My Valentine, made by Elan Elan and I had a Valentine-making session yesterday. The Valentines were super simple, homemade little bits of affection: a white heart, a piece of colored construction paper, a rainbow sticker. He wrote all the names of his classmates himself. He got excited when he wrote his name really well ("This is my best name ever, Mama!") and got only minimally down on himself when he didn't ("What happened to that E? That's a weird looking E!"). On the way to school this morning, he ... more