Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!

We have had a great day...really busy from start to finish...and Grammy is almost too tired to blog! After breakfast I brought down their Valentine surprise from their mommy and daddy. They had fun with all the things in the bag. They ate treats, drew special pictures with their new "magic" paper and pens (the kind of markers that can only mark on the special paper made for them). After lunch they blew bubbles on the front porch. It was a very pretty day...but a bit breezy so not as warm as it might have been. Woody took Elijah over to his backyard and let him play for a while all by himself. Later the girls joined him and had a great time, too! This morning the girls and I made the cake for our Valentine dinner dessert. They were quite excited. They did the pouring and measuring with a bit of help from me...yes, we did make it from scratch. Then when it came time to frost it, they were outside playing so I went on and frosted it so it would be ready for our supper. Tonight when they were going to bed Joy told me that she was sad that she didn't get to watch me frost it. Oops...next time...sorry, Joy. But they were having so much fun outside that I hated to call them in. The other excitement of the day was that they received a package from Auntie Cheryl. They had LOTS of fun coloring and doing the Valentine craft she sent. The girls had their baths first tonight and hopped into bed and Woody read stories to them while I gave Elijah his bath. They were all in bed in record time tonight...they were tired after playing outside for quite a while this afternoon.

I have thought several times today about where we were two years ago today. Woody was at Vanderbilt Hospital undergoing his first IL-2 treatment...not a very pleasant Valentine's time. So glad that two years have passed and that Woody is doing as great as he is. Next week we will be getting reservations, etc. to get ready to go back to NIH the first week in March. It is really nice to have a two-month stretch between NIH visits! Woody is hoping that they will put even more time between visits when we see them next...sounds good to me!