Happy Valentime's*** Day!!!

***Before I begin, I know I spelled Valentine's Day wrong in my title. Peanut has gone around all morning talking about handing out his valentimes today at school and I now I think that instead of the correct pronounciation. Plus....it's cute! :)

My little family lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA and it has looked like this for the last three days....

We've really enjoyed the snow; but here in the south, no one really knows how to function properly with frozen precipitation. That being said, we've been stuck at home since Tuesday. We JUST got home from dropping Peanut off at Pre-K and did a little happy dance because homeboy REALLY needed to get back into a routine!  Although, not much is going to come out of it because he's out for mid winter break all next week too. *Sigh*

I began pulling my hair trying to think of ways to keep him occupied. This activity of lining up Matchbox cars down the hallway took up 45 minutes.

I was glad Peanut was home from school for a few days because his teacher wanted him to fill out all of his valentines himself. I was proud of him for doing this but it took a LOOOOOOONG time. It was a good thing we had all week home to work on them!

One down, twenty to go!

Thankfully I had the foresight to get everything we needed for Valentine's Day on Monday when I went out for my bread, milk, and eggs that everyone apparently needs when a snow storm comes. I mean really....does everyone crave French Toast when it snows?

Besides the valentines that he filled out, I came across this cute idea for the kids in his class.

All you need is red and black craft foam sheets, lollipops, and the templates for the lips and mustaches (which I got here). It took me about an hour, over several days, to trace and cut out 24 lips and mustaches. Older kids could do this all by themselves. Peanut's cutting skills aren't quite where they need to be to tackle this project.

Peanut modeling his mustache!

We also whipped this up really quickly for his teachers. I think the soap was 2 for $5 at Publix and I printed off the label from here.

They were lucky enough to get lip lollipops too!

For Valentine's Day breakfast, I decided to make some special cinnamon rolls for my boys. I lucked up because Peanut's school didn't start until an hour later than normal, so I didn't have to get up super early to make these!

Heart Cinnamon Rolls (please say they look like hearts...)

Now, you could be Wonder Parent and make your own cinnamon rolls. I ain't got time for that. I bought a regular ole can of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls. Peanut saw the tube in the fridge on Monday and every morning casually mentioned that he would like to have them for breakfast. 

I popped the tube open this morning and quickly realized that Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls should actually be called Cinnamon Lumps. There were no actual rolls. So I cut a spiral into each and rolled them out.

They kind of look like hearts before I even shaped them.

 Then you roll each side into the middle and pinch the end to make the bottom of the heart. Cook and ice according to the directions on the package.

Peanut was super excited to see the cinnamon rolls shaped as hearts, but he didn't eat them at first. His direct quote, "But they don't look like the cinnamon rolls Mimi makes!" He didn't want to eat them because they weren't shaped into a circle like a regular cinnamon roll. He was totally ok when I made them into waffles though....  Lesson learned from this? Kids are weird.