Valentine's Week

We took advantage of Valentine's week to do a few themed activities during school.  One day, I had the girls cut out hearts and write one thing nice about each of their sisters.  It was sweet reading what they had to say :)  My favorite was Ava's heart to Madeline, which said, "you are good at being the dad."

We read a story about how Valentine's Day came about.

During math, the girls had fun graphing conversation hearts, adding their totals, and even more fun eating them :)  

The day before Valentine's Day, we had recess duty at Rose's school, so we got to see all the kids in their Valentine gear and get a few pictures.

The valentine's Rose brought to school for her classmates.

Rose and her best buddies: Mebrate and Hunter

We had a special Valentine's dinner that week, complete with a red tablecloth, candles

and heart-shaped brownie sundaes for dessert.

The eve of St. Valentine's Day, I laid out a few treats for the girls and Paul to wake up to in the morning.  I found some cute ideas on Pinterest this year that I used for their treats and made a card for the girls with whatever character they are into at the moment.  Rose, of course, had Elsa on her card and as soon as she saw it in the morning, she ran and hugged me saying it was the best card ever.  I guess Elsa was a win!

For the Husband

For Rose (she read her book in 2 days...that girl loves a new book!)

For Ava

For Madeline

For Ella

We try not to make too big of a deal about Valentine's Day, but it is hard not to when you have kids and you can have so much fun with it!