Valentine's Day

We had our usual evening activities this week...swim team on Monday and Wednesday, as well as basketball practice on Tuesday.  It was the Champ's last basketball practice.   Princess enjoyed playing with the sisters of teammates during the practice.  We were glad to have people there to wear her out.

Princess had her Valentine's Day party at school on Thursday.  I had made both kids sit down over the weekend to fill out their Valentine's Day cards.  Needless to say, Princess wrote scribbles all over hers.  Champ helped by putting her name and her classmate's name on each card.  She loved bringing home more Valentine's Day cards.  She calls them her flashcards.  I loved how I told her Friday morning who each card was from.  On Friday evening, she was telling me this is the card from so and so.  She had remembered hours later.

Our family went to our favorite local restaurant for dinner.  We ran into my mom's beautiful friend there.  Champ asked the lady if she was his 92 year-old grandma's mom.  So much for her feeling special on Valentine's Day.  Daddy was a good listener and got me an iPod for the special day.

Daddy went to Louisville on Friday to a trade show.

Champ had his Valentine's Day party at school on Friday.  Memaw helped at his party.  We are blessed that she can help at things like parties.

Friday was game night at church for elementary children.  Champ always loves going to game night.  He said he didn't have friends he knew, but he said he made new friends.  Hooray!

On Saturday, we did a few errands.  The kids had a little money to spend.  Champ bought Legos.  Princess got a new outfit for her doll (with a little direction from mom). 

Champ played in his last basketball game.  He had his season high...8 points.  The team did fabulous, but they couldn't pull out the victory.  They lost the game 30-29.  They finished the season with only 1 win. 

We took Champ to the library for the Connor Prairie visit on the Civil War.  Champ had enjoyed looking at my students' projects on the Civil War so we thought he might enjoy this.  He got a chance to stand and be a part of the Union Army.  He asked 3 great questions in front of the group.  He wanted to know things like if they fought at night and if they practiced before battle.  He learned that they didn't practice at night because they wouldn't be able to see their target.  They also said they marched, but they didn't practicing their shooting.  They had to be quiet so as to not reveal their position.

Last night we had the Worgess and Toth family over for pizza and play.  8 kids is a lot of commotion. 

This morning we were learning more about The Story, our sermon series.  I like how the entire church, Princess' class on up, is learning the same thing.  Church was followed by grocery shopping.  Boys are out now doing more errands.  After more than 30 minutes of playing in her big girl bed, I think that Princess has finally caved and fallen asleep.