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!!