"Mommy, can you do me a favorite?"

That's a question Claudia asked me the other night during her tubby. She wanted me to sing a song. That was the "favorite".

She & I played hooky a couple Fridays ago. One of our crafts was fingerpainting. Claudia was able to soak up a ton of paint in that one little sponge. That was an interesting mess.



More funny things she's saying:
After I caught her filling her entire palm with liquid soap (because I turned away for a second) I asked her how many squirts was she allowed. She said "just 1" and I asked how many she had and she replied "A whole bunch. Isn't that crazy?" ... There's a long story about the man w/ the googly eyes that I'll try to save for another blog. I'll have to snap a picture of him when it's warmer. On our way home from school one day she was talking about how the man w/ the googly eyes was going to come to her house on Saturday (it's not as creepy as it sounds). Then said "Wouldn't that be amazing?" ... On their way home from school earlier this week, Peter can't remember what they were talking about but she had replied "That's fabulous." ... She and I were looking at a book and I was pointing around the page asking her what things were. I pointed at a bunch of balloons and she told me they were "balloons with helium." ... Tonight on our way home from school I was running a yellow light and as I was going through I kinda groaned and Claudia asked why I made that noise. I told her I just ran the light. Claudia said "You ran the light?" I said "Yes." She said "on purpose?" I said "What?!" She said "Did you run the light on purpose?" I said "Now that is certainly one for the blog!"

Uncle David's visit

Claudia's Uncle David (one of Peter's brothers) came into town from Macon, GA. He was stopping by before heading to San Diego for a conference. The weather was really crummy here, lots and lots of rain and temperatures much colder than usual. But that didn't stop us from getting out to eat Singaporean, Indian, Mexican and Dim Sum in the roughly 48 hours that David was here. It was a treat for all.
Claudia enjoyed having Uncle David stay w/ us. She especially liked when Uncle David held her up to the ceiling.

And she enjoyed playing "volleyball" which is rolling a ball back and forth on the floor.



Some other interesting notes...When we returned to San Jose from our trip to the Midwest, Claudia played w/ nearly every one of her toys/games/animals in about a 2 hour span. The house was a mess. I likened it to a dog marking his territory...Claudia and I were looking at a picture that I had just printed and she took it from me, when I asked for it back she said "hold your horses". She definitely didn't get that from ME!... The other day I was asking what she wanted to do (for crafts) and when I said "let's fingerpaint" she replied "excellent idea!" As an aside, I don't remember fingerpaints being so messy...Last night we were eating salads and she was asking me what this middle part was (the big veiny thing on the middle of a leaf of romaine lettuce). I told her it was the stalk and she said "no, it's a combination". "A combination of what" I had to ask in disbelief that she even used that word, and she replied "A combination of this leaf and that leaf" pointing to the greens on either side of the stalk.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Snow certainly is nice to look at and play in, though not so nice to drive in! We had a white Christmas in Lawrence and Claudia got to do a little sledding.