Be Mine

Valentine's Day is kind of like Christmas in that it's really fun when you're really little, kind of gets less fun as you get older (although Valentine's Day gets less fun much faster than Christmas--5th and 6th grade awkwardness anyone?), and then it gets really fun again when you have kids.  Emilia can write her own Valentines now and it made this Valentine's Day super cute.  I love this one she made for Steve.  For those of you who are experts in following the direction of 5 year olds' writing, it says, "I lik yoor flufy her. frum Emi" (I like your fluffy hair, from Emi) across the top.  (The pictured people are all boys because they all have "fluffy" hair.) Along the side and bottom it says, "I love you. I love playing ponys dady. I love hoow you play with me."

We all wore pink or red on Valentines day.  Before taking Emilia to school, they were all awake, so I made them pose for a selfie. :)

As I said in my previous post, Cecily has been having a bit of a problem with poop lately.  See how cute she looks in that polka-dot onesie in the above picture? Well here's a funny story for you:

Cecily and Mira are usually napping when I need to go pick up Emilia, so I have an arrangement with my neighbor that she listens for the other girls so I don't have to wake them up. I also usually wait until the last minute to leave, so the neighbor is bothered for the least amount of time possible. 
On Friday, I heard Cecily cry about 2:40.  Emilia gets out of school at 2:45 and I was going to leave in about 3 minutes.  I decided to wait and see if Cecily would go back to sleep because she is sick and sometimes cries out and then goes back to sleep.  Also, she hadn't been asleep very long.
Well, she didn't go back to sleep, so I thought, "All right, I'll just go in and throw her in her carseat and we'll go."  When I walked in, she was on her hands and knees in the crib and this is what I see:

Covered in poop. I had to strip her down, clean all that poop off of her, get her dressed again, put her in the carseat and then drive to get Emilia.  I didn't get there until 3pm. Argh.

I have no idea why Mira was doing this, but she was very impressed with herself.  "Look, Momma! I walking on markers!"

We didn't plan on doing much to celebrate, but I did make us a nice dinner and decorated the table.  Here is my cute family just before we ate.

We also ate sugar cookies and chocolate cake and watched A Monster in Paris which was a very strange cartoon about a flea who gets enlarged (is that the opposite of shrunken?) and given a beautiful singing voice.  Of course the flea is unfairly targeted by the ambitious commissioner and branded as a "monster." The heros and heroines know the truth about this very nice flea (who apparently never needs to eat even though he is incredibly large) and save him while revealing what a terrible person the commissioner is. So. Weird.

At least we got to watch the weirdness together, right?

I hope you all had a good Valentines Day, too!