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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Naughty!

I guess the wall is my fault. I wrote her name and the date on the wall where I'd marked her 18 month height. Stupidly, I didn't wait until she wasn't watching. I didn't think anything about it.
I turned my back and found her addition to my wall...
I guess I just need to consider myself lucky that this is the first time my walls have ever been colored on!! How did I know it would be Clare?? :-)
Not even 4 hours later she found where I kept the markers, and made herself "pretty." She loves to watch mommy put on her makeup and LOVES when I let her put on "lips." So hey, the marker was pink. She was sooo happy about this. She thought she looked just lovely! :-)



Friday, August 28, 2009

Thursday, August 27, 2009

18 months

Sassy!
At 18 months Clare is a petite little thing. She is 30 inches tall (7th percentile) and 20 pounds (3rd percentile). But she packs enough sass for a child 5 times that big. :-) She also has a monster appetite and out eats Shea at every meal so we'll see how long this petite thing lasts. Although she is sassy and definitely knows what she wants and doesn't want, she is so much fun right now. She follows "SheaShea" as she calls him, around and tries to do everything he does. One of my favorite sights is to see him holding her little hand and walking along with her. My hands are always full of stuff from the car to the house, so he "protects" her and holds her hand while they're walking. I love it!
She talks a lot! She parrots pretty much everything we say and even said her first prayer the other night by just repeating what I said. It was too cute.
She carries her teddy around all the time and will lay the blanket down, wrap the teddy up, tell us all to shh, shh, rock her for a minute and then do it all over again.
She can also be found with a phone in her hand pretty much any moment of the day, carrying on the sweetest little jibberish conversations with "Bampa."
She weaned herself this past week. We were down to only one feeding right before she went to bed and we had a few weird, out of routine nights and all the sudden I realized that it had been 3 days since she'd nursed at all and boom, that was that, she was done. I was sad that I didn't get to savor that last sweet tender cuddle but happy that I now get to sleep through the night!
So that's our girl right now. You never know if you'll get screaming, time out, hating sassy pants or sweet, singing & dancing chatter box. Either way, she's an adventure and I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world!!

Sweet

Her first french braid!!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

His very own iPod



I know!!! I know!!! He's only 4. We feel a little silly, but he LOVES, and I mean LOVES, LOVES, LOVES it!!!!!!!! We took my old iPod and put the scripture stories and primary songbook on it. He gets a few minutes of iPod time as he's lying in his bed before he falls asleep each night. I promise he's listened to the 3 1/2 minute story of Joseph in Egypt 20 times. I love as a parent when you get to make your kids this happy. :-)

Monday, August 24, 2009

Her favorite thing

is coloring. She asks to color about every 15 minutes throughout the day.

Oh, and she also loves to eat her colored pencils. :-) Look at those smiles, they must taste delicious.


Love you baby girl!!!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Dentist


The Pediatric residents at the UCLA Dental School were so cute with my kids. Shea now thinks that all dental tools are toys with cute names like Mr. Thirsty. He had more fun at the dentist than he's had at any of our outings yet this summer. And we're so happy to report that he still has zero cavities! :-) Thanks Dr. Michelle and Dr. Eddy. WE LOVE going to the Dentist now!