Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! Laina had a party at school yesterday and this morning her Daddy gave us both flowers and candy, and together we gave her some stickers and small stuff. Today we went to a local puppet show and tonight we'll have a special dinner, so we are all having a very nice day. All Laina is interested in is the candy, of course. Every couple of minutes she says, "can I have some candy now?, how about some chocolate? Where are my treats?"..the sugar radar is ON. Here're some photos for you. One is her photo from yesterday in her heart shirt for school.One is of her painting, with 4 brushes at once! One is in her "Lounge Singer" getup, she asked special permission to get on the table, "just for a minute, for my show", and a couple of other fun outfits she put together. Thanks Holly(and Holly's Girls) and Betsy, and Grandma for all the dressups, as you can see, they are getting some attention! She is very independent lately, trying to put on her clothes and doing a lot more by herself. She feeds the cats every morning and has informed us that we can give away her high chair to another baby. She helps me all the time, and also has started brushing my hair. She finally has some hair herself and will let me put barrettes in it sometimes. Seems like progress! She uses the potty 1 or 2 times a day, when we mention it, but has not started telling us when she has to go.She asked me why boys have "peanuts" and recently pointed some out to me on a nude male statue in a local statue park, so we are having some more talk about bodies. She asked a pregnant friend if she could see her baby so we had to tell her it was still growing in there. She also told her Day Caregiver, Nancy, that "I was born in Mama's arms, in China" Gave me some big warm fuzzies to hear that!