Guess the song

Claire is really into singing every where and all the time. We've tried to get it on video a couple of times, but with no success. We have finally gotten one on video. We are posting it and wondering who knows what song she is singing... Take a Guess! (sorry about her hair. It wasn't done so it kept getting in her face)

Hair Cut

Claire's hair has gotten really long. She doesn't like you to curl it and it looks all scraggly. We decided to get her hair cut. This is only her second hair cut. The last one you really can't say was a hair cut...we just trimmed her baby mullet. Here is the before photo.
Here are two during the cut pictures. She was surprisingly really good. I wasn't sure how still she could sit, but she did great!!
Now here is the after photo. We ended up cutting off over four inches of hair. Thanks Janelle for doing such a great job. Claire loves her Aunt Janelle and she looks so adorable. You're amazing!!!

Baseball

The other day Claire watched an episode of Dora that had Boots and Dora playing a game of baseball. Ever since then she has asked for a bat, ball and a mitt. Well she doesn't have a mitt, but today we got a bat and a ball. Here are a couple pictures of her playing ball. She is following in her cousins' footsteps as she pitches the ball.

She is learning quickly how to swing the bat and actually hit the ball.

Here she is posing for the camera. I'm not sure how good her form is, but she she loves it.

Here is a video of her actually swinging and hitting the ball. She loves it!!

The Stach

Bryan makes us smoothies for breakfast quite often. Claire loves to have them. She gets to excited. Here is a "smoothiestach" GOT SMOOTHIE???

Go Claire Go

The other day Claire kept making this odd sound. So I asked her what she was doing. She told me she was yodeling. It was so cute I taped it. I hope you understand it.

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.