All About Claire

We went through a pretty rough patch with Claire, behavior wise, about a month ago. Things have drastically improved and we enjoy having our little girl back. She is quite the conversationalist and can pronounce just about any word. She does, however, call the kitchen a 'chicken' and a pool a 'cool'.

Claire likes to run errands. She loves to grocery shop with me and often cries if I tell her we are headed straight home after daycare. So, I try to plan quick little errands I can run with the two of them. Last week, I drove to get gas and happened to be very close to a park. I figured dinner could wait 20 minutes and we stopped to play on a somewhat warm day.

Claire loves to swing and is learning to pump her legs.

 Claire also loves to bake. While reading a book recently, a penguin surprised his friends with iced cutout cookies. Claire was asking me to make 'surprise' for days. I offered to make chocolate chip cookies with her and she insisted on 'surprise'. While Aunt Mimi was visiting on Sat., she and Claire went to the store for supplies. We made some pretty cute cookies. Tasty too.

We've had a training potty for Claire for a very long time now. She hasn't been all that interested, however, while taking a bath this week she stood up and yelled "Mommy, I have to go potty!" I swooped her up and set her down and she went. She then told me "Now I can go to school!" It was so cute.

It's happened in the following two baths since, so we'll see. She also wore underwear (alone) for a little while Sat. morning. We're crossing our fingers on that one.