Daily I look into my daughter's eyes and get lost. They're just the most amazingly detailed brown eyes I've ever seen.

Today (after having been sick for almost 3 weeks) I picked up my camera when the kids played outside in the snow. When I saw this one on the LCD I was excited to check it out on the computer screen as well. It's my new favorite.

Kate's favorite color is pink, she says. It used to be orange, sometimes blue, now it's pink. Kate also is rather intrigued by boobies. She'll lift her shirt and will ask me when they'll grow bigger and bigger. She was (in my opinion) very fortunate. She got to drink mommy's milk for 33 months.

This morning she woke up, after having crawled into our bed at about 3:30 am, when we were both too tired to send her back to her own bed. One of the first things she told me: "Oh, there's your cute little boobies." I have no idea where that came from, they're really not little. And cute, well, no one has used that to describe them in many many years. Sweet moment it was, though.

Kate doesn't know about breastcancer, she hasn't had to deal with that in her young life. I was 10 or 11 when I first was confronted with its existence, when my mom found a lump. A lump which thankfully turned out to be a benign cyst.

I heart faces is honoring breastcancer awareness week for week 41, and the theme is "Pink".

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Since she was little I've been singing my own version of Brahm's lullaby for Kate. I'd hate to forget, so here it goes:

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Little Kate go to sleep
It is time to go to bed
And get some rest
It is time to close your eyes
And say your good nights
It is time to close your eyes
And go beddy bye bye.

Poetry it isn't, but it's all ours :-)

She doesn't wear blue a lot, so I started digging through photos. Stumbled on this one. When there's one of these holes, a child must simply stick their head through. Kate's no different. This time I decided a different angle was called for. I love how the blue and brown sparkle with her eyes.

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She got into it, and really wanted to pose, kept coming to the camera to see how things turned out :-)

I asked her to "look real pretty". This is what she came up with.

Pulled the camera out to photograph this:

They're still there, her animals and dinosaurs. Not een sure if she got all of them up there. She has so many of them. They keep her busy for hours though. It might just be worth it.

Kate has been figuring out family relationships. She's also been talking about when she'll be having babies. There's going to be a boy and a girl. Once in awhile she comes up with fun and funky names for her offspring too. (Soosha for a girl for instance).

Yesterday while driving to pick up her big brothers from school she was having the babies talk again. Then she asked me the question: "Mom, how do they come out?".

The answer I gave her that babies come out of the birth canal and that mommies' bodies change to allow the baby to come out. She asked: "They don't just jump out of your belly?". "No, Kate, they don't just jump out.". She didn't have any more questions at that time.

This is an image I put together for Kate's birthday party. The dinosaurs are the one she always plays with. It's a combo of 4 images. (2 for the pterodactyl, 1 for kate and then the rest). It was fun, and she loves it! She insisted that her favorite ones were included. We just HAD to have a duckbill.