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!
A couple of weekends ago Clara had a very busy, but fun Saturday with her friend Cora and her sister, Violet. The sisters' dad took them to the Breakfast on the Farm near Hawley (We had gone many years ago. Clara was so little, she didn't remember it.) They also stopped at the dirt track races on their way back into town and then Dana met up with them at MSUM so they could go to the oceanarium there. We had never been before, but it was on our "Moorhead List" of fun things to do in the 56560 zip code. So, check! Out on side-by-side rides any chance we get. We parked on Sunset Road, as we've dubbed it, to watch the sun go down. There is usually one or two other cars parked on this low maintenance road whenever we venture down there. Clara into her granny hobbies. :-) We attended the last of this year's graduation parties over the weekend. I went to one in town on Friday night and then Clara and I stopped at Karlie's party near Fergus Falls on our way to Z...
We were able to spend the Fourth at Tamarac again this year, with my sister and her family. We arrived just in time for Brynn to change into her tennis outfit for the boat parade float. Their theme was sports this year. Clara and Oliver caught candy from the dock. This was the first Fourth of July holiday spent at my sister and Chad's own cabin on the same lake that Chad's parents have their cabin. Clara brought my mom one of her favs, Tootsie Roll. We were also celebrating Mom's freedom this holiday...from working on the Fourth! For the past how many years, Mom has had to work the Fourth of July parade back home in Carrington. However, this year as she is preparing to retire and training in her replacement, she gave the parade reins to her successor. It was great to have both Mom and Dad spend the Fourth with all of us together. It was just like old times when we all gathered at Terry and Wanda's for lunch though. I made a new recipe for dessert: red, white and blue c...
Christmas gift wrapping shenanigans: Keeping Brynn company while she wraps all of our Christmas gifts. Brynn and I couldn't help but peek at the 150 Famous Poems book we gave to Clara. So many good ones. Getting into the holiday spirit at Courts Plus. Ha! Christmas eve brunch. Clara's gingerbread house contest strategy notes. Contestants were allowed 20 minutes to shop for their houses at Wal-mart. We left ourselves little time to get ready for the 3:00 Christmas eve service at our church. But, we made it and thankfully didn't have to sit in the overflow area in the chapel! It was a beautiful service. We had bit more time in between church and when we planned to leave for Tessa's, so I mixed up my eggnog and we got the car packed. Tessa's family hosted Christmas eve at their lake home. We had a great mix of people to play a game of Mind the Gap. Getting cookies ready for Santa. Clara got Dana and me up around 7:30 and we watched her open her stocking. I think Dana a...
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