I was so excited for Mother’s Day this year. All the boys were making things in their various preschool classes. Not that it’s about the gifts at all, but they were all SO excited about their projects…Logan especially. He even teamed up with some neighborhood girls and did a project at home on his own. He drew with them for a couple hours one day in our dining room, then he drew and drew some more for days after (and asked me to call the girls on the phone so they could talk about their projects). He made me look away to staple the papers together. He hid them under his bed for safe keeping and even said that he hoped Mother’s Day would be sunny just for me. How stinkin cute is that?!

Brian made me a special breakfast, my favorite dinner and just generally tried his best to spoil me. They all took me to Target (on Saturday afternoon) to “buy mommy’s present”. I was led randomly through the store until we arrived in the toy section. Say What? Brian walked us to the wall of bikes, pointed at them and said, “pick one”. Super cool! I’ve wanted a bike for so long to ride with the boys! I got a cute purple one…which I tested by riding a short distance down the aisle at Target. Logan and I rode our bikes at least 4 times back and forth to the garden plot on Sunday. He’s fast!! Today (Tuesday), he was the leader at school. The teacher has them dictate a sentence about what they like and then picks a letter that they have to circle throughout the sentence. The sentence is written on a long banner thing that they bring home. Upon inspection of his backpack, I discovered that Logan’s sentence today was: “Logan is the Leader Today. I like going on a bike ride with my mom”

Here is the craft Aiden (or, rather, Aiben according to the card) brought home. It totally made me cry! I’m such a sap, but seriously!

It’s for recipe cards.

Here is Logan’s school project. I was super impressed by his paint job. He was SO excited about the necklace. I opened the gift in the lobby of the school because he couldn’t wait to show me. Both Aiden and Logan would question me whenever I took it off all weekend. Luckily, it goes with lots of outfits! The string is stretchy and, according to Logan, can “go over your head even if you have poofy hair”

Here is the card Logan did in class

My favorite part: the scraggly “I Love You”

I even got a card from Brady (handprints are big for mother’s day!)

Here are a few shots of the 18-plus-page book Logan made for me…

These are tulips I believe

These are weeds which he said were picked and put together so they wouldn’t hurt the flowers.

This is “a twirly whirly sunflower” – My favorite!!

I think Ella and Mackenzie taught him how to draw hearts…and a blue butterfly up the corner.