41 Weeks

Claire likes:

- Walking in her walker

- Being cuddled

- Looking in the mirror

- Other babies

- Doggies

- YELLING

- SQUEALING

- Biting

- Playing with her toys

- Walking (with our help)

- Costco and Target (well pretty much any store)

- Eating and drinking

- Her sippy cups and straw cups

Claire dislikes:

- Being told no

- Arms through the arm holes (unless you sing)

- If you won't let her feed herself

- Not being able to move

- Teething (I don't feel them, but I know they are coming)

- Nightmares (she had only 1 last week)

Claire facts & milestones:

* She knows what "no" means. And my goodness does it make her mad!

* Her favorite word is "Da-Da". I can ask her "Where's da-da?" And she looks for him.

* She can run in her walker

* She can play hide-and-seek while in her walker

* She stood for a good 1.5 seconds before she fell!

* She can stand up while holding onto her activity table

* Books interest her for 10 seconds

* She can scoot around on her butt

* Working on waving bye

* Working on high five

* She gives great raspberries

* Bed time is 8:00, then she wakes up between 5-6 to eat, then back to sleep till 6:30 (7:30 on weekends)

* She can roll onto her tummy, but hardly ever rolls back front to back

* Size 4 diapers

* Size 12-18 month clothes

* 2 teeth on top, 2 on bottom

* I freckle on her left leg (I actually noticed this awhile ago, but never mentioned it. She had no freckles when she was born, so she must have gotten it this Summer. Her perfect skin now shows a sign of the sun.)

* Feeding every 4 hours, sometimes longer if she eats a lot of human food

* 20lbs 5oz

* 2 feet 4inches tall

This is her squeal really loud face