Love sweet love

Valentine's day. 

 A day where you bare your soul to the one you love.

A day to tell them how much they mean to you and how grateful you are to have them in your life. 

A day for romance... for all ages.

 Alexis has an admirer (we'll call him Mr. B).  I picked her up from school today and boy did she have a lot to say. :)  Today was her Valentine's Day party. They did the usual card exchange and her admirer gave her a present!  A chocolate bear (which she had already devoured) a handful of cards and lots of handmade "gifts".  It was so sweet! He even made a card that said "do you like me? yes or no?" The dillemma: She has a crush on another little boy in her class (Mr. J). So our dinner conversation tonight was filled with our little second grader's thoughts on how she should break it to Mr. B that she just wants to be friends.

Ken's solution, "tell him my dad says I can't have a boyfriend until I'm 30" haha!

Don't worry Ken, you're the only man in their life... for now anyway! :)

(the girls with their Valentine's present from daddy)

Houston we have liftoff!

We have a new crawler!! Anna has been crawling backwards for a couple of weeks now and we finally have forward progress! She gets up on her hand and knees now and rocks back and forth (I guess for momentum) and then she'll take a big lunge forward. Its hilarious. Addison has been working with her ;) She'll get on her hands and knees and crawl around the floor and say "come Anna". Its pretty comical. Toys don't seem to motivate her to crawl though, for now she only wants to crawl if there's food, electronics or jewelry to reach for. So she's got her basics covered.

Here's a video of her rocking.. This was taken a few days ago so it doesn't show her actually moving forward but its still pretty funny to see. I'll try to get a new video in the next day or so.