I Heart You

Happy Valentine's Day. We're not really the mushy-gushy, candlelight dinner, gift-giving sorts when it comes to this particular holiday, but we do believe in pink and red construction paper and heart shaped foods (all the way!). Plus, we had a supa fun Valentine's Day Party for school (can't let those regular schoolers have all the fun ;) that sneakily incorporated learning with all the fun and games (sssh! don't tell the kids!). We finished the day off with a little excursion to Fat Cats (Sam's reward for the 31 Day Read Aloud Challenge) and picked up sushi from Smith's for dinner on the way home. Fancy-fancy! ;)

Gregg has been making these Valentines from construction paper
for a handful of years now and the kids (and I) love what he comes up
with!

Heart shaped french toast for the win!

And strawberry milk - because it's pink!

Dad gets the french toast crusts - ha!

I wrote down all the Valentinesy activities
for the school day on pink sticky notes in the shape
of a heart on the wall and the kids got to take turns
picking one off to see what came next.

Snowflake math puzzles (thank you library!)
aren't heart shaped, but it's winter so it works!

These were also good for scissor practice! ;)

The moment we've all been waiting for! Chemistry!
Aka slime!!

It was an interesting idea, but not my best pie overall.
(This was our super secret special dessert for Gregg.)

And if apple pie wasn't enough sugar, of course we
had to decorate cookies, too. (Which we shared with our
neighbors.)

More math: Candy heart graphing!

Reading time! (Yes, we did read this entire stack of Valentine's books!)

Here's the whole shebang, once we were done.

Fat Cats fun was the cherry on top!

 Skinamarinky Dinky Dink, Skinamarinky Doo, I love you!