i will mock no more

So I used to mock Valentine's Day (ahem just last year), thinking it was too forced and commercial, blah, blah, blah. I'm certainly not trying to be political here, but really, no one is putting a gun to anyone's head, forcing them to buy chocolate. And if there ever was a holiday reserved just for chocolate, this pregnant lady would be ALL OVER IT. I polished off half a pan of brownies just for the occasion.

And I am certainly not going to complain about a special delivery of ORANGE roses!!!





They match my curtains! I think I may need to plant an orange rose bush this spring, just to have orange roses at my table every day.

When the roses arrived, Finn started skipping around the house in complete excitement saying, "Daddy is being so nice to you". I think that was the best part...seeing Finn so jazzed for me.

He immediately appointed himself as cupid and began making John a lovely thank you/Valentine's Day card, on my behalf. Complete with a heart postage stamp.

This got me thinking...hm, what other taxing, mundane tasks could I pawn off on my eager unsuspecting 5 year old? I could really be onto something. If you get a card in the mail written a la crayola, don't be too surprised.

Finn then proceeded to make a bazillion other "Valentims" for me.

I actually really liked his artistic rendering of the tree, and have already enlisted his help in making a small picture to be framed for my front living room.

And little GeGe made me a Valentine too.

The black is mud, not a coffin, LOL.

This other Valentine Finn made requires a little explaining. Calvin got this booklet as a Valentine gift at Cubbies(from the kid of a dentist I presume), and so Finn and I did our first word search together the other day.

Since it was a Valentine gift(though an odd one), it may help explain Finn's next card:

He told me it was a word search, and that I had to circle the letters in the words "Davi" and "Finn". Hehe, I think he kind of missed the point of the word search--it was more of a letter search-- but I thought it was cute.

Finn also drew me this little maze.

When I complained that it was too easy, he quickly went to work on plan B.

I will keep my mouth shut next time.

And to make this Valentine's Day the best day ever, John made us all breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yah, I'm NEVER gonna complain about VDay ever again.