Dia del Amor con las ninas....

Yesterday we decided to have a little celebration for Valentine's Day at the hogar. We had the girls draw names out of a hat and then they had to make a card for the girl the drew for Valentine's day. It was wonderful chaos as are all of our activities at the hogar. I also had the idea to do potato art for the cards so we made some potato stamps with hearts and stars for them to use.

It's always hilarious to use paint with the girls because they LOVE it so much. They painted the sponges we used for sponge art as well as the potatoes more than they painted to actual cards, but it was still great.

Paiting the potato stamps

Doesn't she look terrified? She actually posed for this when I told her to look at me for the photo and said "Wait tia" and looked up again with this face for the photo!

This little stinker just painted her whole potato....

Once everyone had finished the cards, we had a big presentation where each girl gave their cards and a little bag of candy to another girl. We also made them hug or kiss on the cheek. The cutest was that 2 sister had each other (5 and 7 years old) and it was just insanely cute when they gave each other a big ole hug!

All of us with the cards in the TV room after the big reveal!!

After that we decorated brownies with tons of delicious sugary Valentine's day goodies. All in all,it was a super fun day.

Alos, right as I was leaving one of my favorite girls came running up to give me a hug goodbye and randomly said "Tia Romy, when do you have to go back to your country?"
It was super random, because they never ask me about that.  I replied in roughly 3 months and she gave me another big hug and said "Ok, but you at least have to stay until my birthday. It's on May 26. A lot of the other girls have birthdays around there too, but mine is on the 26th."
How am I ever going to leave them!!!!


Happy Valentine's Day!