At least that's my excuse for not posting a single thing the whole month of February. I have a lot of other excuses too, like laziness, but I'll spare you. Here's a recap of our February.
We had a western dress up day at school. And I actually got my kids to look semi-western. Huston even wore boots! Though he kept expressing over and over that he didn't want to wear "the hat." Arden did wear "the hat" and the boots too. Somehow we managed to miss the rodeo this year (I'm not the biggest fan), but the kids did get to go to the Stock Show with Mimi and Grandpa.
Here's a random picture from February 7th, when the weather was nice and I had what I thought was the awesome idea to set up these two tents in our backyard connected by a tunnel. I thought the kids would have a blast and would be entertained for hours and I would get so much housework done and it would be a win win. Yeah...not so much. Instead I spent 15 minutes setting everything up and hauling all their toys out there, only to have them be bored with it in 5 minutes. I insisted they stay outside for at least 20 minutes because of all the trouble I had gone to, which lead to Arden crying at the back door, "Mommmmy, I just want to come inside now! When can I come in?!" Not the best day.
Here are the kids at school the day before Valentine's day, dressed for their Valentine's parties. The loved passing out and getting candy from their friends. For days afterwards, Arden would call from her bedroom, "Can I look at my Valentine's candy?" and then she would dump out her bag and sort through all of her treats and treasures.
So glad I took their pictures in front of a dead bush, instead of one of the beautiful trees in the background, by the way.
I popped down to Huston's class for his party while my class was having their nap. Can I just say that I am still so in love with the fact that he finally wears these adorable little hats that they make? For so long he refused to wear anything on his head, and now he happily wears his party gear. It makes me so happy! How cute does he look with his little popsicle stick full of glue making a Valentine?!
We had a special little Valentine's dinner at home on Valentine's day. I set the table and hung up some hearts that Huston and Arden made at school for decorations. Then I asked Huston to write our names on some red heart cut outs and put them on the plates. He had so much fun doing that, that he decided to also draw his own hearts and cut them out and write everyone's first initial on them. Then Arden woke up from her nap and was sad that she didn't get to help decorate, so she put stickers on some pink hearts and put them on everyone's plates. Huston had so much fun with the whole process, that the very next day he started working on some eggs with our names for our Easter dinner, he said.
We had a really fun little candlelit dinner and I could leave you with that perfect image and leave out the part about how I made a pasta dish with cream cheese in it, even though I know Clarke doesn't like cream cheese, thinking you wouldn't be able to taste it, and then I tasted it and you totally could taste it, so he ended up having leftovers for our "special" Valentine's dinner, but that wouldn't be honest, would it? Nothing says "I love you" like cooking food you know your spouse doesn't like.
Here's a funny "Who's on First?" conversation between Huston and Arden a few days ago to end this little recap on high note:
Arden to Huston: "This candy is mines."
Huston: "No, Arden, it's not mines it's mine."
Arden: "It's not yours, it's mines."
Huston: "But Arden, you don't say 'it's mines' you say 'it's mine."
Arden: "Mommy, is this candy mines?"
