Eleanor falls asleep while eating lunch...

Valentine's Day Happenings

The girls were super excited to celebrate Valentine's Day this year.  They both had parties at school, and Alice really enjoyed making her "minion" valentines for her friends, which was totally her idea.  She is a true "Despicable Me" fan.  Here are some shots I took of the girls during the Valentine's Day festivities.

Alice worked very hard on her minion valentines for her classmates.  I found a printable on Pinterest, and we wrapped the "clothes" around Twinkies and then personalized them with heart-shaped tags that Alice helped to decorate.

 

 

 

We also went to the Valentine's Day crafts event at our library.   Alice worked diligently on cutting out her paper hearts while Eleanor licked the scissors... 

 

 

 

The girls wore their new outfits sent to them from Mimi for the big day.  I tried hard to get a shot with them both looking at me, but it just wasn't in the cards :-(

 

 

 

Jeff was off work that day, so we both got to attend the girl's school parties.  Alice is so excited about these holiday events that she can barely eat and spends most of her time grinning or waving at us. 

 

 

 

We peeked out in the hall just in time to see Eleanor's class riding the wagon back to their classroom. This picture is a little blurry, but seeing this wagon with all of the kiddos on it was the cutest thing!

 

 

 

Alice wore the necklace we made together during the "craft" segment of the party 

 

 

 

Later, we went to Eleanor's classroom party, which mostly just consisted of watching babies eat snacks.  When we arrived, we noticed El was sitting alone and not at the group table.  When we asked, it was explained to us that she likes to steal the other children's food. 

 

 

 

When she was done with her snacks, we had to see if this was true, so we sat her at the group table.

 

 

Pretty much immediately, she spotted the other girls snacks and went in for the kill.

 

Afterwards, the little girl kept her hands on her cup, and her eyes on Eleanor! 

 

 

 

Here is an illustration by Alice of she and Eleanor on Valentine's Day 

A trip to the Discovery Center

     The weather here in Amarillo has been very cold and we haven't been able to get out and do much lately.  Last week we had high temperatures around 8 degrees. (Seriously!)  We decided to take the girls to the Don Harrington Discovery Center to help beat the winter blahs.  If you have never been to the Discovery center, it is packed with science related activities, play and discovery areas, and programs for children.  Our girls both ran and played until they were completely out of steam.  Here are some pictures from our trip:

 

Alice the construction worker

 

 

Eleanor the "pint-sized" explorer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing with new friends

 

 

 

The girls climbed and played so hard!  I think we were all ready for them to burn off some of the extra energy saved up from being trapped indoors during the most recent arctic blast.

 

 

 

 

Hopefully there will be warmer weather in store for the rest of February.  Otherwise I think we will find ourselves frequenting the Discovery Center every weekend ;-)