Claire's 3rd Spring

• we started the season with amazing warm weather! She's loving the water table! She calls it the "wawa beetle". 
• A new favorite song is "head, shoulders, knees and toes".
• Has started filling in some letters while I sing the ABC's.
• More words she's now saying correctly: book, milk, Brody 
• The queen of piddling.
• She has really impressed me with how she's been acting towards babies and younger kids. It's making me so excited to see her as a big sister!
• She has a lisp!
• Her new favorite responses are "nope" and "yep".
• Very very proud of the progress she has made with the potty! She's starting to tell us more when she needs to go, and still very few accidents! 
• Had the sweetest night rocking Claire on 3/27. She lifted my shirt looking for the baby and said "hi Abby, it's me, durr (Claire)" and then she told "I love you a much" and kissed me probably 15 times. But then she had the worst night  And then slept until I woke her up at 9:20!!! 
• Had her first dentist visit. She loved the office, but started to flip out when we asked her to lay back. She didn't love having someone look in her mouth, but the dentist was able to count her teeth, make sure they were cavity free, and put fluoride on them. In and out within 30 minutes. 
• She played at the chick fil a play area for the first time. 
• She likes to pretend to be in distress and yell "help me".
• She went to spend a long weekend with meme and poppi I took it a lot harder than she did. Was SO SWEET when we met up to bring her home. She kept saying "hi mommy" "hi daddy" and hugging and kissing us.
• While with Meme and Poppi, she ran a high fever. We thought possibly a bladder infection, but she wasn't showing any symptoms.
• She's just been "off" for a little while. Hasn't slept through the night since returning from Meme and Poppi's, hasn't eaten normally or pooped as much, did not sleep well (at all) the weekend that Lolly and Papa were here. No fever, but a splotchy rash on her chest and back. 
• Very into singing songs with LOTS of personality! 
• Has started making toys talk to each other. 
• She counted to 10!!!!! 
• She sang the whole ABC song on her own!!! 
• Very into watching movies and acting the out/quoting as she watches. She also likes to quote books while being read to and singing the last words in lines of songs. 
• Her "favorite" toys are still tiny figurines. She has the Mickey Mouse characters and the princesses, and now she has little Moana characters and a troll, Poppy. She doesn't have to have them all the time, but definitely spends more time with these types of things than any other toy. Other favorites: bubbles, water table, the slide, play doh, Easter eggs and paint. 
• The closer we get to baby sister's due date, the clingier she's getting (not sure if it's a product of me smothering her during her last few days as an only child). 
• She's liking dinosaurs. 
• She only eats pizza upside down (as in toppings facing down). 
• Not as interested in electronics lately. <-- this changed very quickly after sister came home. 
• Seriously changes every day. Has some days where her vocabulary takes off, and then the next day she's back to jibberish and her "special word". (A-vee-uh)
• We are in her last few days as our one and only baby girl. Trying to cherish every second! 
• Her new response to everything is "yes" said /yeth/ and it's just the cutest. 
• A few things we did during her last several weekends as the only child: (we wanted to go to the gentry zoo but it rained every day we planned to go), special Saturday breakfasts, strawberry picking, swimming, riding "rides" at the mall. 
• She was OBSESSED with baby Kent when they came to see us! 
• We had baby sister! She was nervous and uninterested when she first met her. It was a busy night, bedtime, she just wanted to see mom and dad and Abigail was still dirty while I was still covered in cords. She brought us donuts the next morning with Lolly and Papa and busted in the door talking about bringing donuts to Abby! The grandparents said that she would excitedly say "Abby's coming home" throughout the day. She touches her head and likes for her to be in the room. She loves to make sure she has things, and wants to hold her all the time. She's very interested in how Abigail eats from mama's boobies. She always wants to give her the paci. She will just look at her and say "hiiii" in the sweetest voice over and over. She asks "Durr hold baby Abigail /happygirl/" all the time. She tells me "mama get her" when she's crying. 
• Started having accidents in her pants (and wouldn't say anything) - pee and poop.
• Current favorite words (for us to hear) weed eater /weeyaweeyer/, dinosaurs /hisaurs/, bandaid /bandem/, doc mcstuffins /doc histussins/, octopus /opicus/, heart of tafiti /harpiti/. Current favorite words (for her) "I don't like (hike) it", "durr (Claire) goes" or "durr see" and "go away to me".
• More into princesses: pretending to be one, dresses, shoes and dancing. 
• Threw up, not sure why
• We went to Benton and Lake Degray for Memorial Day. She did so well visiting and playing with family, playing with friends and swimming in the lake/riding the boat! 
• Starting to get batter at taking off and pulling her clothes back on (including shoes)
• Did a week of swimming lessons
• She prayed with Andrew The one part was "thank you daddy come home from work to play with durr". 
• New phrases: "I have an idea, a burger fries idea", "I show you suppin", "don't do that, ok? Listen to me, no, right now." (she says that all together), "I dood it"
• Pretty obsessed with hunting Easter eggs
• Favorite songs: Moana songs (how far I'll go & you're welcome), Jesus song (forever - Kari jobe), branch's song (true colors and sound of silence), 5 little monkeys 
• She makes this horrible whine/grunt/yell sound when she doesn't get her way 
• Speaking skills took off while we were at my parents for several days
• LOVES to hold, talk to and play with Abigail