It's hard

Another one of Clara's favorite phrases, "It's hard." She'll pick something big up and say "it's hard" while she carries it. Walking up the stairs, "it's hard." Love it.

Don't know where she got it from but love it!

Puppyyyyyy.....!

Clara's most favorite "lovey." She has four of these type of security blankets: angel, lamb, and horsey, but Puppy is "the one." He goes everywhere and does everything with us. And he "talks" now too, more like a high pitched squeal is the way he talks. And to see Clara when she gets excited about Puppy...she gets all tense and out comes "Puppyyyyyy" in a high pitched screech. Then she puts him up to her face to give him a kiss or nuzzle noses.

2 1/2 years old (I've lost count on how many months :) )

What can I say about our little girl...not enough. She continues to talk up a storm, learning more words and we can understand them too. She is a sponge and will repeat anything she hears. And she is a sponge when it comes to any kind of learning. She knows the alphabet song plus about a dozen others, can count to 10 (and we are working on counting objects by pointing to each one and "assigning" each one a number), knows her colors, and is learning her shapes. She knows a lot. Each opportunity I am given, I try to teach her something. I am working on opposites which I think she is understanding big and small/little, happy and sad.

Her favorite phrases are: "what's that?," "Clara's (or insert name, object, animal, item here) happy" or "...sad," "I like....," and "I try it...."

She loves to look at the moon, she loves water, she loves to swing at the playground, she loves the show "Yo Gabba Gabba (where she learned the "I try it...)," she loves her "friends" and puppy, she loves books, she loves music, and she loves to sing. She is becoming more of a risk taker and is starting to jump off things: ladders, curbs, end of slides, etc. I am happy she is becoming more independent in that sense.

She is also very observant, today she exclaimed "It's windy outside." Which btw, she seems to be figuring out verb tenses: when to use "are" or "is" or "am."

I could go on and on. Am I bragging? All I am trying to do is write down everything so it will be recorded and I'll make this blog into a book that we can look at together down the road.