Crazy Claire.

She is nuts.  Cute nuts.

Want to hear some things she's been saying lately?  They are pretty hilarious.

*  So, my friend, Natalie is in the car with Claire (waiting for me, surprise surprise) and Claire all of the sudden, looks over at a neighbor man or worker in the neighborhood and said:  "That's a handsome dude!"

*Also in Natalie's car, since I had gone back into the house so much for items I'd missed (again, surprise surprise)...Natalie taught her to say this to me when I returned:  "Mama, you're driving me NUTS!"  She enjoys saying it all the time now!  Awesome.

*  "Mama I hear the ambulance!  It takes the people to the doctors office because they're sick so they will feel better!"

*After going to the zoo and seeing the pathetic camel there, Auntie Jessica taught her a little about camels.  This is what she recites now every time we ask her where they live:  "Camels live in the hot desert."  How many humps they have:  "They have 2 humps."  And what their humps are for:  "Their humps are for storing water and drinking water."

*One day, Claire was playing with Jordan and started pulling out his leg hairs.  When he protested, she said, "Don't worry Daddy, you have more!"

*The other night, we were saying prayers and she repeated after me (Now, I don't know about your kids, but she kinda doesn't like to say prayers these days because it's the signal for "after this, you really do have to sleep" so generally now she doesn't repeat after me because she's protesting...but this time she did) when I said, "Please bless me to be happy."  But she said, "Please bless me to be grumpy!"  I couldn't help but laugh, which made her repeat everything I "blessed" from there on out with some sort of grumpy reference.  The little turkey.

*Claire is a funny sleeper.  She wakes up ALL THE TIME because she's been having pretty bad growing pains, or she will just wake up halfway due to a bad dream (about monkeys, elephants, princesses, bugs, flowers, etc.).  Anyway, so Jordan came home from work late the other night and went to kiss Claire "goodnight" while she was asleep.  Well, she woke up halfway, and I guess Jordan's hand was close to her face, and she took it and said softly, "Dada."  And he said, "Yes, sweetheart?"  "Your hands smell really yucky."
*The other day, Claire had been crying (over who knows what, since she's two!) and she got a dish towel and said matter-of-factly, wiping her eyes :  "Mama, I'm wiping my raindrops."

*Yesterday, Claire yelled over to me: "Look at me, Mama! I'm adorable!"  Pretty cute.  And would think she was full of herself, except she has no clue what "adorable" means actually.  I asked.

*So, we've been potty training, and Claire HAS TO have her purse full of all of her panties with her EVERYWHERE she goes.  She is obsessed.  More on this later in the potty-training saga post I will be doing soon.  Anyway, today, she was putting some panties in her purse panties in the purse, and said to them:  "Seriously, panties?  You need to go in there."

*So, she also has this awful habit of distracting Anya while she's nursing.  Today was no exception.  Claire is bugging Anya again, and so I threaten to go upstairs with Anya for some quiet nursing time, and have Claire stay downstairs watching Dora.  Claire says, "No Mama, I not fight with you anymore. I love you! Don't go upstairs!"  It was too cute.  I stayed.  And she didn't bug us.

And now for some interesting photos...

 *Claire is also obsessed (I know, I have a future OCD'er on my hands...don't remind me) with band-aids.  There are no "owies" underneath them.  But now they are all put up and she knows she only gets one if there's blood :)

 Yep, to the pool too.  And she freaks out when they start coming off.  Needless to say, I didn't need to put hardly any sunscreen on the left leg.

And yes, on her nose.  This one, though, was really painful to remove bc it was a "real" band-aid...the fabric good and stuck kind.  She cried, and had this red welt on her face for a few hours.  Again, no owie, but the band-aid actually ended up creating one!