My Little Love Bug

We had a "lovely" Valentine's Day here at the Bass house on Sunday. Izzie told me that she wanted to make her daddy an extra special Valentine's Day card (not really), and I had seen a really cute idea on this blog. So a few days before V-day, we started our project. I should have known it would be difficult to do considering Izzie hates having dirty hands. But I buckled down and tried anyways.

This is about as close as she would go to touching the paint- voluntarily that is.

After much begging and prodding, I managed to get her to put her hand in. Okay, okay, I totally forced her hand in the paint, and had to uncurl her little fingers from the tight, tiny fist she was making. There was much protesting on her part. A lot of "No! No!" and head shaking, but don't worry- no crying (I'm not that mean). Once the paint was all over her hands, she wanted to keep "jazz hands" if you will. So I had to smush her fingers together as I pressed them onto the paper. Sadly, this was the best we could do!

We wanted to make it look like a more traditional card, so here is the end product.

I wrote the message, while Izzie colored the background.

Joe loved it! So special from his little girl :) But leave it to him to say that it reminded him of a scene from "Dexter". He just wouldn't be Daddy without a witty comment ;)



On Valentine's morning, we all exchanged cards and Joe and I both got Isabella bears. (She is very into bears at the moment, and I guess great minds think alike. We should have consulted each other first!) Joe got the brown one and I got the white one. She loved them both :)

The one that I got is that one from Hallmark that responds to your voice. It tells you it loves you and asks for hugs. Here is Izzie giving her bear a hug, after he asked of course :) She is totally saying "hug" and patting him on the back.

Think she loves these bears?!

Daddy made special Valentine's Day pancakes.

And I even caught my two Valentines sharing a little kiss :)

And this one is for Mimi! She bought Izzie this sweet little dress for Valentine's day, so I wanted to make sure that I got a picture of her in it. I know it's not the best picture, but I totally get an A for effort because she keep running from me. Every time she would see me with the camera, she would say, "run!" and do just that.Mommy was getting tired, so this picture will have to do!

And a view of the back.

Hope you all had a great Valentine's with your little love bugs!