Valentine's Day

With each coming holiday, I have tried to go to the library to get a couple of books about the special day to teach the girls about it. For Valentine's Day, we read Fancy Nancy!

Rachel had a Valentine's party at school last week. We worked through the week to practice writing her name on each of her valentines for her friends at school. She didn't quite understand the concept since she had never exchanged valentines before. Each one she signed her name to, she was certain was for herself. When I picked her up from school, she was so excited to show me all of her valentines that she couldn't even wait the 5 minutes drive home! She tore her bag in the car trying to get it open! When the day of actually came, I had several things planned for the girls. Scott took them to the store because they wanted to give me roses for Valentine's Day!  As for them, they love to do little projects. 

They absolutely loved it! I had wrapped it all together in one gift bag and I was a little concerned they would both want to open it by themselves. Rachel was such a great big sister and let Alexa open it by herself. They were so thrilled with the beads and getting to make their own necklaces!

I gave them each a small cookie sheet to put their beads on. Alexa loved putting her hands in the bucket of beads of feeling them on her hands...total sensory experience! Once I showed her to put them on her pan, she started to pile them on until it was almost full! She did such a great job stringing them on her ribbon. 

Rachel, again, was a good big sister and patiently waited her turn while Alexa was playing in the beads. When she got the bucket of beads, she sat and carefully picked a wide selection of purple beads. She would occasionally put some back and pick new ones. She had a necklace with many purple beads and then decided to start over! I think she ended up with only 5 beads in the end. She loves it though! Alexa just enjoyed stringing and unstringing her beads. After necklace making, Scott and I took them for a surprise treat...to pick out a treat at Mrs. Cavanaugh's chocolate store! They had a great Valentine's Day!