1 Year Old!

12 Months (posting almost a month late, argh)

To my beautiful, happy, daring, brilliant, hilarious daughter… you are one whole year old!  I truly can’t believe it. Everyone said our lives would change so much before having you, and it has, but I had no idea how much fuller you would make our lives and our little family. You make us laugh every single day, and give the very best hugs! The best part of my day is getting home from work and you give me your biggest grin and a tight hug around my neck.

A few things I’ll want to remember about you at this age:

• You are so so smart, even your daycare teachers tell us this (because I suppose I could be considered 
•  You love music and dancing at school, and have some great friends already with 2 little girls and a little boy in your class. When you get to school in the morning and see each other you smile and wave your hands.
•   Still the center of attention and will try to get smiles out of every single person you meet. At daycare the grandmas and grandpas come visit and you wave to them and blow kisses.
•   You love anything sweet, especially all kinds of Fruits. Blueberries are still the all-time favorite, but strawberries and grapes come a close second. 

11 months

Ok, I wrote this post a couple months ago and somehow never posted it. Oh well, adding it now so that I will finally have all 12 months ups!

Claire- 

• You are Running around like crazy and so active
• Becoming very opinionated…you now know how to point at things, and you will point at whatever you want (whether it’s a bottle, snack, toy, etc.) and yell until you get it.
•  You love to play in any sort of box… a cardboard box will entertain you for a good 20 minutes and
•   You might be a little OCD, haha… or maybe have just been watching me pick up all your toys day after day, and so one of your favorite activities is taking your toys and putting them back in their bins.
•  You have a Toy House with about 20 plastic “little people”. You will open the front door to the house and put one in the house, and then close the door, and then open it again and put another in, over and over until your house is full of all the people.
• We went sledding and you LOVED it. Such a dare devil. Afterwards the next day you were pointing outside at the snow since you wanted to sled again. You now pull your red sled around in our living room on the carpet and think it’s funny to put the stuffed monkey in the sled.