I’ve noticed that my blog posts have become more perfunctory and not as well-written. Sorry. I blame the sleep deprivation and general busy-ness of two kids. Hopefully my story telling will improve in the next few months – either that or I’m going to have to start taking even cuter pictures to keep this blog interesting 🙂
- Her absolute favorite food right now is bread. But not just any bread, toast with peanut butter and jelly. She could literally eat this three times a day (and often requests it for every meal). I limit it to once a day but she thinks that she has to eat a toasted peanut butter sandwich every day.
The other day we had a friend baby-sitting for Clare and when they had gas Clare asked if they had “frogs in their pants. The frogs are barking!”
- She seems to say the funniest things in the car. On the way home from the airport she, she out of the blue, rapturously declared “I love my vitamins!” The other day in the car she started a stream of consciousness chatter that included “I love hummingbirds. I’m a hummingClare!”
- She is a very sweet big sister to Sam but she’s desperate for him to play with her. The other day she asked me “can I take Sam into my room? We want to play.” I often find her laying next to him in his little baby gym or on my blanket, batting at his toys along with him, trying her best to make his baby “play” a two person activity.
A not-so-cute development is that she sometimes get into serious contrary phases where she says “no” to EVERYTHING. Even if it’s something that she wants, her first impulse will be negative. I can walk into her room and say “Clare, it’s time for breakfast. Let’s go get some oatmeal.” Her response will be “No! I don’t like breakfast. I won’t get oatmeal!” Then a minute later she’ll be in the kitchen climbing into her chair for oatmeal. One night I heard her say “No! I won’t do that!” while she was sleeping. She was literally being contrary in her sleep.
