Baby "Pistachio" Blog: First Valentine's Day

Cupid's come....Cupid's come!! It's Brianna's first Valentine's Day! Of course I had to get a cute 1st Valentine's outfit to spoil her in. At daycare, Brianna made Valentine's hearts for both Jason and I. Jason surprised me with some beautiful and colorful flowers while I surprised him with Valentine's Day balloons. I wanted to get Brianna her own special Valentine's Day balloon, but all the balloons there were of the romantic or adult style, so I found the next best thing.....a giant baby balloon! I have no idea what she was thinking inside her beautiful little head while she was holding her balloon. Possibly..."why is there another baby in the room?!" Since Jason and I recently bought our first home, we are trying hard to scale back our Valentine's Day gifts to each other. That is until we saw that our favorite theater performance Les Miserables was coming to the Bushnell in Hartford, CT. We found dates that worked and checked the ticket prices.....over $200 a pop and that's for the nose bleed section tickets! So instead of treating ourselves out to a fancy theater date night, we did the next best thing and bought the PBS special performance of the play on DVD...ha! I guess mommies and daddies have to scale back sometimes. We redefined the definition of cute, romantic date night. We watched the performance over two nights Valentine's Day weekend. It's not the real thing and I'm not impressed by Nick Jonas' performance, but it was cute way to celebrate Brianna's first Valentine's Day! I wouldn't trade it for the world :)