Happy Valentine’s Day!

Things here are going well. Parker is doing great in school. We keep getting more and more beautiful artwork sent home from her school. We got a really cute painted frame with a picture of her in it for Valentine’s Day. She had a Valentine’s party and had her first Valentine exchange.
Parker is still doing more and more things every day. She is an expert at signing when she wants food, she is starting to say “uh oh” whenever something falls, if she can’t find something she always looks at us and shrugs her shoulders with her elbows bent and palms up, she is now able to stack her colored rings on the post, she stacks blocks, she has gotten the hang of having a tea party and actually pretends to pour tea and drink it from her cup (although she wasn’t quite doing it yet at the point when I took the video), and she follows directions really well. She’s also been playing the piano a lot, lately, too. She really seems to be into music and instruments, she loves kicking a soccer ball, and her teachers say she’s really into art and looks like she’s going to be an artist. It’s fun watching her come home with new skills all the time.
Our neighbor has kids who have all grown out of a lot of their toys and so he gave us their old slide. We finally cleaned it off and brought it inside today (we’ll probably keep it outside once it gets warmer) and Parker LOVED it. She was so funny squealing while she played. I got a couple videos of her first reactions to it.
Here are some pictures from the last 2 weeks. We had some friends over a couple weeks ago and Parker had fun playing with Brody and Jackson again since she doesn’t get to see them much anymore. That’s what the first pictures are from. The rest are just different cute points during the weeks.

2-1-10 to 2-14-10