"Be careful around the very cute girl! She's expensive."

I took the kids to a very active playground and up on the jungle gym/slide apparatus, with kids all buzzing around, Nick was wide eyed and arms spread wide trying to cover a 4ft wide protective circumference around Cheeks. That last phrase was kind of said in a quiet way that kind of tailed off. I may have been the only one to hear it. I think he may have been searching for a different word, like "precious". He, of course, has no idea about adoption investments, and I have no doubt that he would have said the same thing had she been biological. It is wonderful to watch...