Love

Valentine's Day has come and gone.  This year was not so exciting nor romantic, perhaps, as past years.  But it was a nice day.  Last year Mary was here and helped to decorate the whole house as well as prepare a delicious meal--almost all of which was pink or red.  This year was much more low key.  The big kids had fun at their school parties and the little ones had fun eating candy provided by dad.  We talked about love and appreciating the people in our life.  I am so grateful for all of the love with which I'm surrounded.

Recently our lives have become even more enriched with love as our friendship with one of the families in our ward has grown stronger.  The V family has 5 children, like us, and almost all in the same age range.  Mom S is definitely a kindred spirit and I feel so blessed to have a close friend nearby.  I can just tell that she is somebody with whom I will be friends with for a very long time and probably was friends with before.

The funniest relationship between the families is that of the youngest two.  K & Lila are not really at the "cooperative play" stage yet.  They are always very excited when they first see each other, but then they mostly just play at their own thing.  It seems the only time they really notice each other is: 1. if one has a toy that the other thinks they shouldn't have ("mine! mine! mine!") or 2. if they want to...kiss.

The other day I was watching K and his sister R while their mom went to the dr.  I noticed K & Lila had gone out to the slide to drink their chocolate milk together on the same step.  I thought it was so cute that I ran to grab my phone to take a photo.  But they gave me even more than a cute "sitting on the step" shot.

The following Sunday in the nursery at church, I was observing them (Lila won't stay in nursery alone.  The leaders kindly told Jason last week to leave because they could handle her but after 70 minutes of screaming  they finally came and found me).  Lila and K were jumping around while one of the leaders blew some bubbles over their heads.  Then, out of the blue, I saw they had their arms around each other and were kissing.  Not just like a little peck but lips locked...for several seconds.  I laughed out loud but was not heard over the other kids shouting.  Lila parted from K momentarily before she put an arm behind his neck, he put his arms around her waist, and they began to kiss again.  What???!   It was about the cutest thing I'd ever seen.  But only because neither of them is yet two years of age and because I know that to this point in their life they only know that kissing is a way of showing affection to somebody special to you.  I hope that these two will be great friends to each other for a long time.  The kissing thing?  We'll just have to see how that goes.

R and Miles are also good little buddies.  I think she is absolutely gorgeous.  We were at their house before I brought them to mine.  I heard R and Miles in her room and then he came out to wait.  He said, "Don't go back there.  R is putting on her princess clothes."  Shortly after, she came out, twirled for us and said, "I told Miles he could  choose whatever clothes he wanted me to wear and he chose this pretty princess dress.  Do you like it?"
Here they are watching "Brave" together.  R is about 8 months older than Miles so when the movie got scary for him, she'd snuggle next to him and remind him it wasn't real:

Miles is still very very attached to his blue bunny and cares for it quite lovingly.  While watching the aforementioned movie, he had his bunny and R had another stuffed animal.  A puppy I think?    I enjoyed this conversation:
M: Does your puppy like this show?
R: Huh???
M:  Your puppy.  Does she like this show?
R:  What do you mean?
M:  My bunny likes to watch this show.  He thinks its kind of scary but he likes it.  Does your puppy?
R: Uh...I don't really know what you mean because..well...my puppy can't talk or anything.

 Anyway...that's my Valentine's Day post about love.  Lila + K.  Miles + R.  Miles + Blue Bunny.  True love 4ever.