My baby girl is 2, I can hardly believe it! It really seems like I just brought her home from the hospital...except that I am 8 months pregnant with another baby. I will be doing it all over again soon, so crazy! I had a ton of pictures on my phone that I wanted to upload so excuse the photo dump but they were all too cute not to remember. Claire is sick with a fever so we are home from church together. I figured this was a good way to spend my time documenting about our family, right? Things have been pretty busy around here with school almost out and traveling, ironman races, and 3 kids, we usually are doing something. Last week Claire and I got the stomach flu so we were bed ridden for a day or two. She fell asleep in my bed watching Dora (her favorite). Still sucking her thumb and grabbing her hair, I love it.
We both got better right before her birthday and I managed to even get her a personalized Dora birthday cake. We asked her what cake she wanted for her birthday and with no hesistation it was Dora. She then kept adding characters that she wanted on top so we got lucky that Macey's had some characters that came with the cake. It seems that the homemade cakes might be over for us. It's just too much work! She loved this cake and saved James and I both some sanity!
Her bday was on Monday so we celebrated at Grammy's house on Sunday with all of her cousins. I forgot my camera so my phone was the only pictures I got. Not great, but you get the point.
She even blew out her own candles! Everyone was pretty impressed. None of my other kids have been able to do that...maybe we are odd or don't have very strong lungs!
Grammy and Grandad Tenney got her a cute little Dora outfit and Dora sunglasses. She loves glasses or "gwa-gwes" as she calls them.
That night getting ready for bed after a bath she and James were at the top of the stairs just hanging out. She is such a Daddy's girl right now and always wants to know where James is. I love it and I know James loves it even more.
On Monday, her actual birthday I had the genius idea of going to the Thanksgiving Point animal farm. Claire is obsessed with animals (probably my biggest animal lover) and we haven't taken her there yet. It was the perfect choice! She got a pony ride, wagon ride, and got to see all the cute new baby horses and cows. She was honestly giggling the entire time we were there. It was the cutest thing ever. I know this is blurry but she got to pet a cute, new baby horse.
I tried countless times to get a picture of all 3 kids at once but Claire was way too excited to see everything so we only ended up with the 2 boys. They are so cute.
Claire, James and Carter enjoying the wagon ride.
Stuck in jail! Carter was trying to keep a straight face.
Another attempt to get all 3 kids in the same picture. I managed to get Claire's head as she ran away. Silly girl! Carter brought his own money to buy Claire a birthday present at the farm where they have a little toy area that they sell stuff. He had many extravagent ideas, but we finally had him settle on a little plastic pig and a peacock feather. She has been tickling us with the feather ever since!
Here's her Dora outfit from Grammy. This is also her new face when I tell her to smile. She closes her eyes and scrunches up her nose.
Yesterday James was working on Preston learning how to ride a bike. Claire was trying to follow them so James told Carter to bring her back. I was on the porch watching the whole thing. Carter is so cute and loving with his sister, it melts my heart. He really is a protective big brother and always is trying to help her or play with her.
He then bent down to give her a kiss. SO darling!! I love their relationship.
I love this age! Claire is talking away and saying little sentences. She is still so tiny but has a ton of hair that people comment on all the time! Some other little things that she is doing at this age:
*She has to sleep with about 25 stuffed animals in her bed. She knows them all and has us go through each one before we lay her down each night. She then has to have her Peppa Pig blanket on top of her. It's quite the process!
*She could eat her weight in chicken nuggets. I have never seen a kid eat as many as she can! She also loves ketchup or "bee-cha" as she calls it. After taking a bite she always says "Mmmm gooo(good)".
*She loves Eeyore and Winnie the Pooh. She calls Eeyore on her pretend phone all the time to say hello. She also loves me to sing the Winnie the Pooh song to her when I change her diaper.
*I love how she pushes her hair out of her face. It makes me laugh, I don't know why.
*She loves the shower instead of the bath now. When we try to get her out, she lays on the shower floor and will flail around.
*She knows she can get anything she wants from Daddy so she will always go to him first. M&ms, not going to bed, Dora cereal at the store, you name it, he has gotten it for her!
*Coloring is her favorite and she gets pretty intense sometimes concentrating. Mainly it is tiny little circles over and over. She just got an easel with a white board for her birthday from her grandparents in England and she has been using it non stop. We have outlawed markers around here since she loves to color on walls, so she is in heaven with the dry erase ones that she gets to use for the white board.
*How she calls Preston, Presty. We have never called him that, she just started using it and it is their little thing.
*When we went to St. George for the ironman, we took the kids swimming. She loved it and every time we were by the pool she would yell WATER! over and over. I'm excited for the summer.
I love that little girl so much. Having a girl has been so much different than a boy. She is girly but also will pretend to be a dinosaur and find some kind of pretend gun out of something. Her brothers love it! So grateful she came to our family. I couldn't imagine life without her!
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