Mother's Day

I just have to take this time, on Mother's Day, to say how much I love my sweet kids and how special they made Mother's Day for me.

It started on Thursday with Mother's Tea at Arya's preschool. She had been so excited about me coming and hearing the song that she had been learning. They had such a nice event planned for us. When we arrived, we went into the art room, which had tables set with tissue paper flowers as centerpieces, place cards for each child and their mom, along with brownies (that the kids had made) and pink lemonade.

Mrs. Foley called each child up, one by one, and read what they had said about why they love their mommy. Arya said, "I love my mommy because...she plays with me. She takes me to the frog pond. She made me a Pablo cake." It was so sweet. :)

Next the class sang a song for us. Here is a video of the song:



Since I didn't get the very beginning and since it is a little hard to hear, here are the words:

Mommy, Mommy, let me say,
I love you in every way.
I love you for all you do.
I love you for being you.
Mommy, Mommy, let me say,
Have a happy Mother's Day!

(The other night she sang the song for Grandma Carol and Grandma Ruthie too, and just changed the words to "Grandma, Grandma, let me say...")

Anyway, since Thursday, Arya has been so excited for the real Mother's Day to come. She made me a beautiful card with flowers, butterflies, and kitties. She also picked me lots of flowers from the yard. She made a special craft that she saw on a Caillou cartoon. She cut flower shapes out of different colored papers and put pipe cleaners through the centers to make stems. She made a vase full of them and put them on the table for me at lunch time. So sweet!! She even made me a surprise sand castle in her sandbox, which she said was especially for Mother's Day. Wow, I felt loved by my sweet little girl!! :) And I'm sure that Alex loves me too, he just hasn't learned how to do crafts yet to show me. :)