Claire Winter 17-18

Claire: Winter ‘17-‘18

• she learned to do a flip/roll on her own
• She’s so good at using manners except when she accidentally hurts someone. She refuses to say sorry. 
• She’s picking up on so many funny phrases and expressions. My current favorite is the “soft smile” and her wink. 
• At bedtime she loves to ask “what’s your favorite part today?”
• “Too-ie” - toy 
• She’s really loving dress up and movies right now. 
• “Gleed-up” = giddy up
• I just love her lisp. Especially when she’s in the middle of playing and she says “what is this?!” 
• She’s going through another rough patch going to bed. Her most recent excuse was that she needed to go to the hospital to hear her heartbeat in her finger. 
• Claire is amazing directionally. She can tell us which way we should go to get places, and recognizes buildings that we’ve only been to a handful of times. 
• She’s into running and hiding when she’s doing things she shouldn’t (like sneaking and eating candy, watching the phone without asking, putting on makeup...) or when she gets in trouble. 
• We went swimming in a hotel pool with the McClain girls and Claire did an amazing job swimming under water. 
• Favorite phrase: “what is this?” “Why you say no to me? That’s not very nice!”
• Bed time routine is so long, and usually I try and rush through it, but when I just enjoy it, it’s the MOST FUN time and the time when she’s most willing to learn new things!
• She loves to sit on the potty and watch her iPad. She will tell us “I need 5 more poopoos then I get up.”
• Every night we have to line up all of her princess barbies on her princess pillow. 
• She decided to dry herself off and brush her own teeth and hair after bath one night. 
• Favorite foods are still Mexican foods: taco soup, quesadilla, and blee-toes (burritos). 
• When she gets sad and cries she’s started saying “that really hurt my heart”.
• When playing with Abigail, she’s said “here you go sweetheart” “that’s right darling”. 
• Learned to wink 
• Anytime I made her turn something off or skip something, she says “hey, that was my favorite”
• “Oh, we almost-agot...” /almost forgot/, “this is imposstible!”
• When she wants to do something we’ve done before she says “like we did last week” and if she wants to do something new she will say “can we do that sometimes?”
• Got pretty sick mid-February. A virus in the chest (basically bronchiolitis). Ran a low fever for several days, was acting almost delirious, horrible cough. Used the inhaler and got amoxicillin to prevent an infection. 
• The ATTITUDE!!!! 
• Her big thing is assigning family members different characters of her favorite movies. 
• “Hey what’d I just say?!” “You never can be (or) you never can do this again” “that’s all my fault”, “remember when we do that last week” - even if it was just earlier than morning...
• Recognizes letters A, C, M, D, K and J and numbers 1-5.