Handmade Valentines

Seth and I loved making these Valentines for our playgroup, although I must admit I was having so much fun that I helped a little more than I originally intended. He helped cut the hearts, glued them down and added the stickers. His favorite part was "doing the tape on the lollipops."

Valentine's Sorting Activity

Seth really enjoyed this sorting activity that we did the other day. I saw this idea on various blogs, including my favorite place to snag activities. For this, I used heart ice trays that came from Target last year, a bag of foam Valentine stickers from the dollar tree and tweezers. Seth first made rows of hearts of the same color then he sorted heart, flower and bird stickers into rows by shape. He did get a little frustrated, especially when the backing coming off and the stickers were sticking to the tweezers, but did a great job. He asked to do it again with Daddy and used his hands some. :) I think we will do similar activities in the future.

Ebay Item of the Week

Vintage Fisher Price Kermit Puppet - 1978
Paid - $.50
Sold For - $33.76

This is the fourth puppet like this we have sold and it always does well!

Charlotte Weekend Photo Montage

Who knew.....

that an empty pretzel container could be so much fun?

New Do

Seth and Papa went for tandem haircuts and they look great!

Before

After

Zing! Zang! Zoom!

We had a great time at the circus, but I only got a couple of pics because my camera battery was so low! Seth, of course, loved it. He was kind of tired and was a lot more fidgety than last year, but still had a great time. He kept telling me that he was feeling "thirsty and snacky", so I went to get him a snack. As I was coming back in, the lights came up for intermission and Seth caught my eye. He was smiling in anticipation of his snack. His smile quickly faded and turned angry when he saw what I bought him - a giant soft pretzel. Apparently, this was not what he had in mind. When I got to him he said, "That isn't what I wanted. I don't want that!" Mark and I both tried to convince him how great it was - "Wow! It's a pretzel bigger than your head!!" - but it was useless. He said, "I wanted one of those really big ice cream thingies I saw." (He was talking about the twelve dollar snow cones.) So, I took him to the lobby to choose something. In the end he decided on some Dippin' Dots and a toy human cannonball. The whole thing was pretty funny and was my highlight of the night! Oh yeah, the circus was good too!