Sunday, April 29, 2012

14 months old!

On April 25th, Claire turned 14 months old! Her top two teeth have finally popped through. And her adorable smile is now even cuter :)

She has always loved animals. She loves dogs, seeing the animals at Blue Bird Farm, animal books, animal stuffed animals, etc. Now she can make the animal sounds for some of her favorites. She can say "baa" for sheep, "ruff" for dog, "tweat, tweat" for bird, "meow" for cat, "moo" for cow, "hiss" for snake and "honk" for goose. It seems like she learns a new one everyday!

The other day, we were telling Molly to sit for her treat. And the next thing we know, Claire is saying "sit" to Molly. Now, she says it to her all the time! And sometimes Molly even listens.

When she thinks her food is too hot, she'll say hot and will try to blow on it. Or hold it up for you to blow on it. She also is getting a lot better using her utensils. She fed herself yogurt really well with her spoon. Favorite foods are still yogurt, eggs with anything mixed in like broccoli, cheese, zucchini, etc., blackberries, melon, peanut butter crackers, and goldfish.

She has discovered zippers and loves to zip and unzip her jackets and take them off.

Instead of crawling up the stairs, she can now step up one by one holding onto something. She loves climbing onto things, the sofa, chairs, etc. At the playground, she can climb up the stairs and go down the slide all by herself!! She is getting so big!

Daddy loves to make me laugh!


Special treat from the ice cream truck

Just sitting in my toy basket

Ready for lunch!

Hanging out with Daddy!


We switched her to the "big girl" car seat and we found her crawling into her old one while we were cleaning it out.

Another animal book :)

 Lounging on the porch

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Easter 2012!!

We had a wonderful Easter this year! It is so much fun to now have a little one to experience the holidays with. We spent the weekend in Williamsburg and went to church Sunday morning. Claire was all dolled up in her Easter dress :) After church and naps we went to Poquoson for the annual cousin Easter egg hunt and an early dinner. Claire loved picking up all of the eggs and putting them into her basket. She had just as much fun opening and closing the eggs she found!!

All ready for church with her snack cup ready to go!

Hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa in her mini chair

What did the Easter Bunny bring?!?!

Another basket!!

Loving on her bunny

Our little bunny

Another one!!

All lined up and ready for the Easter egg hunt! Ready, set....

Go!

Lots of helpers!

She held her own though

There's one Papa

Open, close, open, close

Cutie!!

Happy Easter!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

13 months old!

Claire turned 13 months on March 25th! No more monthly belly stickers after 12 months :( My little baby is growing up. But I'm still going to try to keep up with the monthly posts to keep up with everything she's into.

Claire is as steady as ever on her feet and now likes to run! She is so fast! It's the best when she runs and laughs when you pretend to chase her. She thinks it's the funniest thing. She also likes to have Molly chase her around the house trying to give Molly one of her snacks.

Claire is talking up a storm more and more. She says in her own way: mama, dada, Molly, dog, bird, book, more, ball, waffle, yes, rock, hi and bye.

She loves to watch the birds! She loves to sit on her window seat after she wakes up in the morning and after nap time and just watch the birds out in the trees. When we're outside somewhere when she hears birds chirping she'll say "birds!" and then we try to see where they are and point them out.

Claire loves to dance and sway to music. Riding in the shopping carts she likes to rock back and forth and say rock, rock, rock. She loves to play in her play kitchen. You can tell her to go cook you something in the kitchen and she'll go straight to it and start cooking away. She loves to stir the pot with her spoon and let you try a bite. You can tell her to turn the stove on and she will twist the on/off button on her kitchen. It's amazing how much she understands!! She also loves to have pretend tea parties with you. She will pour you a cup of tea if you ask :)

13 months old!


Playing with her cupcake kitchen at Grammie and Papa's

Loving on her lovey blanket



Talking on Daddy's phone...hello!

Visit to Bluebird Gap Farm to see all of the animals!!


Time for a tea party!

DC Visit

A couple of weekends ago we made a quick day trip up to DC!! My cousin from Chicago was in town and Kristen was in DC for a wedding shower. It was so nice seeing everyone!!

Playing with cousins!



Checking out the water


Laughing the whole walk back with Daddy!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Easter Egg Hunt

Our church had an Easter egg hunt today and Claire had so much fun! They divided it up by age and Claire was in the under 2 group. We lined up behind the line and waited for the "go." There were a ton of eggs and a ton of kids! The eggs were gone in about 15 seconds. Claire got one!! And a nice little girl (or her mom) gave Claire another. Claire loved her 2 eggs!! Open and close, open and close. She also loved the stickers inside. Ever since we did the the monthly stickers on her stomach for her monthly birthday, any sticker she gets goes straight to her belly!

There were also a petting zoo which I think Claire loved the most! There were baby ducks, chicks, bunnies and llamas. She talked, waved, pet and just stared at all of them. She had a great time!



Getting ready

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Hanging out with Daddy



All lined up and ready to go!



She loved the baby ducks and chicks!


Bunnies!


With the ducks and chicks again :)

Playing afterwards

Driving the fire truck