Claire's Latest

The other day Claire said something we've never heard her say before. It made us both laugh. I asked Bryan where she learned it...He then reminded me I say it often. I had her tell my brother it and he laughed too. So here it is for all you to enjoy...hope you can understand her the best video of her saying it was with her chewing on a toy.

Porcupine Bay

As many of you know we go to Porcupine Bay each year with Bryan's family and friends. This past week was that week. We had a great time. Here are but a few of the pictures that were taken. I say a few pictures because after we compiled everyone's pictures there were over 600 taken.
Claire loved being in the water. She knows her life jacket will keep her safe. One of her favorite things to do was to sit on the back of the boat and kick.
We went to a waterfall one day. We've gone to see it before, but this year we hiked (walked) to it and the girls all got in and swam by the waterfall. It was so cold it took your breath away as you tried to swim. It felt like you were swimming in ice...
There was one day we docked at a beach and played. Claire loved building sand castles with Bryan. The girls had fun with the clay found at the beach. We decided to make that beach our own personal spa...Don't we look beautiful?
Of course we spent a lot of time this week on the boat having a good time. We did some wake boarding, but mostly we spent time on the tubes. Bryan of course was amazing on the wake board...jumping wake to wake. I however couldn't even get up this year. I'm going to blame it on tubing so much that my arms were to sore to grip onto the rope...
I am however quite proud of myself for being so brave while tubing. I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to tubing and other water activities. I'm not sure why...I'm not afraid of water. Here is my bravery caught in action.
Even Claire was brave when it came to the tubes. She rode on them a couple of times. She isn't quite sure she wants to ride, but she seems to like them once she is on them. I'm proud of her. I think she is braver than her mommy.

Bribery

We are all about using toys as motivation for Claire to want to go potty on the toilet. (Yes bribery works). She is doing well for the most part. We have more days that are accident free than we do days with accidents in a month. We are so proud of her. She truly is doing so well. This last prize she earned was a barbie kite. Look how happy she is.

Here is a little video of her with her kite. We are trying to teach her how to run with it to get the kite to fly.