Valentine's Birthday Bash!

Here's our family's favorite Valentine! (Eliza was a great "helper" with opening presents)
Happy Birthday, Momma!

Dad framed Mom's Masters of Science and Nursing Diploma from USC! VERY NICE. I want one of those!!

Here's how Reuben likes to party:

And Eliza celebrated by barfing everything up a few minutes before bed. And she insisted on cleaning up herself. :^( She still kind of sick and threw up again yesterday- poor girl!

Hope everybody had a great Valentine's Day!

Another more macabre part of my day... I took a bouquet of fuschia roses to Amber's grave. Valentine's Day reminds me of her growing up because I always bought her carnations so she would have one delivered to her in class in high school. It was good to remember Amber who was SO full of love on this, the official day of love.

Pedicure Reciprocated!

So I promise that I change Eliza's clothes. She just requests her Cinderella dress most evenings!

This evening, in an effort to convince Eliza to let me trim her fingernails and toenails, I got out my nail polish (that I'd recently purchased after Aunt Mer recommended a pedicure to help me do something nice for myself. $1 nail polish from Wal-Mart probably wasn't what she had in mind, but I'd lost my nail polish in my last move anyways, so I thought I'd restock.)

Eliza loved the idea of getting her nails painted. I put a towel down on the ground and tried to paint her nails, even though they were a slightly moving target. She admired my work after I finished.

And then, she being the altruistic child that she is, wanted to return the favor!

"Mommy, now it's your turn! I do your nails!" Uhhh... and I forgot to say no. But at least I said toes only, right?? After all, I didn't want to crush her little creative spirit or something.

I think her results were pretty good for a two year old who kept painting even while turning her head away to watch the TV show! Haha.

I need to find the nail polish remover. At least it's not sandal season!!