Prepping for Valentine's Day

I'm making the same Valentine's Day cards for the kids that we've made every year for the past few years.  It's basically a photo of each kid holding out their arm, and after I print the photo I cut two little slits around their hand and put a tootsie roll pop through the photo. 

Anyway, I asked Josh to come out and help me keep them all corralled, and for whatever reason, he decided this would be the perfect time to get Hoss out of the kennel and work with him...  "/  Ugh!  It took me forever to get a photo of Wallace actually looking at the camera.  I think what Josh really wanted was a cute photo of the kids with Hoss since they were all kind of coordinating in their outfits.  So we gave it a try...

Not sure what Meredith was doing here...

Not sure what Meredith was doing here...

Oh my gosh Meredith!  Will this girl ever be normal?  Haha!

Oh my gosh Meredith!  Will this girl ever be normal?  Haha!

Anna did pretty good on her own.  :)

Anna did pretty good on her own.  :)

Meredith tried to butt in on Wallace's photo time. 

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He didn't take it too well.

Haha!  Look at her refusing to get out of the frame.  And Wallace was maintaining his tootsie roll pop hand the whole time!  :)

Haha!  Look at her refusing to get out of the frame.  And Wallace was maintaining his tootsie roll pop hand the whole time!  :)

This weekend I also took Meredith to her first birthday party that a friend from school was having.  It was a princess dress-up party...  Meredith probably would have preferred to go as Spidey.  We compromised with Supergirl.

I wish I could say she was on her best behavior...but about 30 minutes into the party Princess Elena came over, and it was kind of downhill for Meredith after that point.  She doesn't really take social cues from me or listen to me in general..…

I wish I could say she was on her best behavior...but about 30 minutes into the party Princess Elena came over, and it was kind of downhill for Meredith after that point.  She doesn't really take social cues from me or listen to me in general...so she was constantly all up in Elena's grill and wouldn't really let the birthday girl take center stage.  "/  So we left a little early.  Oh well.  She had fun and took a 3-hour nap when we got home!