-Her baby and teddy and her favorite "guys" and she's almost always got them.
-She is starting to understand the concept of time and will say things like, "I got sick yesterday/last week/last month/last year." Rarely accurate, but always exploring the concept of past time.
-She loves to swing again (yay!) and requests a lot of swinging everytime we're outside. She always says, "BIG one!" -- she loves to go as high as she can! Many times when she's on the swing she'll say, "back and forth, back and forth." "forward, back, forward, back." or "near, far, near, far" as she swings.
-She loves being a sister and having a sister and is SUCH a great helper with her. She loves to hold her and teach her things, help change her diapers (we pretend on this part) and wipe her spit up. She always puts a blanket on Betty so she can stay, "nice and warm."
-Clara loves to take care of her little baby (doll) and keep her wrapped in a blanket, feed her a bottle and give her a bath in her very own kitchen sink.
-She loves to blow bubbles and has gotten quite good at it.
-She gets so excited to see extended family. She often talks about her cousins and knows who is who and who lives where. Sometimes out of nowhere she'll look at me with a concerned/sad face and say, "my cousins went home to Colorado." (She's referring to Amanda and her kids, who were here last)
-She calls Amanda "Aunt Manda." So cute!
-Clara LOVES nursery. When we drop her off, she RUNS in and gives the nearest nursery leader a huge hug. She has a small group of little friends in there right now, so she gets to play with the leaders a ton too. She loves them all.
-She loves to play in laundry baskets. One day she was putting all of her stuffed animals (her "guys") in and tucking them all in, and then she climbed in and snuggled with them. It was naptime and she protested, saying she wanted to sleep in her "spacket" so I put her in the crib... in her basket. She fell right asleep and slept the whole time!
-We've been working on her saying, "I hold you." It has turned into "I hold me." and "I need me." Haha. At least I know what she means.
-She's getting really good at going potty and has even gone on the big potty a few times.
-She loves trains, like her daddy and lately when we see the trains just north of downtown (when driving to my parents house) she'll say, "I ride that potty train." It cracks me up!
-She gives the cutest little narratives from the back seat while we're driving somewhere. She always notices helicopters and airplanes, snow on the mountains, birds, trains, big trucks, etc.
-Recently she was singing "I Am a Child of God" and at the end morphed the lyrics into "teach me all that I must do, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen." I was recording it and showed it to so many people (with her around) that she thought it was a cute and clever thing to do and now does it intentionally and laughs. Oops. We're trying to teach that it's a reverent phrase...
-We have had Early Intervention child development specialists come to evaluate Betty and help her and Clara is usually around. They are always astounded at the breadth of her "expressive language." It's true, she is quite a talker! I honestly don't feel like there's anything she cannot communicate or express right now.
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