Laughs and Preschool crafts

We have had a crazy busy day. I am exhausted already and it's only 4 pm!
I really love handmade Valentines so, to keep Jack busy while I have been working I have had him threading beads onto pipe cleaners to make heart ornaments for Valentine's Day.

I was NOT going to do a Valentine tree this year (I am enjoying the post Christmas sparseness), but I need a place to hang these. Hopefully I can get a small tree up by Weds, as I saw another super cute Valentine ornament to make him with tomorrow.
He has really taken to playing outside for an hour a day, no matter the weather. I thought I had better snap a shot of him in his little car before he is way too big to ride in it anymore. I am not even sure how he manages now?!?
And this scene out the backdoor while I was working on the dishes cracked me up.

I think he is working on a career in exterior illumination.

Or maybe it's a lifetime of gnome domination? (He has them all lined up there, you can't see some of them behind him.)