{"id":1803,"date":"2012-02-14T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:09:34","slug":"heart-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"Heart Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robin and I made Valentines yesterday for his whole class—I cut out the paper hearts, he affixed the stickers, and I wrote LOVE FROM ROBIN on each one. For the last week at school the kids have been engaged in decorating shoeboxes as “mailboxes,” and today they’ll have a party where all the Valentines are delivered. Sadly<\/em>, Robin has a cough and a sore throat and I don’t think I can in conscience send him to school. Maybe we’ll swing by around noon to drop off his cards.<\/p>\n

It was particularly cute, because as soon as I explained the Valentine project to Robin, he said: “I want a special kitty Valentine for my friend Evie!” Evie—Genevieve—is an apple-cheeked, ringleted little girl at the school, and Robin is very much taken with her, mostly because she shares his interest in running around pretending to be a kitty-cat. It’s their special game and they play it frequently. He calls her his “sister kitty,” and she calls him her “brother kitty.”<\/p>\n

“I need to go to school and see my sister kitty Evie,” Robin told me solemnly a few weeks ago. “Evie’s my best friend.” And the sentiment does seem to be shared: Evie will run up and give Robin a hug when he comes into the school, and I’m told that she asks about her “brother kitty” when he’s not there. Anyway, so I did draw a kitty-cat on the Valentine meant for Evie, and Robin was happy with that.<\/p>\n

As for me, I got Sam an awesome pair of cufflinks, made from actual Key System<\/a> tokens from 1945. They’re really very cool. I’ll try to get him to pose in them later!<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: we did end up going to school for the last half-hour. Here’s Robin’s “mailbox”:<\/p>\n

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He really enjoyed looking at each Valentine and hearing who it was from.<\/p>\n

Also, I wanted to give a shout-out to Dave and Terry on their 36th anniversary! Happy Anniversary<\/strong>, Nonna and Pappy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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