Clarey

Clare is so much fun right now. She is at a super fun age where she can tell us everything she needs to and we can play and pretend together but where she still wants to cuddle and be cuddled. She and I have had so much fun this fall and winter spending time together while Shea's been in school. I'm afraid she's going to have a really hard adjustment in the next little while when I'm not just hers anymore. Here's a few funny things she's done/said lately:

1- Today I was getting dressed and she came in and started giggling. She said, "Mommy, your belly has a nose!!" (Yes, my belly button has popped out - Baby, you're done! Come out!!!) :-)

2- She got her very first nightgown. I hadn't ever gotten her one because they ride up and they're irritating and I didn't want her to be cold, but I guess I never thought about it from her perspective. This girl LOVES dresses and skirts. There was a super cheap nightgown online that I bought, when it got here, and she put it on I realized - She was ecstatic! A DRESS! That she gets to wear to bed?!! She gets to be a princess in her sleep? It was a revelation to her and a dream come true. She NEVER chooses other jammies now. Good thing it's big - she'll be able to wear it for a long time :-)
3- Clare is in LOVE with the princesses. As much as Chris and I always said we'd never let her wear tacky princess dresses and have princesses and barbies - you just can't deny the girl if that's what she loves. This was her reaction to seeing the princesses in the Disneyland Christmas parade. Look at that face! She loves them!!
For Christmas she got a Princess computer and a Princess scooter. She was so happy with both!

4- We watched the beginning of Sound of Music the other night and a few days later Chris went in to tell Clare to stop singing and go to sleep. He heard her singing, "Jesus wants me for a nun."

5- She was in the bathroom the other day getting ready for bed and all the sudden she started screaming, "Mom, a bug! A bug! A bug!" I went in there and found this:
She had crawled totally on top of the potty to escape the teeny tiny bug across the bathroom.

Love you Clarey!