Happy Heart Day

Happy Valentine's Day.

I know a lot of people boycott Valentine's Day because it's a "Hallmark" holiday, but if it's an excuse to dedicate a whole day to saying "I love you" to those people in my life that just don't hear it from me enough and to teach Laney about the importance of love, I'll take it. Little kid Valentine's days are the absolute sweetest thing ever. It's breathtaking to experience the innocent and honest love that only a child can portray. I look forward to the next ten to twelve years full of precious, child-like V-days! (Then we'll arm and prepare ourselves for the junior high / high school V-days that may carry a few more tears with them. Ha.)

We started off the day getting Miss Bug ready for her party at school. I got a little carried away with the planning and outfit picking. Honestly, I kind of went into guilty mom mode because I don't even remember if Laney had a Christmas party at school, which means I definitely didn't make anything to take to it or dress her up cute for it. At that time, I was doing good to scrape my morning-sick bottom off the bathroom floor and make it to work on time. So, I guess I tried to make Valentine's day extra special to make up for my lack-luster holiday season. Here was the first outfit we put on this morning:

....but it ended up being too big, so we changed into this:

I had made some Valentine bags this past weekend for Laney to give her friends as school. It was my first project using my new Silhouette cutting machine! I cut all the paper using the machine, then I glued all the pieces on the fronts of the bags. I ended up filling the bags with random stuff like heart-shaped bubbles and stickers since there's not much candy this crowd of one-year-olds is allowed to have. I also made all the girls in the class little flower ribbon clips for spring using some of the massive amounts of felt I have left over from making the felt playhouse and clipped them onto their gift bags:

And lastly I'll leave you with some random pictures of Laney. I feel like I haven't done a great job of taking pictures of her lately with everything going on (again with the bad mom guilt!). I assure you, though, that she is quite the center of our world just as she has always been. I just can't believe she's getting so old already. She's just growing up. It's really happening. She looks like a little girl in these pictures!

Playing with neighbor, Noah:

"Helping" unload groceries:

We're also so excited because our big appointment with the maternal medicine specialist is TOMORROW!! I'll be posting tomorrow to let you all know for sure if Laney is expecting little sisters or brothers. :)