Valentine's Day

January and February are kind of quiet months around here.  Just trying to find a new normal after the busy holiday season and the cold weather doesn't help!!!

Back in January, Addie had been begging us to let her have a party with some friends.  Apparently, we "never" let her have them.  We looked at the calendar and saw that Valentine's Day was going to be on a Friday this year and thought it would be a good reason to have a party! Maybe give a few parents a little break or a chance to get out and it would squelch the incessant asking from Addie! 

We let her invite a few friends from school and a few friends from the neighborhood.  We also let Will invite a friend to come so he wouldn't be bothering the girls or so he wouldn't be bored.  We ordered pizza and had some fruit punch, strawberries and chips to go with it for dinner.  After they were all done eating, we brought out our awesome BINGO game.  Each time they got a bingo, they got to pick a couple treats from the treat jar for the movie afterward!  We just kept playing till someone got blackout.  

 

After BINGO, the girls headed down to the basement with their treats and some popcorn to watch The Princess Diaries and the boys stayed upstairs to watch a movie.   Sam just wanted to be in on the action and we found him in the middle of the girls and also with the boys just hanging out! He was not happy when he had to go to bed and miss out on the rest of the fun! 

 

By the end of the evening, Will and his friend, Collin, were wrestling with each other.  Will thought he was so funny taking his shirt off to wrestle.  If only he wasn't so skinny! We feed him, I promise!

Downstairs, the girls were all playing house in the tiny little play area under the stairs!!! 
 

It was a fun night!

A few other Valentine notables...

Addie had to make her Valentine Box into a Biography Book Report on Walt Disney.  We made it look like Mickey Mouse.  The legs, buttons, tail and feet/shoes were her idea and she even free-handed the feet herself!  It turned out pretty cute! 

 

 

Sam was loving the constant flow of candy and "choco" (chocolate)!