Happy Valentine’s Day from the McPherson family! As you can see, Clare is our favorite valentine. She’s in a little Valentine ensemble (aka an art project made on a paper bag) that she and Manny Adam have been working on the past few weeks. Clare has been loving the art projects, requesting “painting” regularly.
TOUCHDOWN!
Besides Valentine’s activities of reading books, eating (and cheering for) dinner, and Clare’s favorite hugging/kissing relay between her parents, we’ve been celebrating J’s birthday. On Saturday we dropped the kiddo off with the grandparents and went into wine country with our friends. BC (Before Child), I don’t think I fully appreciated how luxurious a whole day spent just enjoying food, wine and good company was. To top it off (and it didn’t really need topping, the day was so nice) J and I stayed at a very nice winery resort complete with delicious dinner and brunch. Ahhhhh… long bubble baths, a warm fire, good wine, sleeping in, uninterrupted conversations with each other… it seemed like a little slice of heaven.
But, of course, by Sunday morning we were itching to get back to our little sweetie. She had a great time with Grandma and Grampa but I think she was glad to see us as well. We’ve had lots of hugs and kisses since – if we give her a kiss she’ll ask for “a hug” and vice versa. She continues adding to her vocabulary, including providing a running commentary to our lives. She tells us “Grandma cooking,” “Daddy yawn,” “I sit,” “Mama back,” and any other activity that might be going on. She also picks up any word even if we just say it once. Tonight I taught her tortilla, and I bet she’ll be asking for more tortillas tomorrow.
