Happy Valentine's Day

I had big plans for taking the kids into town and surprising daddy at work with lunch and cookies and possibly decorating his car, then at 4:00 am he got called off; which of course was even more fun. Allie and AJ were so excited for Valentine's Day. They love holidays or any reason to celebrate.
We ended up going into town and getting lunch and then planned to take Nana a Valentine's Day surprise at work. However, she came home for lunch while we were at her house so we just gave her the surprise there.
We gave Allie and AJ some new markers and drawing paper. They have been busy creating all sorts of pictures and I am pretty sure Allie has already used up all her paper.
Valentine's Day was also Anna's 7-month mark. She is on the verge of crawling. Today she got up on her hands and knees about 5 different times. She gets so angry when ever she is working on this skill. I don't really want her to crawl on one hand, but on the other I wish she'd learn so she can relax a bit.
I can't believe how busy she is. She has to see everything that is going on and grab everything in sight. She loves to play with her toys and especially loves Allie and AJ. She can be all but asleep in the evenings and hear Alberto come home and she suddenly gets a second wind. He loves it. It sort of annoys me because I have to work to get her to re-focus on going to sleep and nursing.
Poor baby has been sick a lot over the last couple months. We keep getting these dumb colds. I feel so bad because the twins were never sick until they were about a year old and poor Anna has had the croup twice, bronchiolitis, an ear infection and a form of hand, foot and mouth where you only get it in your mouth, plus a couple little colds. She is just about over the most recent round of junk and I am hoping against hope that it has run its course and we can have a break for a while.
Between sickness and distractions, she is becoming a little stinker at feeding time.
She is turning into quite a copy cat. In addition to shaking her head "No" and clapping, she is trying to wave and will fake cough when she hears someone cough. She also does a little fake laugh at times and likes to try to make clicking and motorboat noises if you do them to her.
She has 2 little teeth on the bottom and still loves to feel them with her tongue. The last few days she has started sticking her tongue out and then curling the tip up. She does it constantly. It is pretty cute.
Anna still wakes up once in the wee hours to nurse and often times wakes up crying, but will usually put herself back to sleep fairly quickly.
Allie and AJ are fun and funny as ever. Alberto has introduced them to Capoeria, Brazilian martial arts, so now we spend most evenings looking up videos on line and watching the twins try out the moves. I actually don't mind it because in Capoeria they don't actually touch each other so its not violent. It is essentially dancing.
Allie and AJ still play really well together for the most part, but lately when they play with friends, it goes so much better if AJ has a buddy and Allie has a girlfriend over. It is funny how boys and girls just naturally play differently. Today AJ's "best buddy", Mason, was over all day. Poor Allie tries so hard to keep up with the 2 boys and get in on their "boy stuff", but she just gets frustrated and ends up sad. Luckily, her little friend Ayla invited her over to play dress up. Watching them grow and change is so interesting to me.