Weekends with this much chill and snow have us wishing we could stay home and snuggle. We did have to do a couple errands though. Saturday we ran out to H&W to get fruit and veg. Lots of more exotic and out of season choices so I am sure we spent more than we should have. I know we spent more than we went in thinking we would. Strawberries, nectarines, apples, pears, kiwi…. blood oranges! Now those REALLY interest the boys. The centre is so bright red and the taste much more sour (at least this batch) than a regular orange but an instant hit!

Blood Oranges!

The twins had Sunday School this morning and brought home lovely Valentine themed cards… and tales of yummy heart shaped cookies! We are not sure if there is Sunday School on the 14th or not. The schedule I have says BOTH the 14th and the 21st are no class which is odd. I emailed the lady in charge with the hopes of getting some answers so we can better plan out what is turning out to be a rather busy Family Day weekend!

Sunday School Cards

I have spent the past few days crafting it up. I finished the second Haiti Relief Fund kitty – the Doctor. Again I added the grey to the white to make it pop out better against the cloth!

Haiti Relief Doctor Kitty

In preparation for our Valentines/Chinese New Year party on the 14th I got a start on the felt heart pillows for all the kids. I ended up with enough notions for 4 out of the 6. I am hoping mom will have some cute buttons that will work for the last two. I got the idea here… the UK site once again! Simplified the decorations a bit and stuffed them with scraps. I used the template off their site for the heart shape. Not perfect but I am hoping the kids like them! I also picked up my Valentine pencils for the more religious suggestion from this site. This just leaves having the boys do their Valentines up for everyone and going to the south end of the city to find our chocolate coins for the lucky money envelopes.

To cover Chinese New Year on a level that is more accessible for the boys I have 3 special episodes of Kai Lan for them to watch – the two parts of Kai Lan goes to China and the Chinese New Year celebration episode. The boys have responded wonderfully to Kai Lan. I am hoping to get them the game for the Clickstart computer that is based on the show!

The boys have been crafting it up today – courtesy once again of the UK site! We started off with the heart people… a little different from the original pattern but SUPER cute! Emanuel and Zander said theirs are DANCING and Gavin’s is… angry??

Then onto messier things… PAINTING! The second side of the paper heart pillows. Red on this side, pink on the other! As Ken puts it “stupid simple”… cut out two of the heart in brown paper, staple it together leaving an opening to stuff it with crinkled up newspaper, staple that closed and decorate!!

Oh and lets not forget the HAND painting… two colours (Valentine themed of course) and two hands = hearts. Off  the UK site OF COURSE!

Since my cousin was finally able to get her sampler from the post office (grr) I can finally post a picture. It was based on her crib set. I am so happy with how it turned out and apparently it matched what she bought so everyone is happy! Now I just need a new project to work on…

So for a day where we stayed home and I felt rather unambitious we did accomplish quite a bit. I am hoping Ken can finish up the major cleaning in the house by Wednesday. A great start to the week!