I feel a mumu and blue eye shadow coming on...

Claire is talking up a storm these days! It seems like everyday she says something new. So the following is a list of her words and the translations if needed:

"Dada"
"Uppy", "Huppy" & "Puppy" = Puppy and all other animals
"Hi"
"I see, I see" while pointing at object = she wants it
"Baba" = Bottle
"Baba" while waving = Bye bye
"Dough, dough" = No no
"Whoa, whoa, whoa" = Woof, woof, woof
"E-sus" = Jesus

For many months now I have also been "dada" and have been getting a little irritated that I spend more time with her and yet she will not say "mama", "mommy" or just plain old "mom". She even said Jesus and we only see pictures of him once a week at church. I couldn't have been more happy the other day when she finally gave me a name, I'm "mimi"! It's so cute to hear her say it.



I love this stage so much, she is picking things up so quickly. It is so much fun teaching her. She has really started to love books just within the last couple weeks. And today I asked her to fold her arms before our prayer and she did! It's really incredible watching her learn and grow, I love this little girl and I'm so glad that I get to be her "mimi"!



Claire was so proud of herself for climbing up there in 10 seconds and reorganizing my beauty products :)

Poop: Episode 2

We overslept Sunday morning and awoke to Claire's extremely high-pitch screams. We ran into her room and this is what we found:




That's right, Claire was totally butt-naked! She had mostly emptied her dirty clothes basket (by reaching through the slats in her crib) and then she somehow managed to get out of her footie pajamas and out of her poopy diaper and threw both of those onto the pile of clothes. Lucky for us she didn't smear it around like last time. She was sooooo proud of herself; she was smiling, giggling and dancing all over her crib. It was hilarious minus the poop. So Levi got Claire in the bath and I cleaned up the mess. I'm beginning to wonder what this girls fascination is with poop. And we were only 45 minutes late to church, oops!

Table Dancer

There is a song that I think was in the first Toy Story, "Strange Things are Happening". I feel like that is the theme song of my life lately.

We've been finding odd things in even odder (more odd?) places. I needed to be somewhere one weekend morning and we couldn't find the keys anywhere. We were both retracing our steps from the night before trying to figure out where we left them. After a half hour of destroying the house we found them in Claire's room in one of her many purse's. We laughed so hard, it was like she was getting ready to leave somewhere. She loves running off with the keys; we've also found them in the bottom drawer in the kitchen and in her toy bin. Claire loves to carry a purse around and shove random things in it. We'll find pieces to her stackable snowman, measuring spoons, craft pom-poms, bracelets, thread, etc. It's always fun to unpack her purse and see what she found. And just yesterday I found a single fruit snack piece in one of my hair-thing holders in a drawer in the bathroom, I'm telling you this girl is a ninja!

Claire has 3 new favorite activities and I've been trying now for 3 days to upload videos but they aren't working. :( Does anyone else have the problem uploading videos to blogger? I can upload them just fine to Facebook. Anyways, she has learned how to turn the knob and open doors. So we had to go buy those door knob covers but they're so hard for even us to use, hopefully she won't figure them out too. She also loves trying on shoes. Levi takes his off when he gets home and she will just stand there and step into and out of them. And her 3rd new trick; she starts by pulling out a dining room chair, then gets up on it and then stands on the table and dances. We're hoping this is not an indication of her future career. So the chairs are on the table now so she can't do that, because as cute as it is, it freaks us out so much!

And I'm trying to upload pics and that's not working either, ugh. Maybe I'll try tomorrow.