Valentine's Day

Yesterday we missed the Dehombre family. For the last two years, we had made and decorated valentine's cakes with Sofia and Able and had such a fun time. This year I decided to go simple and I bought cookies and decorations and let the kids decorate and munch to their hearts content.

In the morning we went to Dekalb Farmer's Market and had a blast doing our grocery shopping there. We bought a whole fish, shrimp and veggies for the bbq for a surprise dinner for Papi. He came home early and we all played outside together and then ate a delicious meal on the back terrace. It was the first time we had a "valentine's" dinner as a family and we had a really fun time. We had cupcakes for dessert, danced to some fun tunes and put the kids down around 8.

Alexia entertained Marco while taking breaks from the soccer game with Ricardo and Diego.

We asked Diego to take a picture of us before dinner and this was the best out of 3 attempts.

Diego is not a big fish fan and has not had it for months and months. We told him he had to eat fish (red snapper) and shrimp for dinner. He spit out the shrimp (I love it, but can definitely understand why he didn't) and he devoured his fish. Alexia couldn't eat her fish fast enough (with her hands) and lil' Marco ate almost half of my serving of fish. I gave him tiny pieces and he would complain between bites because I wasn't serving it fast enough. His other new favorite is pureed spinach, yep, just plain ol' spinach.