Our Two Funny Valentines

Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm a sucker for a Hallmark holiday and Valentine's Day is no exception.  This year, I channeled my inner-stay-at-home-mom and with a little help from Finley, we made some awesome valentines to mail to our friends and family.  Finley kindly let me paint his feet to use his footprints and then I added some details with markers.

One design was a race car (built for 2):

 The second was a dump truck full of heart stickers that Finley stuck on.

I addressed all the cards and after school one day, we went to the post office to mail them.  Finley loves going to the post office though after one ridiculously long lined visit, he always asks me if it will be too crowded when we go.  He carefully dropped in all the cards and then asked to be lifted up so he could look in and make sure his cards landed in the basket (which they did).

Now my lifelong love of sending and receiving mail may be a tough one to pass on to our techno-modern-aged children, but I'm going to try!  Finley asked why we were sending cards and so I said it would make our friends/family happy on Valentine's Day, but it did occur to me that he might want to experience some of that same mailbox joy so I emailed some of the people we sent cards to see if they could send our little mailman some valentines.  Asked and received! Our mailbox was overflowing by the 14th and Finley had fun opening cards from his huge stack of mail.  Among many, he got a great Cars card from GG, a 3-d penguin card from Aunt Caitlin, a sports card from Grammy ("look mommy, a hockey ball!" aka a puck), and even a homemade one from Aunt Ellie and Uncle Donny. Check it out!!

Our local friends also heeded the call and Finley was excited to get cards from Charlotte, Aliza&Levi, Nola, and Darwin. With all those cards to read and look at plus the cards he got from his friends at school, our kitchen table was covered in paper, hearts, and love :) Thanks, everyone!

Along with their sweet cards, my parents sent each of the kids a Valentine's shirt.  Finley proudly wore his "drums and heart" shirt and then we put on a heart tattoo on his arm.  

Dagny needed long sleeves that morning since she can't wear a sweatshirt over her shirt (not good for fear of suffocation) to school yet like Finley, so we will save her adorable, sparkly heart onesie for later.  We did have some pants with little hearts on them, though, so we made it work.  Here she is dressed for the day with her bunny lovey, Hops.

 Our two lovebugs on Valentine's Day :)

 Dan brought home some lovely roses and we're going out to dinner Saturday night when we were able to secure a sitter.  A real date! Thank you, Hallmark, for all that you do to further February 14th as a fun day to show everyone how much you love them :)