Heart Day
I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day! Robin was thrilled with all his mail. I explained to him that they were “Valentines” and they were from people who wanted to tell him they loved him, but Robin spotted the salient feature pretty quickly. “Hearts!” he said, holding up his cards. “Look Mommy, hearts!” So I told him that, yeah, it was “heart day,” and he seemed to find that so very thrilling that I’m wondering if we shouldn’t do square day and triangle day and so forth. At one point in the afternoon he came to me demanding “more hearts,” so I cut him out a big red construction-paper heart, and he carried that around for hours. Adorably, when Sam came home the first thing Robin did was run up and hand him the big red heart.
Unfortunately, on Valentine’s Day we also got colonized with another round of germs. So far I’m just feeling mildly stuffy, but Robin’s got a worsening cough, and today I don’t think he feels well at all. “Hurts, Mommy,” he croaked this morning, pointing at his throat. I gave him some children’s Tylenol, and I”ll see if I can get him to drink some hot tea with me. Hopefully he’ll bounce back quickly.
