Happy Valentines Day

today we spent the day making the house look extra special for daddy when he comes home as a special valentine's day surprise because rob loves nothing better than a neat and tidy home. it was difficult getting mimi to stop playing her games, watching her shows to help me tidy up, but in the end she pulled through and cleaned up her whole play room on her own.

she even had time afterwards to spin herself silly in the living room. print out a maze from the Charlie and Lola website (she prints it herself, runs to the office to retrieve it, and gets to work. very amusing to watch how easily she does it all. she is truly a child of this computer age.)

and she spent a very concentrated amount of time copying the words from a song they learned in preschool. the letters were written in lower case and she became very fixated with learning to form the lowercase letters. she can write all the uppercase letters, but had not done much w/lowercase. she was so involved, i couldnt even get her to break long enough to eat anything.

we also baked a cake and mimi decorated the cake herself. i wrote the words in the icing with a toothpick and she used the icing to trace over the words, but the rest of the design is all hers.