Our Valentine's Day

Brian and I actually got to go out - just the two of us - for Valentine's Day! My mom and dad came to town to visit Elizabeth, I mean us, and they were all too happy to babysit Elizabeth. We started out early to miss the dinner crowd. We didn't really know for sure where we wanted to eat so we got our movie tickets first and then though we'd go to the Cheesecake Factory but on the way, we passed by a TGI Fridays. Okay, not the most romantic place and its someplace that we could take Elizabeth too and not worry about her being loud, but...I wanted to try out some of the food from "Ultimate Recipe Showdown" from the Foodnetwork. Mainly the Gourmet Mac & 5 Cheese. Brian thought I was a little crazy, but it was Valentine's Day so he went with no complaints. He actually LOVED a smoked salmon past dish he got. After dinner, we went to see "Taken" and that was AWESOME. I really liked it. Then we went to Dean & Deluca. I had never been there before and I don't know that we'll go again. I knew you get food and coffee there, but it was also a little bit of a very expensive grocery store. Definitely out of our price range and quite honestly, I prefer the white chocolate mocha from Borders book store than I did from Dean & Delucas. And, they closed at 8:00 - It was Saturday night for goodness sakes. So, we skedaddled (however you spell that) and went to the $2.00 theater and watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still". It wasn't bad.

Before our date began, Elizabeth and I made cupcakes. We didn't ice them until the following day and she had sooo much fun doing it. She loves using the mixer and when it came to icing the cupcakes, she loved to lick her fingers. We had fun doing it and can you believe I didn't get any pictures of it. or of Brian and me for our date! Gees, what was I thinking??

However, I do have some pictures of some of our bath time and bed time rituals. Pretty much, after bath, we get the pleasure of chasing her around the house in order to put lotion and pajamas on her (and sometimes her diaper). Something about a bath/shower just fills her with energy. I don't know where she gets it from. She just wares me out! Our new bed time ritual is to read a couple of books before going to bed. I realize its something most parents do with their kids but we had always just put her to bed. We read the same couple of books over and over again, we really have to try and throw in something new every now and then. She loves Dora the Explorer (and she got a bunch for Christmas so we now have a variety to read), she likes a book called Snowy Days and Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop. There's also has a Winnie the Pooh search and find that she loves to go through - I think she has all that memorized now.

We went sledding behind our house at the school yard. Elizabeth had a great time being pulled around by Storm (Storm really got her exercise, after we'd slide down, she'd pull Elizabeth back up the hill). Afterwards, we came back to the house and Elizabeth and I played ring around the rosy and made snow angels. We had lots of fun playing in the snow!This pretty much recaps our January and February so far. Wow, I posted a blog only about a month apart! Maybe next time I'll add some of my new scrapbook pages!