In which Lily will NOT be her sister’s valentine

I don’t care very much about Valentine’s Day, but I hate to spoil it for the kids… so…

Amelia and I baked cookies for the preschool Valentine party.  It was so much fun that I think we might have to make it a weekly tradition.  She is at the age where she’s not really helping yet, but she’s not really destroying anymore.  Well, mostly… we may have ended up with a bit of a mess when she decided to dump out the entire cup of flour I was using to roll out the dough.  She absolutely loved it though, and apparently was telling her friends and teachers all day about how she made cookies with her mommy.

We happened to have some red duds, so I staged a very successful sisterly-valentine photoshoot:

Lily was in a bit of a mood today.  Her caretaker Donna let me know that she was so difficult that she (Donna) felt like crying.  I’m pretty sure she’s still working on that second tooth, but she might just hate polka dots or bows on her head (thanks for the cute bow, Chadene!).

When we picked up Squiggles, she was all hopped up on sugar from the party.

And extremely excited about the Valentine-box-candy-inside-so-much-joy situation.

Also, Tim got us pretty flowers and sugary candy. 

In conclusion (I’m in dissertation-writing mode), happy Valentine’s day to all of our loved family and friends, even though I think it’s a dumb holiday.