Singing Again

Claire floored us the other day as she started to sing a new song. We asked her where she learned it and she said..."nursery". We had to get her singing on tape because of the facial expressions she pulls. We love listening to her sing.

More Claire Moments

We have some fun videos to watch of Claire. We hope you enjoy them.
This is a video of Claire repeating a Dora episode. She has an ability to memorize shows similar to Bryan. In this particular episode Swiper swipes instruments from Dora and her friends. She is quoting Swiper when he says "Too late. You'll never see your instruments now..." then he laughs. Watch Claire's expression when she laughs.


This video is of Claire singing yet again another song from Dora. It is a song about speaking Spanish and English. The words are "I speak Spanish and English too. I like them both. How about you?" Then notice her face and reaction when she realizes I'm taping her.

Birthday Boy!

Yesterday was Bryan's 31st birthday. So I am copying my sister's family and writing 31 things Claire and I love about him.
1- He is a great dad
2- He is a wonderful husband
3- I admire is art talent
4- He is hard working
5- I love the way he looks at Claire when she is asleep
6- I love how he plays with Claire
7- I love his testimony
8- I love that he honors his priesthood
9- He is dedicated
10- He loves his little girl
11- He tries his best at everything he does
12- He can build great things (i.e. entertainment center, Claire's toy box)
13- He's great at helping around the house
14- He's supportive
15- He is strong in the church
16- Claire loves to have him read to her
17- Claire loves to have him sing her a song
18- I love how quickly he can memorize songs and movie quotes
19- He is willing to make a fool of himself for Claire
20- He accepts me even during my silly moments
21- He is always willing to lend a hand
22- Dedicated to his church calling
23- Great at computers
24- Tries his best to help me see my family often
25- Willing to let me explore things I love to do
26- He's handsome
27- He helped build us a beautiful home
28- Claire loves to bowl with him
29- Claire loves going outside to play with him (it's too cold right now)
30- He is sensitive to my feelings
31- We love him because he loves us!!

Bowling Party

Every morning the last couple of days Claire has asked to go bowling. I guess she really liked it. We tried teaching her to play it on the wii. All she wanted to do was grab the ball...since it was on the TV she couldn't really do that. So we made a bowling lane for her in our basement. As you can see we just used empty pop bottles and a basket ball. She used a ramp when we were bowling in Utah so we improvised and used her slide as one. Here are two videos of Claire bowling.

It's happened to us!

Well the dreaded pink eye has hit our family. Claire got it a couple of weeks ago...we did the drops (which if you have never done them with a little kid...it is not a pleasant experience)...a few days went by and she got it again...(this happened while we were in Utah). Then we got different drops...those seem to work and have cleared up her pink eyes. I was so excited to get that whole problem over...

.......it wasn't over!!! I woke up this morning with my eye all gooey and pink....When will this end? I have done all that I could do to disinfect this bug from our house. I just hope that this will end soon.

Trip to Utah

It was so much fun to go to Utah and spend some time with my family. Claire loved spending time with her grandparents and her cousins. We just wish we lived closer. It was so much fun and we are glad we got to spend time with everyone.
We took Claire bowling while down in Utah. She absolutely loved it. She was so excited to wear her "special shoes".The smile she had when she went to bowl was so cute. She absolutely loved having her turn to bowl. It was so cute to see her grab her pink ball...push it...and see it roll down the lane and knock down the pins.


Claire woke up and found Grandpa doing some exercises. So she decided to sit down and do what he was doing. It was so cute I couldn't help but take a picture.

Another Claire and grandpa moment....Claire walked in and saw grandpa shaving. She wasn't quite sure of what he was doing. He put some shaving cream on her cheeks. She thought she was pretty special.

It's my birthday!!

Claire loved her birthday cake. At first she wasn't so sure what to do with it. She just would touch the frosting with her fingers and then lick her fingers. She needed to be shown how to just take a bite out of it. Here she is enjoying her cake.