Valentine Crafts

We love celebrating all the different holidays of the year. Not too surprisingly, then, that we've already begun crafting and decorating for Valentines Day. Typically for the first part of Aaron's afternoon nap I like to do crafts or baking with Nate so we've been busy lately! Thought I'd show off our recent creations.



Our little pink monkey is in the spirit!



Our cool, glowing heart



Kool-Aid frozen hearts



Numbers made with Sweethearts




I can't believe we have a little boy in our midst who is going to turn four years old in a few short weeks! Eeks! We're having Nate's birthday party at the park (our usual, it's so nice outside this time of year!)We got a great deal on a bounce house and invited some of his friends this year, a first. He's at the age now where he appreciates that part especially. Nate is very excited about his birthday and party :)

Nate is back in school and enjoying it. He's been starting to associate it with seeing friends so that's a good thing. I love picking him up-he right away starts to rant off about what he did (we can't even get to the car without him opening his folder to show me his creations of the day) what he had for snack, who he saw, where he went,etc. It's fun to know he's having a good time, playing, learning and seeing friends.

Aaron just graduated from wearing his doc-band this week, yay! However he did discover that he was no longer protected if he rolled into things :( Boo. Now he is crawling pretty fast. He also has his two front, middle teeth! For all we know more could be coming as he's still been off and on with sleeping well. Diet of formula, cereal, baby food and Motrin! Poor guy.

Poor hubby has started traveling frequently now, I'm sorry to say. Good for job security especially but he's gone every other week now, sometimes for the whole week. Yuck. He doesn't particularly enjoy it and neither do we! This past week I have started to meet a friend at the gym at the lovely hour of 5am...the only time I can do it I've found. Too hard to squeeze the time during the day and by the end of the day there's always a thousand excuses. I'm happy to say that I went four straight days! Getting up at 4:30am is difficult...but knowing someone else is relying on me to be there helps greatly. Actually, that is pretty much my biggest motivation! Now that hubby is traveling, that obviously puts a damper in those plans. I think it's going to be hard to go back and forth between getting to sleep in and having to get up. We'll see how it goes, I'm going to try hard to stick with it when Josh IS around. Surprisingly...it's given me some energy once I'm done and it's just nice to have working out done and over with for the day.

Whew. Well there you have it, an update on us all!