Sweet Stuff

PARTY HEARTY: This afternoon, the kids participated in a super fun Valentine's themed party.  

We arrived early to help set up and CJ was quickly (and happily) conscripted into being the party's BINGO caller. 

I was a little nervous about how that might go, because I think he'd only even played BINGO a couple of times before, but he handled it like a pro (thanks in large part to a super helpful dad of some classmates' excellent supervision). He kept at it for 1.5 hours with nary a break.

Meanwhile, Annabelle made the party rounds, making arts and crafts, including enjoying a cookie decoration station.

There were Valentines to be distributed. Annabelle made an army of cute pet rocks (see lead photo for a few examples). CJ passed out 50 fishbowls (see below for a couple). The glare in the photo makes it kind of hard to read but they say, "I'm glad we're in the same school."

Figuring there would be LOTS of sweet treats around, we opted to bring some savory stuff, and "made" heart shaped cheese, sausage, peppers and pita with various sized cookie cutters. I think I have permanent heart-shaped impressions on my palms.

Of course, the best part of a Valentine exchange is checking out all the cool cards from others afterward.

Much fun!