Day 1 - Epcot

Clara wearing her backpack.. complete with "leash" that lasted about 10 minutes.

D, B and A at the pavillion outside Spaceship Earth

Brandon in... Morocco, maybe?

Aidan and Clara playing with the water in the fountain

B and A looking for Aidan's ring that fell over the edge. James rescued it.

Aidan and Pop-pop contemplating something at Epcot.

Pics from the hotel

Aidan and Clara

Clara in Pig Tails

thought i had posted these already but i don't see them... these are from the pumpkin carving night. Cute pics of Clara in pig tails..

Some random pics of goobers @ Disney

Getting into Disney

1,100 miles later....

ADVMX - Trophy day at the track!

The racing series wrapped up that D and B have been partcicipating in... 10 months later.

Both boys did great and brought home some hardware.

D placed 1st and 2nd in the two classes he raced in. Brandon placed 5th and 7th in his two classes. Woo hoo!

Clara on the tea cups @ Disneyworld

Dancing queen

Clara doing the dance Devlin taught her

Xmas at Disney Hollywood Studios

Christmas @ Cinderella's Castle

Sand

Clara hates the sand. She refuses to put her feet down when we walk on
the beach.

Beach!!!

On the road

Last night we drove from Austin to baton rouge - a little more than
halfway. We pulled into a hotel around 230 am. All the kids woke up
for a little while but settled back in to sleep pretty quickly...
Except Clara. She was wide awake well after 3. Out of desperation we
turned on the tv. One hundred channels and my darling little girl
wanted to watch Ultimate Fighter.

Are we there yet?

We have been in the car for 15 minutes and Aidan just asked if we are
still in Texas. Gonna be a looooong trip.

Halloween 2009

Clara went as a pink pirate... complete with black eye left over from her birthday party the previous weekend.

Clara had a headband with her costume that we had to put on and/or rearrange on her head dozens of times before starting out for trick or treating... by we, i mean me and dad. We were having creative differences about the way to wear the headband :)

Brandon hanging out w/ friends from the neighborhood & Pop Pop.

Brandon as a zombie

Kids from the neighbhoorhood

Brandon, Nachite & Nathan doing the Thriller dance

Me and Cheryl as 80s girls :)

Devlin as Motox rider

Me and Clara

Pock

Clara has recently discovered pockets and loves all her clothes that have them. She calls them "pocks"

Pumpkin Carving

Here are the pics from Pumpkin Carving 2009!

Before

After

Clara's 2 year well check

Clara had her 2 year well check today.

25 lbs (30th percentile)
32.75 inches (25th percentile)

She has met all the milestones that she should be doing for her age: running, climbing, problem solving, eating variety of foods, using pronouns and having a vocab of more than 50 words. I think we've got everything covered!

Catching up

What you can't see in the photo is that I'm in the same pose - on the
phone, with legs propped up. She kept talking to her nana, pop pop, and
mimi and would close the phone and set it on the arm of her chair.

Little Gym

Some pictures from the Little Gym this week.

Hair days.

It seems that we've now reached the days of "doing" Clara's hair in the morning. Today was picture day for the boys so they each waited in line for me to comb their hair. After Brandon finished, Clara stood in front of me for her turn. She pulled the pony tail holders out of the drawer and stood patiently (sorta) for me to do her hair too. It's time to teach James the joys of pig tails!

Clara's 1st pigtails

The ladies at daycare did Clara's hair. There isn't much hair there but they still managed to get it into pig tails!