Our Valentine's Day

Our Valentine's Day began with the traditional shows of affection (Heaven help our poor daughter)...
...and ended with making playdough. For their Valentine's Day party, one of the girls in Clayton's class gave all the kids homemade heart shaped playdough (cute idea). Anyway, Clayton loved it and played with it a lot. Well, it had gotten left out. Clayton was crushed that his beloved heart shaped playdough was ruined so I told him that we could make more. I had never made playdough before but it was really easy, really fun, and one batch made a TON! Clayton loved helping out. It was a really good Valentine's project for us!
Clayton loved mixing all the ingredients and stirring. He usually runs the opposite way when I ask him to help me cook, so it was fun that he actually wanted to do this with me!
After we had made our playdough, Uncle Rick came over and he and Clayton played together for a while. Uncle Rick showed Clayton how to make a playdough person. Here is Clayton with his playdough person (whose name is also Clayton).
After his playdough 'Clayton' was finished Clayton decided to make a playdough 'Noah'. By this time though, Uncle Rick was done helping. Can you tell which one Clayton made by himself (I think they're both pretty cute though)? Noah liked playing with the playdough too! He initially wanted to eat it, but after one taste he was content to keep it out of his mouth (it's mostly flour and salt - yum). This picture is a little blurry, but he looks so grown up here! I can't believe that he will only be my baby for another two months!!
Finally, a shout out to Justin for the best Valentine's Day present ever (even though it was a day late). Those of you who know Justin well are thinking, 'hey, he doesn't celebrate VD, he didn't get you a gift!'. Well, no, technically the gift was non-VD related, but it was still an awesome display of how much he loves me so I'm counting it!!
We sleep with four pillows on our bed. One under each of our heads, one in-between my knees (this is only a pregnancy thing - I usually don't need one there), and one that we affectionately call, 'the Berlin Wall'. We aren't big cuddlers and we both like our seperate space when we sleep so the pillow in between us helps us to each stick to our own sides. However, the 'Wall' is technically Justin's pillow and he usually ends up sleeping on it somehow. Lately, however, I have liked having this pillow up against my back as support. It's nice to have something to balance out the belly. Justin isn't a fan of this and usually takes it back (hey, it's his pillow, right?). The other night though, he LET ME HAVE IT!!!! I lay in bed waiting for him to take it like always, but he didn't - on purpose!! Honestly, it felt so good to be able to sleep with it all night long!! The following night he decided that he wanted his 'Wall' back, but instead of just taking it, he replaced it with another pillow! So now I have my very own pillow to sleep against! We now have five pillows in our bed. It's a lot, but we need them all! Thanks Justin, that was a really nice thing for you to do and the baby and I appreciate it!!