Happy Happy Birthday Claire Bear Dear!

Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast

baking her mickey mouse cake.... but honestly I just wanted to use my new bundt cake pan I got for Christmas!

At her party. She had her cousin Grace and Aunt and Uncle come along with Grandma and Grandpa. Her favorite people ;)

Claire turned 3 today! Wow! 3 whole years with our precious Claire. Claire has grown up SO much this past year. Her speech has gone from 0-5 words to full out sentences and a huge vocabulary. She has worked so hard on learning to speak. Claire is a great sister. She gives both her "sissys" kisses and hugs daily. She also shares VERY well. She is very giving. She has grown up physically a lot too. Her hair has started to really come in. She can now wear a pony tail! She is orderly and likes to organize her toys. Too bad she only puts them in order while she is playing... we are still working on putting the toys away! She is very sweet and loves to snuggle. She has really come out of her shell this past year too. She is no longer very shy. She will play with most anyone and adapts well to new situations. We love you Claire!

We have been busy...

spreading Christmas cheer... neighbor gifts this year

receiving secret elf gifts on our door step! The girls were SO excited and were yelling "THANK YOU SECRET ELFS!" out the door

wathcing movies on moms new smart phone! I got it for free, and it actually saves us money on our monthly phone bill... sweet! The only problem is that now that I have access to e-mail, FB, and blog reading on my phone I don't come down to the big computer to post blogs.... I will have to do better!

changing baby buns. This was the craziest blow out I had seen in awhile...

leaving out cookies and carrots for santa and the reindeer. Liv wrote a note to Santa telling him where the potty was just in case he needed one! She even drew a picture of the toilet!

Christmas morning. Claire has a LOT of new babies and is in LOVE with them! She got one a few weeks ago when she went shopping at the store and used her binkies to pay for a new baby. She was having lots of anxiety about her birthday and cutting binkies on her b-day. So she decided she would rather use her binkies to buy a new baby doll. She has done great! We have been binky free for 3 weeks now! As for the other babies- she got "lala lucy" from Santa and the other baby from the secret elf.

Dear Santa...

She has actually changed her mind about what she wants. Lucky for us, it's $25 cheaper then that Gogo Walk'n' pup ;) The picture she drew is of Santa and his reindeer flying over houses.

Library Card

Olivia got her first Library card. She is so proud!

I love 5 year olds

Olivia says the funnies things, and she is learning how to read and write, and it's so so cute! I love reading random things she has tried to write. She also says and does the cutest things. Just this morning here are some of the things she said:

I was telling her that only a few years ago Claire was the baby and she was Claires age. She says "So, where was Emma?" I told her she was in heaven waiting to come down. She replies "Oh, I bet she was doing tummy time in the clouds watching us!" It made me laugh, thinking of Emma lying in a cloud doing tummy time!

We have a heater in Emma's room. It has a little red light on it. Olivia asks "What is that little red light?" I told her it meant the heater was plugged in. She sighs with relief and says "Oh, I thought it was an eye-watcher!" She thinks that things are watching her, or maybe recording her and calls them "eye-watchers" haha, she is just like me! I always think I'm being watched in secret!

This morning the girls were standing on their chairs singing "You better watch out, you better not cry.... santa clause is coming to town!" They thought if they sang as loud as possible that santa would come in his sleigh. Emma loved it and kept squealing with them. It was so cute.

These were things that just went on in the past few hours. I should be better about writing them down. I love my girls. They are so fun!

The tree is up

We are all decorated for Christmas! Lights are up, the tree is up. YAY! It all looks beautiful! On a side note... my blog is so boring lately. Sorry. I'll try to think of something funner to post about. Even I don't really want to look at my own blog. HA!