Valentine's Day

Austin’s friends’ birthday party was the weekend after his birthday.  That just worked better for us.  He had about 20 children come.  It was at Playground World.  That place is awesome for birthday parties at this year.  The kids got to play on the playgrounds and trampolines.  There was small basketball court too.  Every played for a while then we ate pizza and had cake. 

Austin wanted a Cavs themed party this year.  I decided to order this cake at Walmart.  I wanted cupcakes because it is easier for the kids.  Austin wanted a special cake with Cavs backboard on it.  I caved and let him get both.  When I picked up the cake, I didn’t really notice it. But when I got home, Austin noticed right away the cake was wrong.  He was sad. We went back to Walmart and fortunately they were able to make it right for him.  However we were there for a long time!  It turned out nicely though. 

After we had cake, the kids played until the party was over.  Everyone had such a great time.  It was nice meeting new friends too.  Austin got some cool gifts like arts and crafts that he loves, Cleveland Indians stuff, and even Pokemon.  We are learning about Pokemon now too. 

Austin’s first project in kindergarten was to make a Valentine’s box with valentines. For the valentines he had to write each kids name.  Austin is crafty and he wanted to make his own valentines. I took him to Hobby Lobby and let him pick out the supplies he wanted.  He was excited to do it.  However it was a bit painful getting him to complete them all. He lost interested in doing it after a while.  We had several weeks to do it. 

For his Valentine’s box, Austin made a basketball themed one.  He painted the shoe box orange twice.  He used a paper towel roll to make a backboard.  He clipped the backboard from his birthday cake onto it. He even made a shot clock.  Then he decided he needed his picture taken and cut it out and put himself on the backboard.  He used black tape to make lines on the box to look like basketball court.  It turned out really nice!  He was proud of it. 

He also celebrated the 100^th day of school at school before Valentine ’s Day.  He needed to bring in 100 of something.  Austin being creative decided he wanted to bring in 100 pizzas.  We used my Cricut machine and made them.  We cut out dough, cheese, and pepperoni.   Then we made them all and counted them to make sure we had 100.  Austin wanted a pizza box to bring them in.  Brian helped him make a box.  Brian and Austin found pictures online. Austin glued pictures to the box.  It turned out very cute.  We later found out that no other child brought in anything crafty.  Austin said everyone else’s was the teacher’s suggestions.  Austin came up with this on his own.  We all had fun with these projects. 

Sydney wrote out her Valentine’s for her friends too.  She got Frozen Valentine’s and wrote each child’s name and her own name.  She loved doing it.