Valentine's Day + the week

PHEW! Get ready for lots and lots of photos, because I have lots to share! This year, Killian has really gotten into holidays, so naturally, we had to celebrate valentine's day. We started by making a mailbox. I got this cute mailbox kit from target:

 Killian enjoyed helping glue the decorations on. I got a great action shot here:

 I put a little valentine's card in his mailbox. He was so thrilled to open it up :)

 Then, he had to put the valentine back into his mailbox, so he had mail :)

 We made the mailbox about 2 weeks ago, and every once and a while, I put little notes or candy in it, and put up the flag. Then Killian would notice his flag was up, and he's say: "I got mail!!" He had alot of fun with it :) We also made valentines for all his friends at daycare, and family members. He helped pick out different toy story ones, and put stickers and candy on them:

 He picked out exactly which ones went to each person. I asked who he loved, and he told me and picked a valentines for that person. When we were down to two valentines, he was having a hard time trying to decide who should get them. Then he realized he loved me, and the dogs. Sigh, I was 2nd to last on the long list of the people he loves.

We celebrated valentine's day on Saturday, because he went to his dad's saturday night-tuesday. So he woke up to this at his table place:

 He was so excited for his candy, books, puzzle and train whistle. And he loved his card from me, because it had a rocketship on it:

So we had a fun valentine's day :)


Now for an update on what we've been up to! Last weekend, we headed up to our cabin where my dad, sister and extended family was. Killian loved playing with my younger cousins, and we went snowmobiling, sledding, and walking around the frozen lake. He got upset a few times, because there was about 15 people there, and the noise and busyness was a little much (we're used to quiet at our house).

 He loved playing hide-and-seek with my cousins. Here's a hiding place that I found him in.

 Closing his eyes to count :)

 Walking on the frozen lake

Ready to snowmobile... he went for an hour!!!

It was another week of school, but Monday morning we went to tumbling class, where Killian learned to walk the balance beam all by himself. :) I was a proud mama :) Tuesday I had school all day :( but I had 2 hours off in between classes, so I got to go to his daycare and play, eat lunch, and snuggle with him for a half hour before he fell asleep. It was really nice :) When I picked him up, he was painting:

He didn't want to stop to come home :)
Wednesday he went to his dad's, and Thursday he didn't want to leave my house to do anything. And then when he woke up from nap, he had a fever and couldn't get off the bed. He ended up falling asleep at 530, and throwing up around 6. Then he slept until 730 on Friday! He still had a fever Friday and was very crabby, so we stayed home. After a 4 hour nap, he was back to his usual self.

Saturday morning, we went to the Building For Kids, where there was a snake exhibit. MMM... not my favorite. There was about 70-100 snakes there, some of them VERY large. Of course Killian fell in LOVE with them. Here are some pictures of him loving a 70 lb python (I was having a panic attack inside, just so you know)

And I do have a few randoms from this week. Killian's wanted a dollhouse for about 3 months now, and the deal was that when he was fully potty trained, he could get one. Well, he's fully potty trained, so.... he got one. It took me a few days to put it together, but he played with the furniture and the dolls while he waited patiently. In this set, there is an umbrella meant to be a patio umbrella. WELL, Killian thinks it's an umbrella for him... so he walked around the house holding it over his head :)

 He cracks me up sometimes :) Here's the complete doll house. He's so funny when he plays with it. He acts out everything that happens at home. I really need to get him a dog for it though, he needs something to punish :)