Hooray! More Adam pictures from July and August! We love Adam for many reasons but I LOVE that he does such a great job of capturing the day-to-day toddler moments. Literally, each month he’ll take 400 photos of the kids in their various activities. Between the pictures and his daily naptime email updates, it keeps us very informed and involved in Clare’s activities even when we’re not with her all the time.
One theme for the summer has been “toddler” Clare becoming “kid” Clare. At the playground she’s able to pretty much play with all of the equipment (sometimes with some spotting) and has been enjoying the teeter-totter, big slides, bid-kid swings, monkey bars, etc. 
She’s pretending to put her foot over the edge of the climbing structure and saying “careful!” 
Clare’s first big-girl art projects – glue sticks with supplies. Glue sticking is serious business, as you can see.
I’ve decided this picture is called “underdog pease!”
Clare reading a book to her baby. We got her this baby a few weeks ago to practice being a big sister on, and he’s a very loved baby already. He’s read to, given his binky, rocked, put to sleep, wrapped in blankies, burped, and given bottles. He is, however, often naked since Clare likes to take off his pajamas. I guess I shouldn’t be to surprised. If you look closely you can see that Clare’s pajamas are actually on backwards. This isn’t an accident. Clare likes to take her pajamas off too, especially when she’s supposed to be sleeping. This is an issue because she doesn’t stop at her PJs and will take off her diaper and then pee in her crib. So far we are still smarter than our kid, so the solution has been putting Clare in backwards pajamas for naps and nighttime.
Sprinkler day! Clare loves the “sprinkle” – though sometimes she prefers to run in it, and sometimes she prefers to wave at it. 
Sand box time with our happy girl!