Valentine's V Day

Since last Thursday was Valentine's Day, it was obvious what letter we chose for that day - V Day!

V as in Vet

Our morning started off in a very non-Valentine way. I had to take our cat, Oscar, to the vet. My mom came over to hang out with D while I was gone and she had an amazing idea. She brought over her stethoscope and she and Dylan played Dylan the Vet with his animals. I didn't even think about V as in Vet! Way to go, Grandma! And all of Dylan's animals got a much needed check-up!

He got so into it that as soon as we got home, he ran over to Oscar's crate (before I could even open it), welcomed him home, and told him he missed him. My little guy is so sweet.

Our first Valentine's Day craft involved painting, which always makes D happy. I saw a different idea on Pinterest that inspired this. I had a square canvas, used scotch tape for the letters L-O-V-E and let him go to town with red and pink paints.

He started to get really into it and decided that one hand just wasn't enough.

The finished product ended up being so cute! 

Dylan was really excited about coloring his V is for Veggies coloring sheet. Please not that I only have 4 markers and I know blue cucumbers aren't very realistic. We took creative liberties.

[Did you notice his Valentine's Day shirt? It is very  appropriate. he is quite the flirt!]


We also did a Confessions worksheet. This is the one she uses with magnets on the website, but Dylan likes using the little dollar bin craft balls.

Confessions activity

Dylan got a special Valentine's Day snack that afternoon. I put animal crackers, strawberry frosted mini wheats, Quaker Oats Whole Hearts (just like Cheerios but heart shaped), and a handful of Valentine colored M&Ms.

We did one last Valentine craft before getting ready for bedtime. I saw this one on Pinterest, too. We used different colors of paint and Dylan finger-painted dots. After it dried, I cut it into a heart shape and painted a tree trunk. We made a heart tree!

Happy Valentines Day!

Big Q, little q, what begins with Q?

Today was Q day!

Confessions activity

We did his Do-A-Dot upper/lower case practice sheet to start our day. That was followed by his upper/lower sorting game from Confessions. It was a Q is for Quilt activity. As usual, he breezed through it and didn't miss one!

I saw a couple Q game suggestions in various places online. I decided we would give the Quarter Toss a try. I cut out an uppercase Q, put it on the floor, and then gave him 6 quarters to throw into the Q (And yes, I did pull the paranoid mom thing and wash all the quarters first). Making it in the Q was kind of hard - quarters bounce! It was pretty fun.

Next, we tried to do quarter rubbing with his crayons. It didn't go very well and neither one of us really enjoyed it.  He didn't completely grasp the whole thing and didn't think the finished product was that cool. But we tried.

After we were done with our two quarter games I brought his piggy bank out and had him put his $1.50 inside. He loves his piggy bank and wanted to carry it back into his room and put it on his dresser "all mysewf" (translation: all by myself).

By the way, that piggy bank was from Drew & Holly. It was part of the basket they sent to the hospital when Dylan was born. It's really cute!

Every letter day we do, we stick the matching flash cards on his bedroom door. After we stuck the Qs on, I thought it was time to take a picture.

Tonight for dinner, we stopped at Qdoba to get quesadillas & queso and brought them home to have a picnic on our big tropical quilt. Wow, that's a lot of Qs.

I saw an idea online and changed it around a bit for Dylan. I cut out 4 pieces of construction paper and drew shapes on them. Then I had him use Q-tips to match the shapes.

Our final Q project of the day was making a lowercase q look like a quilt.

I simply cut out little squares from construction paper, covered the q in Elmer's glue, and let him fill up the q with quilt squares. 

I love this picture of him working on his q quilt because his face looks so funny! I think he must have gotten his finger in the glue.

Our Q book for the day was one I found suggested in a couple Mommy blogs. We got The Name Quilt by Phyllis Root from the library.

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Some lucky girl that lives in this house got Valentine flowers and chocolate covered strawberries delivered today! Dylan was so excited to try the strawberries. They were a huge hit! We love you, Babe! Thanks for the beautiful flowers and the tasty treats.

Loving the Valentine chocolate covered strawberries!

Hearts on H Day

Once again, I know we are going completely out of order but Friday was H day! I chose H that day because I knew we had to get to work on Valentines (with "H"earts) if he was going to make them and send them to all his grandparents in time for Valentine's Day. [Spoiler alert: If you are  one of Dylan's Grandparents and want to be completely surprised with your Valentine, you probably shouldn't read on until after your Valentine comes in the mail.]

We started off our morning with more Do-A-Dot stuff from Confessions. His Grandma Connie is still here visiting so he got to show off his skills for her. She was very proud, of course!

We had three H books to read before naptime. My Uncle John had given him Hippos Go Berserk (which he already loves) and I picked up two more from the library. One was just okay, the other was a huge hit. He really liked Hidden Hippo by Joan Gannij. 

The afternoon was filled with "H"earts! We made Valentine cards for all of his Grandparents. 

I had bought blank cards and he put conversation heart stickers on the fronts. He may have gotten more stuck on his fingers than on the cards. But at least he was having fun!

He then painted pictures inside each one. He even told me what each picture was. There were animals, birds, a rainbow, and even a pumpkin. He thinks he is quite the artist.

Dylan's masterpieces

We continued our Heart stuff with another craft. He glued all sizes of construction paper hearts on an upper and a lower case H. 

I love this picture of him concentrating SO hard! It always helps when you stick out your tongue! He's getting pretty good at using the glue stick. He doesn't get quite enough glue on each heart, but he gets the concept. I kept adding glue when he wasn't looking.

I was so surprised at how much I loved how this turned out. It was such a simple idea, and it turned out so cute! 

Nonny Connie had brought a gift for Dylan. It is one of those water color books. After his bath, he got to do a couple sheets. I picked the ones with H stuff to keep with our theme of the day. 

We've hardly had time for Letter Day stuff because he has been having so much fun playing with Nonny Connie. As a matter of fact, I am sitting here typing and I can hear him giggling with delight in his room. He is having way too much fun. I guess that's what grandmas are for!