This child is not messing around.

If you happen to glance at your calendar, you’ll notice we’re a full eight days out of what has got to be Charlie Girl’s favorite day of the year: Valentine’s Day. If you wonder what it is about that day that does it for her, take a quick look at her bedroom and I’m wagering it’ll come into focus…

…pink.

We’re loving The Rebel Force, by the way. And, believe me, it takes much better photos than the one up top…even though that’s a good shot. What makes me happy about it is that it was very dark in the room where I snuck and positioned myself close enough to catch her in the act without her seeing me. And the proper settings on the camera allowed for a capture I’m happy with. Still learning all the tricks and having a good time in the process. A shot like that, in focus and ample light (there wasn’t), and I’m very impressed.

But not nearly as impressed as I am with her assembly line of what looks to be some serious Valentine’s Card production.

This child put on her pink shirt, pink baubles, and then put pink stickers on her face. She then created a pink box and set about writing her classmate’s names on cards in (wait for it) pink ink.

Then the pink Hershey’s™ Kisses. And the pink M&Ms.

This girl’s working hard for the money.

I only hope I’m able to hold out the eight more days and not break under her near-constant begging that we open up presents early (read: she gets to open the present she hopes I’ve gotten her).

I think it’s really sweet that she and Cute Redhead have every expectation that I, the High Powered Man and Daddy, will be delivering no shortage of gifts and sweet-nothings come the 14th. Alpha Male and Beta Male would rather go to the doctor than suffer the day at all.

But there’s something about being your baby girl’s Ideal that made me glad to stand in line at the store the other day, the only male in the entire store (as far as I could tell), and holding one little blue and white polka dot dress with a butterfly on it that Miss Child is counting on showing up a week from tomorrow.

I wonder, too, if one of those little Valentine’s cards with a chocolate Kiss® has my name on it…

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