Recent Claireisms

Claire is just too funny.

She is just getting SO BIG!! I can't believe how much she's grown and how much she says. It's so fun.

Here are some things she's doing and/or saying right now:

She "sings" (in quotes, bc she's TOTALLY off-key/tone deaf at this point) the following songs: Twinkle twinkle, Reverently, Quietly, and Lullaby and Goodnight. It's so funny bc sometimes she'll just break out into song.

Sometimes says "The End" at the end of a prayer. The other night she also said, "How 'bout prayers?" to me when we were finishing up the "bedtime routine."

She can say a whole prayer by herself. I'll start the prayer out and she'll repeat everything I say, and then I'll say "Thank thee for....what else?" and then Claire will say "Mama!" "Dada!" "Grandma," "Jesus!" and on and on.... it's so cute. She gets really into it.

I love it when she says "I love you...soooo much!" Or just a simple, "I love you, Mama." It's the sweetest thing-melts my heart!

Claire, when she wants things, will say "I neeeeeeeed it!" or "Mines!!!!!" I hate that word. I thinks he puts the 's' on the end because we'll say, "No, Claire, it's Mommy's."

Speaking of that. Let's keep it real here. She throws tantrums ALL THE TIME. I swear she's like a mental patient. Some days she throws tantrums 20 times, no joke. Other days, not as many, but she is still a terrible 2. :) AH!!!! I now know why parents get gray hairs so easily... but I guess they say it's worse when they're teenagers. Oh boy.

Recently, when told why Daddy works (to make money), and asked what do we spend money on, she said "COSTCO!" It was hilarious. She has also, when asked where we get ice cream, said Costco. Funny that we don't get ice cream there that often. She needs to say "Polish Dogs" next time lol.

Um, she STILL eats Crayons. STILL. Gross. I find Crayon pieces in her diaper too--digested. Yeah, I know you wanted to know that... It's like multicolored confetti in there.

Claire likes telling me "hold 2 babies" when I am already holding Anya and she wants to be picked up too. I said it like one time, and it's stuck in her mind!

Check this out...when we went to Park City for the weekend because Jordan's brother, Ben, came into town:

Claire's most recent swearing episode derives from her attempt to say: "water park." It sounds like "What the......" :) Jordan really likes to ask her to say "water park."

We usually try to teach the correct terms for the male and female anatomy to Claire (except we still say "front bum" to her for the "V" word, lol...just because her cousin, Sydney said it like that and we think it's hilarious) Anyway, Jordan recently taught her the name for the male anatomy. She calls it a "peanut" now. Jordan recently corrected her, and she started singing "not a peanut, not a peanut, not a peanut..."

Claire now nods her head instead of saying 'yes.' Mainly when she's busy watching TV. What a little couch potato!

Claire now actually says "yes" sometimes instead of just repeating what you just asked her! It's so exciting! Sometimes people will say, "um, she just repeated that, does that mean she wants it?" I say, "You'll KNOW IT if she doesn't want it...she has never had a problem with saying 'no' :)"

Claire now enjoys Barbies (Bobbies). She likes to put shoes on them mainly. That's tough since finding an actual pair is near impossible. Grandma Taylor has a few Barbies and she really likes to play with them, and now thinks that any pretty animated character, drawing of a princess, or pretty doll is a Barbie.

Which is why, when we went to see "Tangled," Claire called it the "Flying Barbie" movie.

Claire also loves going "potty." She totally doesn't get the concept of waiting to go in the potty instead of her diaper, but the other day she went NUMERO 2 in the potty. I was very proud :) Jordan and I then got her some "potty treats" for that occasion. She now asks for potty treats all the time. We say, "first you have to go poop in the potty, and you can have potty treats." She responds with "Want potty treats!" She doesn't get it.

Claire likes to play with markers. Don't worry, she only plays with the SUPER WASHABLE...especially since she'll be sitting in her high chair...the paper won't last long...pretty soon that's dumped onto the floor....she still has markers...still coloring...still coloring...and then it's bath time!

That is a mischievous grin if I ever saw one. Btw. looks JUST LIKE Kaylin to me in this pic--Bec?

Never happier than when she has marker all over her body. Check out her shirt though--totally clean! Go figure.

So here's a 3 minute video of her latest antics: