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Nathan, I find that having four faces (the girl and the three snoopy dogs) in the painting is a bit distracting. It's especially difficult when the dogs have features with a very high level of contrast. You can begin to solve this problem by putting the big dog off to the right in deeper shadow.
Several things can be done to any part of a painting to make the eye glide over it and not arrest the viewer's attention as much as these dogs now do. Reducing the overall contrast of the dogs and greatly softening the edges of the dogs' eyes will help. Taking the values of the white bodies down a bit darker and making the eyes a medium grey will do it, if you're careful to make the white bodies still "read" as white.
I think you could keep the contrast/sharpness level of the dog on her lap pretty much as it is, but try to take as much attention away from the other stuffed animals as you can.
As for the main figure, can you post your reference? The gesture of her hands is very sweet and the skin tones seem quite good. The eyes seem a bit flat and that's why I was asking if we could see the reference.
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