She sings again

Claire loves to sing as many of you know. Here are a couple of clips of her new favorite song to hear and sing.

Our trip

We got the opportunity to visit my family.
Claire loved spending time with her grandparents. She would put a pillow on the floor and then say "grandma lay down...go night night." It is so cute to see how much she loves her grandparents. She also loved spending time with her cousins. We got to play rock band, go trunk-or-treating, and play the wii. She loved having her cousin Cole read to her. We are so glad we got to spend time with you guys. We just wish we could have spent time with all of the family. We love each and everyone of you.
It snowed while we were visiting and as you can tell Buddy loved to play in the snow.


Here are the pumpkins we carved this year. My mom, dad, Bryan and I carved the pumpkins with some help from Claire every now and then.


Claire was a little pumpkin for Halloween and here she is with her little cousin Janey (she was tinkerbell). Claire loved being with her.
We are glad we got to spend time with most of my family. We are also happy that we were able to help my parents with some of their remodeling job. We just hope we helped them out as much as they needed us to. Thanks for letting us invade your house...I know Claire loves being around each and everyone of you just was much as we do.

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!!