Miscellaneous

Grandma and Grandpa K sent us some valentines last month. Here's a picture of Summer filling them out. They were the Fun Dip sugar candy packets. Most of them didn't make it to their destinations. Sorry guys.

Just a cute picture of Claire.

A few weeks ago, we got snowed in. Rhett's work called and canceled for the day, and Gonzaga shut down too. That evening, a bunch of us went sledding. It lasted about fifteen minutes. It was sooooo cold! Claire and I actually stayed home, but Summer and Dad had a good time.

Summer
Summer is really starting to sing a lot. She sings quite often throughout the day. Sometimes she'll sing common children songs, other times she'll just make up her own words and music. One of her favorite songs to sing is "I know you onnnnnne daaaaaay." (The Sleeping Beauty song, "I know you. I walked with you once upon a dream," learned from Dad.)

"This yucky thing (pronounced "sing") is . . . uh . . . yucky."

"Uh oh! The big dinosaurs are coming to get us! The big dinosaurs are coming to the door! The other dinosaurs are going to save us. The big dinosaurs are not going to eat Claire. The big dinosaurs are not going to eat my head. The big dinosaurs are not going to eat your head, Mom." (And then randomly throughout the day, she'd run into her room, or come running out of her room--"The dinosaurs are coming!")

At a restaurant, while Rhett was asking for the check, Summer stood up and said, "Hey girl, I want more peaches (mandarin oranges)."

Common Sayings:
"That is soooooo cute."
"That is sooooooo fun."
"That is sooooooo funny."
"It's really (reary) scary."
"That sounds good."

Claire
New Words:
"eh-koo" Thank you
"ook" Look
"Nowm" Down
"Maaaaaaaaa" (sounds like a bleating lamb) Mom
"mama" More
"Daddy"
"Joo" Juice
"ookie" Cookie
"guck" Stuck
"idee" Hiding (Anytime I ask her where anything is, she says, "idee, idee!"

Claire can also say "Potty." We discovered this a few weeks ago after Summer had done her business in the bathroom, Claire said, "Potty. Potty." So I put her on the toilet too, and she went. It happened twice that day, and almost two times every day for the next week. Since then, we've had quite a few false alarms, but we are proud of Claire. She is such a big girl!

We've also discovered that she is highly sensitive to cinnamon. Any time she eats it and gets a little on her face, her skin welts up almost immediately. The problem is, she really likes cinnamon. Guess we'll just have to save those cinnamon bears and hot tamales for mom . . . hehehe.

For Noah

A few weeks ago, Rhett and I went to a Gonzaga game (we got the tickets for suuuper cheap--and they were great seats!). Well, I don't know where everyone got these little white hand towels, but every once and a while, whether cued by the band or something else, everyone would stand up and twirl the towels around. Every single time, I thought of how much Noah would have loved to have seen it!

If only . . .

If only we had a boy and I could crochet . . .
Image Source: from etsy found here.

I don't know if it's legal to post this, even though I added the source cite. Rhett's gone to Moscow to take a test, so we'll find out when he gets back.

Claire's Birthday Movie and Our Daily Activity

Our sweet little friend Lyla had her one year birthday party a few weeks ago, and Rachel, her mom, had put together a little movie of pictures from Lyla's first year. We watched it, and I got to thinking how I never posted this. So here it is--

How do you compact a whole first year of life into two or three three-minute songs? You really can't. That's why this is THIRTEEN minutes long. But it's full of cute clips and good music. If you want to actually read the credits (Claire's one year stats), you might have to pause it as they scroll. I couldn't figure out how to get them to slow down. (You'll notice a jump at one point where Claire has no hair and then she has a ton. We lost some of our clips and pictures when our hard drive crashed.)


Lately, Summer just wants to put her dresses on and dance around. She's talked Claire into doing the same thing. Here's a clip of them "dancing" (running in circles) with their babies. (When Claire says "Baba," it means baby.)

And since Claire needed another baby, we pacified her with the panda.