Halloween Party

This past weekend Bryan's cousins hosted their annual Halloween Party. We had to go of course...we love spending time with them. Claire was a pumpkin. Bryan was a young Donald Trump (He even mastered his eye squint and his pushed out lips). I was a gangsta...aka a "wigger" according to Bryan. (Thanks to my nephew I had some great bling bling and a grill to wear.) Bryan and I tied for the most original costume prize. We had a great time.

Early Christmas

Claire got this as an early Christmas present...For those of you who don't know Claire loves to slide. Well in this video you can see the electronic basketball hoop in the back ground...well she would straddle the slanted bar and slide down. We decided to get her a real slide since it was obvious she loved to slide. Well now Claire says..."Thanks Grandma Lois...I love it!!"

Duck Races

This past weekend we went to the duck races. Claire loved it the entire time she called it the "lucky duckies". She still talks about going to see the "lucky duckies". Don told us that there were about 45 thousand ducks dropped into the water. I thought it was pretty cool to see. So I thought I'd share it with all of you.

Curls

Poor Claire she has hair similar to her mom. It won't hold curls no matter what we try. If you have suggestions...we'd love them. As you can tell we have tried hot curlers. The curls make her look so grown up and oh so cute (although she's my kid so she is always...almost always cute to me). Here is one of her hair after the curlers have been taken out. Here is the problem....her hair only stays curled for about ten minutes. I have used hairspray and that makes it last for maybe fifteen minutes...Any suggestions?

Another First for Claire

Today Claire experienced another first in her life. It was a very warm day so I took Claire outside to play in her sprinkler. Claire loves to run around and look at all the things she can see. Well she found some ants, spiders, a praying mantis and a bumble bee. Well I thought the bumble bee was dead so it couldn't hurt her. I looked away for a second and when I looked back she was holding the bumble bee. She quickly dropped it and said "bee hurt me". I looked and sure enough that little bumble bee had stung Claire's finger. For about an hour after it happened she kept looking at me and saying "bee hurt me." Poor little girl had to learn one of life's lessons...bumble bees are NOT fun to hold!!

Peggy's Visit

Recently Aunt Peggy came to visit us. It was great to have her come and visit. We love people come to visit us. Claire loved to have Aunt Peggy visiting her. She had so much fun being with Peggy. In fact after Peggy left she kept going to the stairs and saying "where Peggy go."

Claire showed Aunt Peggy how much she likes to go down slides at the park.

We took Claire to feed the ducks. It was a lot of fun, but it is a bit scary sometimes...it is like the ducks attack you for the bread you brought.

Porcupine Bay

Well this Summer has been such a busy one. We have had so much fun. We had our annual trip to Porcupine Bay a few weeks ago. I was really worried how Claire would be since we camp so close to water I was worried how she would be. My worries were for nothing...she was so cute. It was a great week. I'm so happy with how she did. Here are some of the pictures from the week. Hope you all enjoy them.

Well this first pictures is of one of the bats that seemed to fall in love each night with the inside of one of the wakeboarding boots. For three different nights bats seemed to make the boot their home. The first time we found them...the boot had about 15 bats living in it and then other two times there were at least three bats in the boot. This year was the year of the bats I guess!!


Claire loved to help cook. She thought that by using the giant spoons and moving the dirt around that she was somehow helping cook.
We took Claire on her first tube ride behind the boat, but it didn't exactly happen like we had hoped. She cried almost the entire time, but after that all she kept saying was "Tube Claire Ride." She loved it.
We brought this new tube called the "see saw". It was a bit of a work out to do it, but a lot of fun also.

Claire would put the tubes on over her head...all of them. Than she would say "hula hula hula." She thought she was hula hooping.

Claire loved to be on the boat. Even in her prayers she wold pray for the boat. It is cute how much she loves being on that boat.

We had fun swimming together as a family. Claire wasn't so sure of swimming in a lake. She is used to swimming pools.

Claire just loved to hold the flag for anyone wakeboarding or riding the tubes.