Alexandra's Class

We went to watch Alexandra during her ice skating class a couple of weeks ago. Here are some photos - I took video too, but for some reason can't get the dang things to upload so I can share them. Me and technology, always a love-hate relationship:

There she is, in the pink with her teacher in blue.

Following the teacher's instructions!

CON-CEN-TRA-TION

Afterwards - dinner!

See you soon!

Hip to Be Square

We had a lovely walk around the neighborhood the other day, and LM was sporting his larger-than-his-face sunglasses. Here are some photos:

And after the walk, in the front yard, playing with "swords"

And, that's a wrap.

See you soon!

A Boy-Friendly Valentine: Superheros!

Again, I found this on Pinterest and copied the idea to make it my own. The original blogger has a template you can use with white card stock. I didn't read it carefully and had purchased colored card stock, so I used her template to trace out my own capes and masks.

I should say that S and I did this little craft exercise on our own, without the help of the boy, while he took a massive four hour nap on Saturday. I should also say I am incredibly stressed out with work and life in general at the moment, and this little arts and crafts activity was JUST what the doctor ordered. It got me out of my own stressed head and let me just do something fun for a while. Here are the photos and more information if you want to copy this cute idea:

There is Zakka's template, used as a tracing card.

S traced out the masks - which look a little like bikini tops here. 

We made all red masks but varied the cape colors between red, orange and pink.

S cut out the capes

I drew in the little eyes on the masks

S was very proud of this photo, so I'm including it.

While S cute out all those masks, 

I trimmed the edge of the capes and punched a hole.

Then I decorated them with the saying.

You craftier people could make this part cuter.

Then we opened the pops!

And I assembled one prototype.

So cute!

What are YOU lookin' at?

Then we assembled the other 19. Ahem.

Who was that masked man?

Only your friendly neighborhood valentine!

Fun, fun fun. LM will take them to school on Thursday for his class party. I really wanted to figure out a way to incorporate a photo of HIM in his mask on the valentine, but this will have to do, as the aforementioned stress won't allow for anything more! 

But, it would have been cute, say, on the underside of the cape.

Maybe next time.

I hope your Valentine Week is a good one. Ours will be more fun with the boy to celebrate it with, as usual. I'll share some of the other stuff we do later on.

See you soon.