St. Valentine's Day 2021

 Happy Valentine's Day!  Despite the look on Isaac's face in his picture, we ALL had fun.  Since we were still in quarantine, I had the kids decide each on one activity we could do to celebrate it at home to ease the blow of missing out at school.  We played did one activity a day starting on Friday, the day they would all miss their valentine's parties at school.  

Isaac chose Conversation Heart Bingo, which was really fun, but it turns out that eating 24 SweeTarts candy hearts in one sitting is too much even for my kids.   

Esther chose I Spy Hearts.  She and I made hearts with pictures and sayings and decorations on them and put them up all over the house.  Then I created a list with a whole bunch of these hearts listed.  Then I told them if they found everything on their list they could have their little bag of candy that BFP (Brevard Family Partnership) handed out to us this week for Foster Care Appreciation week.  

Jaydon chose marshmallow and toothpick construction, mostly because he wanted to eat marshmallows.  He was SOOO excited about eating marshmallows that he got himself up and dressed and his bed made and came and got me up before 7 am on a Sunday morning.  When my autistic foster son gets himself dressed and makes his own bed and then asks for marshmallows, I give them to him.  

Isaac was mad that his construction "wasn't good enough." It tasted exactly like the rest of them, though.

Reid constructing the Eiffel Tower. Engineers.  hmph.

Mom helped Jaydon make his simple, yet elegant. heart our of heart marshmallows and toothpicks.

We had to give this little master builder a marshmallow limit and a time limit or she would have used up all the marshmallows and played with her contraptions all night.