Valentine's Day Weekend 2020

We had the best Valentine's Day Weekend at the Storm household this year. 

This sweet little babe celebrated his second Valentine's Day by making us a butterfly card with his footprints. He was sick going into the holiday but mad a quick recovery and rebound by the weekend.

I love this Little Guy Big Heart shirt - it is hard to find Valentine's clothes for boys! Roman used to have it when he was a kiddo (maybe as a 4 year old?) and I happened to find a baby version at a thrift store. :)

I captured some photos of my 3 little loves in the morning.

And then we headed off to daycare and school.

Because it was a special day, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts before school. No better way to start the day!

Roman had a very big day because he celebrated both his 100th day of school + had a Valentine's Party on this Friday. Here he is sporting his 100 day crown + Valentine's shirt + a very sticky ring pop. 

Here is his sweet Valentine's bag from school - full of cards and treats! 

We had a special family supper of pasta, everyone had a fun Dollar Store Valentine's Balloon tied to their chair. 

We had a fun dessert and exchanged little gifts.

I just love this card that Roman made for his sister; he had sort of a scavenger hunt for Lucy to find her gift.

On Saturday the big kids went to their usual art class at UW-EC. On this day they weaved rainbows and made paper heart cutouts.

Leo wanted to have a seat on that fun bench too!

On Saturday night Dan and I dropped off the big kids at AKF for a Parent's Night Out. Yay!

We kicked off our Valentine's date at the Lazy Monk Brewery. 

We enjoyed some beer and looked at maps of Germany on the walls. We had a great time mapping out our upcoming plans to visit Munich, southern Germany, and Austria later this summer.

We had the most handsome little third wheel crash our date night!

After our brews we walked across the street to eat at Stella's a cajun restaurant. The lighting was dim but the food was amazing, check out these shrimp and scallops. Yum!

We had the best time! :)

Before I close this post, I had to include this hilarious little nugget courtesy of Roman. We went to church on Valentine's weekend, the children were supposed to learn about words of love and respect during their Sunday School lesson. I asked Romy to tell me about his class, he shared his homework and proudly showed me how he had scribbled mustaches all over everyone's faces. Hahaha!

Early February Activities

Here is a recap of the early February 2020 happenings at the Storm household. 

Lucy's dance class was busily preparing for their spring recital. Lucy's outfits arrived at the studio and she loved her jazz costume so much! 

One of Roman's activities this winter was wrestling. This was such a good sport for him! He burned tons of energy on the wrestling mats on Monday nights. Yay!

His favorite warm up was the bear crawl. :)

Leo grew like a champ this February and was eating more and more table food from his little high chair.

He loves paging through books; here is Leo reading with a George Costanza pose. Haha!

We love this sweet little boy so very much!

In early February, Leo was not yet walking but he was able to pull himself up and cruise all over. He could also stand independently for short period of time! This is our big guy waiting in the church lobby for his big sibs to finish up their Sunday School lessons. 

Lucy brought home a Chinese New Year project from school! Here she is wishing me a Happy Year of the Rat. 

Speaking of Lucy, she received a children's cookbook for Christmas and has been making all kinds of things in the kitchen. One of her new favorites is hummus. Yum!

Baby Leo loves sporting his Uno shirt! Perfect thing for my boy who is Uno years old.

The big kids worked to put together Valentine's for all of their classmates at Roosevelt. They opted to give out little squishy toys instead of candy this year.

Of course we always have time to make silly faces.

My boys love going to the YMCA Sports Center for family night! Leo especially loves to zip through the tunnel.

Sometime Roman will give Leo a ride in the car but our little guy has a hard time staying seated ... 

We are working so hard at standing nice and tall.

Finally we paid a visit to Roman's favorite restaurant in Eau Claire in February, the Classic Garage. He just loves eating there and checking out the old cars. 

They switch out the cars pretty regularly so it is always a treat to visit. 

Grandpa Glen & Grandma Sharon Visit

I had a quick work trip to Crandon in January so Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Glen came to help hold down the fort. Our big kids love grandparent visits! They get spoiled rotten with things like warm cookies after school! 

 

Grandpa and Grammy took Leo to run errands while the other kids were at school. Our babe is quite the wiggle worm these days! Grandma assured me that Leo was buckled into the cart but still managed to do a 180 in the seat. Hahaha!

It is so nice to have a Dad who is an electrician!! :) He has done many house projects for us over the years. On this day Dad put an outlet in our living room floor. This was a much needed change in a room that has pretty poor lighting.

On this day Grandpa Glen has a little apprentice at his side.

Doing electrical work is exhausting so the boys needed a nap afterwards! ;)

Big thanks to Grammy for walking the kiddos to their bus stop in the mornings. 

One of the highlights of the week was a trip to Menomonie to have breakfast with Uncle Glen on Friday morning. Mom, Dad, and I met up with Glen for a pretty amazing truck stop breakfast and lots of coffee. A little bit of breakfast pie may or may not have been consumed as well. So good to catch up with Uncle, glad that we are living just down the road these days. 

You can tell that Mom and Glen are siblings, right?! What a fun morning. 

MLK Weekend

We had some bad weather and January snowstorm going into MLK weekend but everything died down by Saturday afternoon and we were able to head over to Roseville for our planned visit with the Cihacek family.

We packed a car picnic and drove to MN. 

We spent the afternoon at the pool at the Shoreview Community Center. Look at how beautiful this facility is! The kids were so excited! The pool even had a big waterslide where you could choose the music that you wanted to play while you zipped down. It was such a fun place and we can't wait to go back. 

Other than that, we read books.

Roman is such a goofball.

We had ice cream together.

And the kiddos enjoyed a movie night.

The little boys talked to the dogs and hung on the gate.

 

Look at how big they are getting and how much more hair Neal has compared to Leo!

We painted and crafted in our jammies.

And went back to Wisconsin with full hearts.