Valentine's Day!

We had a super fun Valentine's party this morning with some of the moms from my playgroup. Rand has been very excited about Valentine's Day this year and has had lots of fun making Valentines for his friends as well as Valentine's cookies. We've now been friends with some of these families for over two years -- it's so fun to see our kids start to actually play with each other (on their own! without constant supervision!).

We had four three-year-olds playing ring-around-the-rosy by themselves and it was SO ADORABLE. We tried to teach "Duck Duck Goose" but somewhere along the line the phrase "goose" got translated into "everybody get up and run away as fast as you can!" so we'll work on that.

When I was tucking Rand into bed tonight, I asked him if he was excited about Valentine's Day tomorrow. He said, "Yes! And hearts will fall from the sky." I asked him if this was something he had seen on TV, and he said no, but that it would happen for real. Alas, I think he will be disappointed.

Yesterday we drove by a church and started talking about Jesus and how He lives in our hearts....it is lofty stuff trying to explain salvation and souls and whatnot to a little boy. Rand was digesting all of this information and asked, "Mom, does Jesus make the thump-thump noise in my heart?"