Belated Valentine's Day

Since Feb 14th has become such a hallmark holiday anyway, I think it's ok that I'm sending these pictures a week late. They were actually taken ON the 14th, when my friends Julie and Anne Carson and I had an impromptu Valentine's Day gathering that morning. We had great intentions for the boys (all boys - Henry, 2 1/2, Charlie, 2, Freddy, 1, and Will, 3 months) to decorate cutout cookies and make some kind of creative cards for their dads. HA.

What they did, instead, was play with trains the entire time. We managed to slightly distract them (especially sweet tooth Charlie) with cookies that we half-decorated for them with icing...but of course, tearing the sprinkles out of their death grips was no fun, and they lost interest after about 1 1/2 cookies. That only left about 4 dozen undecorated hearts and flowers for us to eat. Oh, and the craft project? Again, HA. We had the supplies, but when we really thought through the idea of 3 toddlers with glue and paint, we wisely decided to let them continue uninterrupted with their trains. Next year, dads - sorry.