This was a typical busy week with work, school, practice, church meetings and activities with a few extras thrown in. Wednesday was Jason's birthday, so we got together on Wednesday evening to celebrate him. In addition to all the regular jazz, with Valentine's Day right around the corner, we had lots of work to do on that front.
Carrigan had to complete "appreciation cards" for everyone in her class in addition to her regular Valentines. She worked on those in the early part of the week, writing a note to each person with what she appreciated about them. In the meantime, Elsie worked hard on her valentines, writing her name twelve times all on her own. Once, they both finished, they worked together to complete Carrigan's regular valentines. They created an assembly line, where C.C. did all the writing of the names, and Elsie attached the erasers.
Once all the cards were done, only one other thing was left to do, Carrigan also had to create a box for her valentines. I thought maybe we could cut a hole in a shoebox and maybe add some stickers. She had different plans. She had a vision of a dog with a mouth that moved up and down to insert the valentines. She needed some help to wrap the individual components in craft paper and to execute the moveable mouth, so we worked together to bring her vision to life. She is pretty happy with it and has plans to keep it until Elsie is in 4th grade and needs to build her own Valentine's Day box.
Not to be outdone by my crafty girls, I did some needle felting this week at my youth activity. Mostly I spent the time trying to help the girls with their projects, but I did bust out a quick little chick since Easter will be here before we know it.
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