Holiday Backlog: Valentine’s Day (also known as “That Boy Eats His Fish” Day)

I saw these cute, little Mickey snow globes that you can put your own pictures into at the Wally World and thought to myself, “Now won’t that just be an awesome Valentine’s present for the boys?”  So I bought them, and the night before Valentine’s Day, I cut school pictures of the boys to the right size and inserted them into the globes.  

What I hadn’t taken into account was the distortion that the water in the globes would cause.  Basically, it made our children look like they had the head shape of an alien from Mars Attacks or maybe Megamind.  The effect was particularly pronounced with Thing 2’s picture, which caused Mr. Knightley to remark, “That boy eats his fish.”  You know, brain food.  Whatever, Mr. Knightley. :)

So the boys got weirdly distorted pictures of themselves in Mickey snowglobes for Valentine’s Day.  But I gave them Valentine’s cards and candy with them, so that makes it OK, right?

In slightly related news, apparently there is a movement amongst parents to take Valentine’s Day back from the children.  Mr. Knightley rides a van with several other employees to and from work everyday.  When he got home from work on Valentine’s Day, he told me that there had been an intense discussion on the way home about how Valentine’s Day has now become another occasion to buy stuff for your kids, not just for your romantic love.  Apparently several of the guys on the van want to take the holiday back, so that constitutes a movement amongst parents, right?  See, I wasn’t lying about that.

And in directly related (and delicious) news, we had heart shaped pizza for dinner (thank you, Papa Murphy’s!) and strawberry shortcake with melted chocolate on top.  I think there was probably a vegetable involved somewhere, but I can’t remember for sure.  The dessert was all Thing 2’s idea.  Good job, Thing 2!

And, finally, here is Thing 1’s Valentine box he made for school.  The 4th grade theme was the state of Utah.  So Thing 1 made the state of Utah out of ... wait for it … LEGOS!  What else would we expect from the kid who wants to be a Lego designer when he grows up? Good job, Thing 1!