okay, so my neice hailey possibly corners the market on warm fuzzies, next to josh. she almost has a monopoly on it, so i'm startin the ball rolling on some kind of lawsuit so she'll have to separate into smaller companies and let others get in on the warm fuzzy game.

tonight i was babysitting, and she told me she wanted to decorate for valentines day. joe told me later it was because she'd been to daycare earlier and her pal marina had made a bunch of decorations... so anyways, we spent about a half hour just drawing and cutting out construction paper hearts of various sizes and putting em in a basket while jacob put his entire hands in a stamp pad and then rolled em around a piece of paper.

after a while, i decided to pull out the big guns and i made one of those little heart garlands. and hailey thought it was the most awesome thing since dora the explorer juice boxes. until i realized there were as many hearts on the chain as there were letters in her name, and then i wrote those letters on the hearts and got promoted to god status.

for the next 15 minutes we made a bunch of heart garlands and put people's names on em, like mom and dad and jacob. then she says let's make one for you. and we count how many letters are in the word stephanie. i made the chain thing and she's all i can write it for you. so she wrote, while i told her what letters came next.

the resulting chain equals many warm fuzzies. it's just sweet. i'm gonna hang it above my toilet.