This is "normal", the acting one way with others and something different with you...she is probably in "ruminating" mode with you, funny thing is, they feel safest being that way with the LBS, with others they have to put on "the show".
Don't read too much into it, her reactions to your gifts, keep working on and being YOU.
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
