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Julianne, that's lovely. You've caught her face perfectly as far as the likeness goes, and what a beautiful child, too.
With your values, I always look to see where my darkest darks lie, and then compare those with other darks in the picture. In this one the shadows in her hair, on either side of her face, are darkest, but the corners of her mouth and the eyelashes of her right eye (our left) are almost as dark, and yet they don't give that impression in your painting. The hair just above her forehead on her right (our left) is also darker in the reference photo, and in general the hair tends to be a bit darker than you've got it. As far as lights, her forehead, cheeks, bridge of the nose and hollow in her throat are much brighter, relatively speaking, in the photo than in the painting. Lightening them up would also bring a bit more life to the work. In other words I'd punch up some of the contrast overall and see where that gets you.
Aside from that, on my monitor the reference photo skin tones are pink and blue; in the painting they have more of a yellow and green tone. That makes the painting more monochromatic than perhaps it should be, since there's little difference between the colors in her hair and in her flesh. Take a look and see what you think. But these are just details, and what's impressive is that the face and features are exactly the same in both photo and painting. Kudos!
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