Before February is over...

...let me squeeze in our Valentines Day post!

Well, this first picture is from the Super Bowl, but Ben and Madeline are wearing their Valentines Day shirts, so it counts!

Ben was all about cutie-pie Madeline, as you can see. I guess we'll know soon if he has an affinity for babies or just younger women.

As I keep harping on, I mean mentioning, the weather has given us the opportunity to spend lots of time inside. Which means it's time to get creative! I know that Ben enjoys all the art projects he does at school, so after a quick trip to the store, we set about making our own valentines!

"Ta daaaaaaa!"

We cut them all out into heart shapes and sent one to all the cousins and Nana and Grandma. (Planned to make them for the aunties too, but 10 hearts later, "we" ran out of steam.)

So here's a virtual valentine:

We also celebrated with the Little Bears in Ben's classroom.

We read some books:

And sang some songs.

Ben was still waking up from his nap, but I made up for his lack of enthusiasm about the BIG, FAT spider!

He can't resist a good sing-along for too long though!

(Here's another girlfriend-in-training, Adrian)

Soo...happy Valentines Day! And a happy St. Patricks Day too, in case I don't get to that on time either!