getting bigger

"Mom, LOOK!" Lily exuded when I came home from work today, clinging to her ear lobe.  She had noticed a small freckle on her ear for the first time.

"I'm getting bigger!  See?  Soon I can wear earrings!"

She is totally convinced that one of the highlights of growing bigger is that your ears naturally get holes for earrings :)  It was so cute!

Meanwhile, Sofie is sporting her "bel ti-chinet" (beautiful little tooth-gap) ...a cultural beauty mark, along with her now SIX teeth.  We've been told that people with gaps between their front two teeth are at a high level of beauty, and that Haitians with money have even been known to have their front teeth filed away to create this gap!  So, as long as Sofie has it, we'll be staying in Haiti :)