All about Claire

Claire loves to climb right now and she is almost 17 months old.  Claire's favorite things are: snacks (she will eat almost anything), ceiling fans, dogs, her big sister, and playing in the water.  She thinks she is hilarious and makes us laugh a lot.  She doesn't say too much yet except nana for banana.  She will shake her head yes or no when you ask her a question.  She loves to go outside and play.  She usually heads for her shoes as soon as she wakes up to try and get you to take her outside.

Yesterday Claire was knocking down some blocks Kate was playing with.  Kate was getting more upset with her and wouldn't share her blocks.  She started with "I don't like Claire" then we hear "I hate Claire."  So Kate ended up in time out.  I knew it was only a matter of time but so far they usually get along fairly well.

Both of them are growing so quickly and they are definitely looking forward to summer.

Claire is growing up

Claire is getting bigger and loves to climb everything.  She is doing her best to keep up with her big sister.  She doesn't say too much besides nana for banana .  She shakes her head yes or no when we ask her questions.  She loves to eat anything and had her first fugesicle this week as you can see it's a success.

Kate just had her 2nd week of soccer .  She really likes it so far.  It's just once a week for 45 min so they do different drills and then scrimmage.

Hamburger balls

Since Kate is 4, we are being more strict with dinnertime.  She is now old enough to eat what we eat and sit down without getting up a million times.  Tonight we grilled hamburgers and she threw a fit and wouldn't even try them.  So we told her not to ask for snacks until she ate her dinner.  We wrapped it up and put it in the fridge.  Several times she asked for snacks and each time we offered her the hamburger.  She cried and whined.  She had 3 timeouts as she screamed and protested eating the hamburger.  Finally it's 8:30 at night and she's hungry.  So Jamisen comes up with the bright idea to offer her "hamburger balls."  She gets really excited .  So he takes pieces of hamburgers and rolls them inside pieces of buns.  She starts eating them and then says "this is the best thing I've ever had."   This was a long day....

Videos

Kate is actually being nice to her sister....



Right when Claire first starting walking pretty well...

More pictures

Claire's first pigtails when her hair was still wet out of the bath.  She doesn't look to enthusiastic.

 Kate in the laundry basket in one of her favorite nightgowns that she got for Christmas--Rapunzel.

 Girl's day out.  Kate and I got a pedicure together went shopping for hair accessories.  Then to Starbucks for hot chocolate and cake pop.  Last stop was Michael's to buy some Easter decorations.  Fun day!

 Easter decorations!!  Getting ready for everyone to come over for Easter Brunch.

 Claire trying out all her sister's headbands.

 Very cold day at the "Dinosaur Park" as Kate calls it.  Grandma and I took her while Claire was napping with Bucka.   We didn't stay long, it was freezing and windy.

Catching up

I've been pretty horrible at updating the blog, I can't believe it's been February since I posted last.  We've been pretty busy.  Kate and Claire are both pretty active and they don't go to bed until a little later and usually I'm just too worn out to post. Claire loves to bang on the keyboard so I can't do much with her around.

So I will be posting some older pictures and videos to try to catch up the blog on what has been going on.

Claire starting walking around 13 months and has been trying to keep up with her big sister.  She loves climbing on everything. She doesn't talk much except for mama, dadda, and banana.  Banana is her favorite word which sounds mostly like nananananana.  We thought she was just babbling but she says it when she sees a banana or when she wants one.

 Kate has been talking about going to a carousel non stop so we took some money out her bank and went.  She loved it, I was pretty nauseous.

 Kate got a gift card from Aunt Debbie and Uncle Chuck for her birthday so we went to Toys R Us.  She picked out a new bike helmet, some finger paints, and some fairy coloring pages.

 Kate still loves to bake .  She thought we should make the cookies shown on the sugar .