happy valentine's day!

Here's a picture of our new favorite vase! It's our Valentine's Day present from Zane that he decorated himself (with a little help from his teacher on the finishing touches).  Today he came home with the card holder he decorated with a bunch of valentine's cards from his friends.  They got to hand them out today... very cute! They also got to bake cookies and have a dance party with the waddler class to the Wiggles.  I think it was a fun day for him!  He even had a super small class with just his two best buddies - apparently they were in rare form cracking each other up all day.

Here he is helping to put his Valentine's together last night after dinner (we seem to always just barely be on time around here these days!):

He's been quite the little Mr. Manners lately, and we're both very excited about that!  Zane's been a champ about saying "please," "thank you," and "no thank you" lately.  I'm really hoping it sticks with him!  It is very hard though to continue doing something he doesn't like (changing his diaper, wiping his face, taking his pjs off in the morning...) when he's repeating "no thank you!" over and over again!

Another thing that's been tickling us about our little Valentine is the way he says words with an L in them like block, airplane, clock... they come out with an extra syllable, like "buh-lock" and "air-puh-lane."  He may say a few words that sound a little crass when they come out (truck and bulldozer come to mind!), but usually it's pretty sweet, like "guh-lub" (glove).