We made it out to the park one evening for a quick trip. It doesn't take long before it's dark these days. Usually it takes us so long to make, eat, and clean-up supper, there isn't time for much else before Clara needs to take a bath and get to bed. She seemed to have a good time and Brynn had fun showing her the neat playground things.
Snuggles before bed time the other night.
Saturday morning screen time.
With some of the money Brynn saved up, she bought a candy bar kit thing on Saturday. Basically you melt chocolate into a squeeze bottle and squirt it into different molds, then add nuts, pretzels, peanut butter, candy, etc, to make your own candy bars. She thought it was great fun. Mom thought it was messy. :-)
"This is SO GOOD!"
Clara representin' Dragons.
All ready for supper with her bib on. Backwards.
It had still been pretty nice out lately, so Daddy and Brynn have been making it out for their daily bike ride. Poor Clara gets left behind, though. She kept licking the door and saying "ma-ma-ma-ma," which means "more," or what she says anytime she wants anything.
Climbing the stairs is serious business.
Had a little trouble with this couch on Saturday night.
She loves to talk on the phone.
Little moocher today. Clara appears all done with her own food and gets down out of her high chair, begs to be in my lap so she can try and steal what I'm eating. Again...'ma-ma-ma-ma.'
I thought it was a lot colder outside today than it actually was. So, we ditched the blanket about halfway through our walk.
I love to become one with the landscaping and kick, throw and eat rocks!
While Clara and I hung out at home today, Brynn and Daddy went to Granny Annie's birthday party celebration at Grandpa and Grandma's cabin in the woods. Brynn had such a fun time playing with cousins and riding Cookie, the horse. Dana said "too bad your parents don't have horses anymore; I couldn't get Brynn off this horse." Hint, hint, Grandpa and Grandma Dietz. ;-) (Thanks for the photos, Grandma Holly.)
Saying good-bye to Cookie.
The whole fam. (photo credit: Lisa)
These two were both beat when they made it home from the birthday party tonight.
Clara is such a little mother to her baby. Lately now she started wrapping her baby doll in her little blanket. She even lays out the blanket and folds up the sides over the top of the doll. It's just amazing to me what she picks up on. She seemed to be getting frustrated with her little blanket not being large enough for her baby, so I went and found an old receiving blanket that we had used for the girls for her. No good. I wrapped her baby in it to show her and she immediately unwrapped her and put her little Kleenex of a blankie back on her.
She also likes to make the baby clap her hands.
Last night she had even wrapped up a Barbie in her blanket and was rocking her. Ha.
I just love Brynnie working in the kitchen with that chef hat - ha! If she doesn't pursue a career in food - I'm sure it will be a big hobby for her. Loved seeing lil Clara today - she's so sweet!
Clara made a countdown chain to her 10th birthday. We baked a red velvet cake for her family party and chocolate cupcakes for her friend party. She looks so tall in some of these pics! Izabell's boyfriend, Neil, and Clara share the same birthday, so they all went out for lunch on their actual birthday on the 2nd. And then Neil had to get a tour of the Clara Express. Dana was in charge of getting balloons for the party and I sent him to Dollar Tree which apparently doesn't fill latex balloons, only Mylar. Dana "just knew" he had gotten the 'wrong' ones, and called me in a fit of rage over it and then followed up with this photo. haha. It all worked out just fine for Clara's ninja themed parties and I was able to pick up a few more black latex balloons from Cash Wise on my way home from work. Clara had already started partying at Prairie Joy's birthday party the night before, so I think she was short on sleep. I couldn't find her when I got home on F...
Brynn and I were very excited to embark on our mother-daughter trip to Chicago this week. We had gifted Brynn part of the trip as her sweet 16 birthday gift. We flew direct out of Fargo on Wednesday. We stayed at the Grand Plaza apartments on State Street in a VRBO rental. We loved it there! The building had an outdoor rooftop pool, library, gaming/movie room and gym on the 9th floor. This was us looking down from our 50th floor balcony. I refused to go to the edge of the balcony. Blech. (Photo credit: Brynn on this one!) Here are a few pics of inside the apartment that I hawked off of the VRBO listing. We got our things settled and ran next door to a Jewel Osco grocery for a few things and then got ready for dinner at River Roast along the Chicago River. It was very good and beautiful weather. I think Brynn said this was her favorite place that we ate at. Our waiter Jorge brought Brynn a carrot cake when we said we were celebrating Brynn's birthday on the trip. We came back to the...
S'mores on the deck... We got Brynn's team tennis pics back. They turned out great! I had to get a couple of pins and magnets. I should have taken a pic of Hubert and me spectating at one of her games last week as Hubert was sporting his pin. :-) We three girls played last week during a nice evening. Clara's class is doing an alphabet countdown to the last day of school. J was joke day. And Clara loves to share jokes with her teacher. She made her own joke book to bring. Cindy took Dad and me out to lunch for our birthdays last Thursday. It was such a fun time and Dad and I each got a cookie skillet for being the birthday kids! So delish. We went to Granite City. Always good! Dana and I went to Sartell, MN on Thursday night and arrived late. We stopped over at the after party of the groom's dinner for our friends getting married on Friday. I snagged their kitty for a snuggle. Roger and I were the photographers for the wedding which was beautiful. We had such a good tim...
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