Valentine's Day Celebration Part 2

When the kids got up, they found monkeys, balloons, roses, and a bag of candy that Chad left before he went to work.

 

Breakfast pancakes

 

I found these on pinterest and they're so easy. Just divide the batter and color half of it. After you make the pancakes, use a cookie cutter to cut a heart out of the middle of each one and then switch the cut out hearts so they're in different colored pancakes. I also put a little food color in their milk to make it pink.

 

Lunch: heart shaped tortilla pizza with pepperoni cut to spell I <3 U, strawberries, strawberry applesauce with a few Valentine sprinkles

 

Books we read

 

The girls' flowers and mine.

 

Table set for dinner

 

We always have a special dinner where everyone dresses up, we light candles and turn down the lights, and Colin acts like he's our waiter (always with a fake moustache). Makes me a little teary seeing this picture because I know it won't be long until he can grow a real moustache and that there can't be many years left where he'll want to spend Valentine's Day with us.

 

After dinner, we all played Valentine bingo.

 

 

 

The kids made lots of Valentines for us and each other. The girls made so many that we each got a gift bag full of them.

To see some of the fun things we did before Valentine's Day, see part 1.

Valentine's Day Celebration Part 1

I bought these cute platters and bowls on clearance at Target last year and wanted a reason to use them so I decided to have a little family Valentine party yesterday afternoon. We hung some decorations and made some snacks. The girls had fun helping us make all the stuff.

 

 

Pink heart shaped Rice Krispie treats, marshmallows dipped in pink chocolate, and pretzel rods dipped in white chocolate.

 

 

The girls made some heart crayons. I've been collecting broken crayons in a container for a while. They unwrapped them and put them in these ice trays. We baked them in the oven at 200 degrees until they melted. Then we let them cool and popped them out of the trays.

 

 

I made some heart shaped banana muffins for breakfast this morning.

 

Our Week: Marshmallow Molecules, 100 Days, and Cupcakes

This week seems to have gone by really quickly. My hubby was away in Canada for work so I expected the week to drag by. We were all glad to have him come home Thursday night. Colin was excited to hear about anything hockey he saw while there. He also brought some gifts for the kids.

Colin started running a fever Monday around noon and felt really tired the rest of that day and Tuesday. Thankfully, that's all he got and so far no one else has been sick.


We had a Valentine party with some homeschool friends. The girls decorated these cupcakes for the party.

We also had our 100th day of school (at least it was the 100th day that I've remembered to mark down). It's not something we normally pay attention to, but I got the girls one of those countdown posters at the beginning of the year. We've been really bad about remembering to put the apples on. Molly asked to do it on Monday so I decided I better see how many we had missed. Our state requires I keep an attendance sheet for the kids so I went through and counted the days I had checked and found that Tuesday was the 100th day. Since Colin wasn't feeling well, we waited until Friday to do anything. With the cake left over from the Valentine cupcakes, I made 2 circle cupcakes and a rectangle cake. The kids each decorated one of them and then we put them together to resemble 100.

Science

We seem to be staying a week behind with our chemistry experiments. This week we made molecules from marshmallows. The girls spent most of their time eating them though. Colin had to fill out things in his lab book to go along with it so he had to do more.

We read the next chapter about chemical reactions.

History and Geography

In history, we read about Isaac Newton, Locke, and changes in farming.

We started learning about Pennslyvania. We'll continue with that next week.

Happy Valentine's Day

Banana Muffins

Top: heart person PB sandwich
Left: bear PB&J
Right: Cheese tortilla love bug

Heart sucker made from candy canes

The kids decorated cupcakes one day

Cookies we made to share with friends at the park

Colin and Caleigh with their gift bags

Molly with gifts from her bag

One of our traditions is a nice dinner where everyone dresses up. We dim the lights and light candles. Colin dresses as a waiter and serves us. He thinks it's so fun and takes it very seriously.

Girls dressed up

Colin the waiter with the paper moustache he made

 

Colin serving drinks. He insists that we get juice that looks like it's in a wine bottle.

Dessert

Valentine's Day Study

We spent a few days reading Valentine's books and doing activities relating to them last week. Here are some of the books we read:



They made these heart people:

Here are the notebook pages: 



We worked on how to address an envelope, what happens to a valentine when you mail it, and the symbols of Valentine's Day. We also matched holidays to the months of the year. I made them each a pocket to store the valentines they received.

Although he wasn't too happy about it, Colin wrote a poem. Here it is:

I hate poems
Oh yes I do
How they bother me 
So now this poem is done and I am free.

Valentine's Day

My kids love holidays and expect a celebration for every one. I decorated the dining room after they went to bed. 

For breakfast, we had pink heart shaped pancakes. Colin made heart shaped sandwiches for lunch. He and Chad also made some chocolate covered strawberries.

The girls were very happy with the roses Chad brought them.

Everyone got some small gifts.

Chad made dinner and Colin was our waiter. Here he is showing us the "wine" offerings.

Dessert was heart shaped brownies.