sickies...

we've had sickness over here...for the last week or so. turns out ethan had the actual influenza-take-tamiflu-sickness along with a nasty cough. blake had bronchitis (and still sounds yucky) and avery just developed a cough...we'll see if hers turns into anything.

i was able to finish that heart garland i wanted to make...being inside all day for days in row helps i guess. i enlisted the kids to help me, i'd cut all the hearts out already and just had them hand me in no particular order to sew and i think they turned out very cute:)

ethan decided he wanted to make round crayons for his classmates for valentine's day so we did that the other day as well...i used this tutorial from Make and Takes and it was very easy and fun. i had the kids take the papers off the crayons and they enjoyed it quite a bit! then we broke them into pieces and in the case of some of the really large crayons, cut them with a knife into smaller pieces. but i think i would cut them even smaller next time because they took longer to melt than she indicated in the tutorial...i think just because they were so thick and chunky to begin with....

in pieces ready to melt...

excited...

cooling...

avery using them!

front of valentine bags

back of valentine bags