It is interesting how holidays change over the years. Gone are the dinner and fancy outfit night, hello family fun.
B remembers things like my sister Victoria. If it happened once than it now becomes a tradition and can not be forgotten or changed. For the past 2 years Tom has brought the girls a Valentine's day balloon. This would be due to the fact that he has forgotten the day and found this quick and easy fix at the grocery store. So now B has it set in stone that she must receive a Valentine's Day balloon every year from Daddy. Good thing that I reminded him at 5:00am. The girls were so happy to get their huge balloons from Daddy. My bag of "gifts" were well received too. In fact since the balloon was attached to the gift bag they assumed the presents were from Daddy too. How does that work?!
For family fun we decided to go downtown to the winter snow festival. Being that there is finally grass, the snow festival was not so fun. In fact I do believe B stated that "This was dumb and can we go home now?" more than once. Her excitement picked up once we found the huge snow sculptures. They were rather neat and impressive.
B remembers things like my sister Victoria. If it happened once than it now becomes a tradition and can not be forgotten or changed. For the past 2 years Tom has brought the girls a Valentine's day balloon. This would be due to the fact that he has forgotten the day and found this quick and easy fix at the grocery store. So now B has it set in stone that she must receive a Valentine's Day balloon every year from Daddy. Good thing that I reminded him at 5:00am. The girls were so happy to get their huge balloons from Daddy. My bag of "gifts" were well received too. In fact since the balloon was attached to the gift bag they assumed the presents were from Daddy too. How does that work?!
For family fun we decided to go downtown to the winter snow festival. Being that there is finally grass, the snow festival was not so fun. In fact I do believe B stated that "This was dumb and can we go home now?" more than once. Her excitement picked up once we found the huge snow sculptures. They were rather neat and impressive.
"Where the Wild Things Are"
From Caterpillar to ButterflyAfter the sculptures we decided to make our way down Michigan Ave. and hopefully get to the American Girl Store. Yes, I think I like the store more than B. Tom did not think the girls could walk all the way. Boy was he surprised when the girls made it perfectly. Not a whine in sight! B told Daddy,"When there is shopping to do we can walk."
We even took a few minutes (and photos) at the Bean.
After each girl got one thing at the AMG store we went to eat. After dinner we figured we would walk till the whining began and then get in a cab. All of a sudden right as we were crossing the river a bunch of fire works started going off! They were right in front of us and so pretty. It was a great surprise. The girls loved it, minus the loud noise of course. It was the perfect break to the walk. In fact the girls made it all the way back to the car too. Little A was jumping and singing the entire way. She kept telling me to let go of her hand so she could run. I tried to explain that there were too many people and that it was dark so I could not let her loose. She then told me, "Not to worry for she would just zigzag through the people." Good idea, but I still didn't let go of the little hand. It was funny as A continued to sing High School Musical songs the number of people who would chime in with her. She sure is a funny little girl who loves a crowd.
B informed us that this was the best Valentine's Day ever. Guess I need to see if it has to be done again next year.
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Jealous! SOunds like you guys had a lot of fun :)
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