Preparation for Valentine's Day starts a few weeks in advance. This is because Liam has to carefully choose decorations and then create his Valentine's!
I love Valentine's Day so much that I decided that we would be celebrating all week. On the 12th we went to the mall for Liam's first Build-A-Bear experience. I'm pretty sure there was no mistake in placing the merry-go-round (which we ride often) directly across from Build-A-Bear. Liam was pretty distracted by it and it took some convincing to get him interested in the task at hand...picking an animal. After looking at a few he spotted the winner and said "Whoa, that's a moo!!" After making "Moo" with love we, of course, went to ride the merry-go-round.
Liam always loves the merry-go-round and I love seeing him so thrilled by it.
We stopped outside to capture some pictures with Moo. Liam really enjoyed the stuffing machine, kissing the heart, and giving Moo a bath. Picking out clothes, not so much. The name was easy, he chose that right off the bat!
Chewin' the cud.
The next day was baking day! We made dark chocolate fudge brownies and red velvet cake hearts. (Liam did all of the sprinkles.)
Valentine's Day morning Liam woke up to this. Moo was watching over his Valentine from Mommy and Daddy all night.
Inside was The Lion King and a heart full of...SKITTLES!!
Liam made his Valentine deliveries to Lexy...
...and Texan.
Then he noticed something special that Daddy got for Mommy.
After breakfast it was time to go see Daddy at work! We were ready to go with his Valentine and the treats we made for Daddy and his co-workers.
He was very happy to see us. This was also our first visit since Daddy switched offices.
On our way out there was another treat for Liam, a glass elevator! There is one in our mall and we always go in ,whether we need to or not...it's just fun!
This one was extra special because he had it all to himself...with Daddy in it!
After we said goodbye to Daddy at work, we were off to the next exciting thing.... picking up Liam's one dozen heart balloons! We got them last year and there was no way that it wasn't going to become a tradition. (not sure who was more excited!) This year Liam walked out with them himself.
Once we were home it was time to party with the balloons!
Liam gave Tex & Lex the other treats he got them a couple weeks before.
They were quite pleased.
We partied our pants off!
Did I mention that we were celebrating all week? Daddy came home from work the next evening and Liam came running in to give me this yummy box of chocolates! Since then he has requested Daddy to get the box down for him so that he can bring it to me. Needless to say, I've been eating a lot of chocolate!
I'm one lucky Momma!
This was one of Daddy's Valentine's Day surprises... a Liam Valentine Tree!
