Valentine's Day

Valentine's day was absolutely wonderful. Finding out the gender of this new baby was the best present!  We went as a family and Charlie loved the ultrasound.  A dark room, large computer,  technician pushing lots of buttons, tv screen...what's not to love?  He was a perfect little angel on Tony's lap, taking everything in.

It was a busy day and even though Tony and I celebrated Valentine's day on Friday, we were going to celebrate it as a family on the real day!  Carry on a family tradition!  Charlie and I made cards for Tony that afternoon and started to get things ready.

I made a dinner special for Charlie and a dessert special for Tony.

Chicken parmesan

Brocolli 

rolls

strawberry cheesecake salad, recipe here

My two Valentine's

We stripped Charlie down and let him go to town!

From the picture above, I think dinner was a success!

 

After dinner was a much needed bath for Charlie.  We had a short little family night in Charlie's room and showed him his Valentine's day presents from grandparents (he had found them a few days earlier and unwrapped them...) We sang a primary song, had a prayer and read his new books together.

For our family night, Tony and I, we played the newlywed game and had a great time laughing at how off some of our answers were.  I learned that Tony's favorite book is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and his favorite song is by Michael Buble.  I had no idea!  Tony guessed that my biggest pet peeve was having to use toothpaste & shampoo until the container was empty (I'm bad. I usually switch to the new bottle once there's a quarter left and Tony's left with the old kind). A light bulb turned on and I learned his biggest pet peeve.

It was fun learning new things about each other.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!