This year for Valentine's Day, I bought all the boys in our family new pillows.
Super exciting, right?
It might sound lame, but everyone needs a good pillow, and Connor and Lex were so excited about theirs that they went and laid in their beds in the middle of the day to test them out.
Don't worry. I also bought them real Valentines. Connor got a new card game, Sorry Revenge. It's basically Sorry and Blackjack combined, and it's easy to learn and play. You are basically adding and subtracting the whole time, so I think it's a great math lesson in disguise. Lex got a new version of another card game, Spiderman Uno. Connor loves Uno, and I thought maybe Lex would be more interested in playing with us if he had his very own Uno deck, especially one with Spiderman on the cards. It hasn't worked yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he will start playing card games with us soon.
For our special outing, I took the boys to COSI to see the new Mindbender Mansion and Amazing Mazes exhibits. The boys love mazes, and they were happy to complete almost all the mazes there. Some were walled mazes that you walked through, others were carpet mazes that you traced with your feet. One was a web maze with ropes that you tied yourself to and climbed through like a spider web. That one was hard. The Mindbender Mansion was full of puzzles that you had to solve to get clues that you used to unlock the vault in each room to get a password. Once you had all the passwords from the different rooms, you entered them into a computer to gain admission to the Wall of Fame. It took us all morning, but we finally solved it all. Some of the puzzles were tricky, even for me. Connor thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit, and I can see us doing it again before it leaves COSI.
For dinner we had something of a surf and turf feast at home. We made boiled lobster, scallops in garlic butter, oysters au gratin and steak with a mushroom marsala sauce. There was red wine to pair with the steak, and white wine to go along with the seafood. I also made some salami and cheese sandwiches for the boys in case they wouldn't eat anything else. They ended up eating the sandwiches and some bake-at-home Valentine's sugar cookies that had hearts and Mickey Mouse ears on them.
Post Edit: Kevin reminded me of something else that happened on Valentine's Day, and I cannot imagine how I had already forgotten! When we pulled the live lobster out of the fridge, Kevin asked if either of the boys wanted to see it or be the one to drop it into the pot. Lex started sobbing and saying that he didn't want us to cook the lobster, because he wanted it to stay alive. He didn't necessarily want to keep it as a pet, he just didn't want it to die. It was heartbreaking. Then Connor started informing him that all the other meats that he eats come from dead animals, too...and I know that he was just trying to be helpful, but as you can imagine, it really wasn't. It took us about 10 minutes to calm Lex down and get him to allow us to cook our lobster. I never saw it coming.
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