Feeling the Love

I'm learning all about Valentine's right now. It's about hearts, the colors pink and red, getting cards, and making cookies. Oh, yeah, and saying "I love you". To show my love, I made Daddy and my grandmas valentines. I also gave Daddy cookies I decorated at the Melkers' Valentine's party.

Making Daddy's Valentine

Tattoo from the valentines I gave my classmates

Decorating cookies

Actual Valentine's Day also happened to be Chinese New Year, so we had lots of reasons to dress in our festive red. We spent the day doing things we love -- grocery shopping, eating, and just being together -- while trying to follow some of the traditions as well.

Happy Valentine's ...

... and Xin Nian Kuai Le!

I wonder how Kai-Lan celebrated her New Years. Oh, that's right, I watched that episode about 10 times, so I know!

Here I am in my pretty vest that Po-Po and Gong-Gong gave me

Quietly hanging out in the Kai-Lan tent Jacob gave me

Okay, okay, this is how it REALLY was most of the time

No, your eyes do not decieve you. Yes, I am still swimming in February! Luckily our pool is indoors, so I can still get lots of practice before the weather gets warm and I start swimming at our neighborhood pool. I've moved up in classes to where Daddy doesn't go into the pool with me anymore. Instead, I sit on the side of the pool, and we each take turns with our instructor. Luckily, I'm really good at taking turns, so it's not a problem. I'm doing an awesome job swimming; I can go 10 seconds under water and swim forwards by myself!

Waiting my turn

In I go!

We also got REAL snow here ... that kind of snow that just begs to be rolled up into a snowman without having to really work at it. They closed school, and everyone in the neighborhood headed outside to build snowmen, forts, and other snow sculptures. I surprised Mommy when we got outside by promptly laying down on the ground to make a snow angel; she had no idea I knew what a snow angel is! I also remembered making snowballs from when we had that snow at the community festival, but I had forgotten how cold it is on my fingers. Brrr! Thank you, Auntie Corrie, for some of these pics!

Let's go, Mommy!

Dressed like Paddington to go outside

This spot looks good

Waving my angel wings!

I'm a pro at this snowball thing

Kaylie had come over to play, so after we played outside in the snow, we came back inside to hang out in my playrooms and do what all two-year-olds do: compare iPhone games.

Peek-a-boo!

Hmm .. you have touch pets but I have Tozzle

Showing off my page of games

Hey, can we go outside again?

Kaylie and I also got together recently to play at the Wiggles Center which is so much fun. As soon as I saw Kaylie, we grabbed each others' hands and were off playing. This time, however, I'd decided that I'm scared of slides ... all slides. Mommy has no idea why, but it made for getting down a bit of trouble.

I love this part

"C'mon, Kaylie!" ... "C'mon, Claire!"

So happy together
Well, everyone but Gavin,
but he really wasn't as unhappy as he looks in the picture

February's been busy, and it's still not over yet! Make sure you check out all the extra pics in our February photo album!