time.  It took him f-o-r-e-v-e-r to write his name 12 times.

On a side note, why don't I ever think to have Ayden put on real clothes or at least matching pajamas when I take pictures of him on the weekends?  While I am ok with admitting that he wears his pjs almost all day on Saturdays when we don't have anywhere to go, someday, someone will look at these pictures and wonder if he ever wore real (or matching) clothes!

I was treated to a basket full of goodies from my two favorite guys.  Ayden helped pick out the things he though I liked (socks?!?).  But somebody remembered wine, so it was all good!

After breakfast, Ayden and I got started on the treats for his class. I got the idea for chocolate-dipped strawberry marshmallows here.  They were so fun and easy!  Ayden helped for about the first five of them, then moved on.

All finished!

 I decided to put them in cellophane bags rather than sending them all to school on a plate.  I thought I'd give his teacher the option of sending them home rather than the kids eating more sugar at school.  Ayden taped each bag to a card all by himself!

My little ham

 Monday afternoon Ayden had swimming lessons, so we need a quick and easy (but still yummy & special) dinner.  I decided heart-shaped mini pizzas would be perfect....and they were!

 

Ready to eat!!

We did chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert and I ended up using all of the chocolate I got from my students during the day....it made some delicious fondue! 

Whose idea was it to give the four year old a sharp metal stick?

My two valentines!