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Long Weekend

Feb 18th, 2009 by Kate

We enjoyed a long weekend celebrating Valentine’s Day and President’s Day. Sydney has finally recovered from her double ear infections, although it was a long week last week with Jim out of town. Luckily we had some down time over the weekend to relax a bit. We did some celebrating of Valentine’s day, first at a daycare party and then we hosted a little party for some friends from my Mom’s group. We also got in a ride on the merry-go-round which Sydney loved!

Since watermelon is Sydney’s favorite food, I made heart-shaped watermelon “pops” for the V-day party at daycare. The kids really enjoyed them - even Lauren ate TWO and she doesn’t usually like watermelon!

Watermelon Pops for daycare party

We had plans to head downtown to visit the aquarium on Saturday, but by the time Sydney got up from her morning nap, it was a bit late. So we headed to the mall where they have a merry-go-round and took Sydney for a ride. (Well, Daddy did. I took the pictures.) She was unsure of it at first, but quickly warmed up and spent the ride smiling ear to ear!

On the Merry-go-Round with Daddy

For a special activity Saturday afternoon, I made a small pan of Jello for Sydney to play with. She got right into it, picking it up, playing around with the spoon and cookie cutters and of course eating a lot of it!

Can you believe I get to play with this whole pan?!

Sunday morning, Daddy made these pancakes for Sydney. The plan was to make pigs, but we think they look more like foxes or dogs! She didn’t seem to mind though.