Valentine's Festivities

This Valentine's Day was more like Valentine's week!! Mommy was lucky enough to attend the kids school parties.  So many crafts, so much candy....ahhhh!!! We made a heart cake, and a Valentine's shoe box.  The kids loved all the festivities and as hectic as it was...we all enjoyed every minute:)

My beautiful flowers! So breathtaking:) They're still alive on our dining room table.

Sophia had to make a "Valentine's box" for her classroom for her classmates to put her Valentine's treats in.  It was packed to the top!

And mama made a heart cake...kiddies helped too of course.  Presto is sneaking a sprinkle in this picture of course.

Yummy!! Chocolate with chocolate chips and since I ran out of pink vanilla frosting the top was cream cheese!

Happy toddlers...

Presto's Room 1 class.  Mond/Wed/Fri only has 9 kids(and 7 are boys! Woah).  Giancarlo is Presto's favorite friend.  He talks about him nonstop!!

Before the Valentine's party the kids had music class.  This is what I walked into in the Hall.  A giant ring around the rosey!

Phia showing off all her Valentine's.  She wrote her name on each one.  They were little bags of teddy grahams and the tag said "Bear hugs from Sophia"

I had to run back and forth from Room 1 to Room 2 as I didn't want to miss anything.  Presto's class decorated cookies!

This face is the BEST!!

Mama and her sweet Valentine





Phia passing out her Valentine's

So proud of her box...she did such a great job

Mama and her sweet princess Valentine

Back to Presto's class where he was making this candy necklace

Back to Phia's room where the teachers had taken pictures of each child and she was doing a heart art project with the picture

Time for food!! Presto scarfed up the cupcakes FAST!



I caught Riley reading Phia a book...these two are amazing friends.



They get along so well!



As if the school festivites weren't enough...Nana came over Valentine's evening and had huge baskets for the kids.  Best. Nana. Ever.  Highlight of the baskets were the Starbuck's cards she gave the kids.  Now they can pay for their own milk and cookies!

Phia got a princess Valentine's card from Nana that she could decorate...



Presto opening his basket

Note: Woody boots always








And finally, Mommy with her handsome Valentine. We spent the 13th evening at Cafe Firenze.  Our favorite local restaurant!

Father/Daughter dance...

Presto wanted to get into the picture...just so happened he was in the middle of a drum session:)

Look at our sweet, adorable Phi!

This is something we all look forward to even though it's just Phia and Daddy's night. Phia gets sooooo excited to spend the evening with Daddy and this year Presto and I had a dinner date!Presto's favorite part of dinner(aside from being with mama of course) was the frozen yogurt desert(with 2 cones!!). Nana stayed home with Bentley as he was still very sick...but on the mend thank goodness! Knock on wood...we're all well at the moment!

She was so excited

And then asked for a picture "which my shoes mommy"

Our lil drummer boy just wouldn't put it down!

Handsomest daddy ever who Phia calls "My Prince"

Daddy stole a kiss

And Phia insisted on stealing one back

Proudest Nana in the world. These two have a very special bond.

Mama and her sweet princess

Daddy took great pictures at the dance...so proud of him

And this is too cute for words

Twinsies:)

Making the frame to put the picture of her and Daddy in

Drinking juice of course

And her bff Riley was there.  Daddy said he was chopped liver after that!

Getting her boogy on with Riley

Getting her boogy on with Daddy!

Awww

Phia all the way on the end

Then the teachers moved her smack in the middle:)

And mommy had a dinner date with Presto.  Perfect night all around!

Presto and Bunky

Presto we love you and we love how much you love your monkey. 

Preston has a lot of monkeys.  He can hardly fit in his bed he has so many.  They hang from his crib and surround him at night but there's one special monkey he calls "Bunky" that's been his favorite since he was born.  This night he decided to stick "bunky" in his shirt so he could "protect"him.

Travel Town at Griffith Park

Makes my entire heart melt.  Love them all so so so much!!

We love our little improptu day trips and we tend to take a few a month. This time we took the kids to Travel Town. Bentley's been battling an ear infection and croup but we had to get them out of he house and he was in great spirits while we were there. The kids favorite part was the train ride around the park.


Our bear was so sick but managed to muster a little smile

Sweet Phia loved the choo choo's too!





All 3 munchkins



Love the concentration





I love this one.  I literally said "say cheese" and this is what I got...not one of them looking at me and a complete Bentley meltdown:(

They LOVED this train ride!



Oh how our Presto loves trains!

Phia was chosen to say "All Aboard" into the mic...such a lil' ham:)



All the kids playing inside at the model train area