As in, duh mom, there are BEDS in Brazil, how could you still be tired???
Watkins Kids
the kids at Panama City Beach - Nov 2009
Apr 9, 2011
Zil has beds!
After I returned from a trip to Brazil, I was very tired. I had flown overnight and didn't sleep much on the plane. I was trying to convince Clara to join me for a nap and I explained to her that i was tired. She said to me, in a very exasperated tone, "Why are you sleepy? Zil has beds!"
Apr 5, 2011
Mar 29, 2011
Chocolate Face
Last night, we were eating chocolate chip cookies and aidan had cookie all the way past his dimples. We bet him 1000 points (on his chore chart) that he coudn't lick the chocoalte off. He didn't. But we had a lot of fun watching him try!
Mar 28, 2011
Clara's got a lot to say
Clara has had several wonderful new phrases lately.
ME: Clara, it’s 90 outside, you can’t wear a fleece dress
Clara: Momma, just don’t worry. [said with a shrug of her shoulders and a sing-song inflection]
After dropping something on accident
Clara: I’m so sorry. I’m so very sorry.
[said with such a sad tone.. I’d forgive her anything]
In the car, at the restaurant, in the bathroom, at bedtime, on her bike, etc. She sings constantly and about everything.
For example:
¯ I scratched my seeee-lllllf ¯ and it huuuurrrrrrt ¯ and I have three brotherrrrrrs ¯ and I’m a ‘stis’-terrrrrrr ¯
She’s adorable.
Mar 19, 2011
Apparently my movie was too loud...
Clara was downstairs with us while we watched a movie. She made a pallet and laid down. But apparently she was bored with our movie (The Social Network) and had to tune it out somehow. When we got up to turn off the movie, we found her asleep like this.
Mar 16, 2011
Long weekend
Clara has started using the phrase "long weekend". I think sometime around Spring Break I must have said this and she's picked it up as a time frame for anything she wants to do.
- Can I get a haircut on the long weekend?
- Can I go to nana's/mimi's/pop-pop's on the long weekend?
- Can I see Sophie on the long weekend?
Mar 8, 2011
Abraham Lincoln
The other night, Aidan was making faces in the mirror while I dried his hair. He kept making a very solemn expression and then told me that he was "Abraham Lincoln" -- because Abe never smiled in pictures. Then he told me that people didn't smile back then because they had a hard life.
Mar 4, 2011
Feb 22, 2011
I just can't!
Tonight, Clara and I had a disagreement over bedtime. When Clara stormed out of my room, she said to me, "I can't love you anymore!" It's hard to be mad at 3 feet of attitude in pigtails and dinosaur PJ's
We worked it all out and by bedtime she loved me again :)
Feb 20, 2011
It's your baby!
This past weekend, Clara and I had a lot of mommy-daughter time. One morning, she woke up before me and crawled up in bed with me. She laid next to me and wedged herself into my arms in as if I were cradling her. She then woke me up by tapping me on the shoulder. She told me "mommy, it's your baby!"
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 14, 2011
Super-Clara
Clara re-discovered her Wonder Woman onesie and has been wearing it around the house. She puts it on, puts her hands up (Superman style - one arm in front, one arm by the armpit) and runs around yelling "I, Super-Clara!".
Feb 8, 2011
Feb 6, 2011
happy faces
Clara is playing portrait photographer again. She told me to say cheese and I made a big face that was a tad goofy. Clara told me, "Not a silly face. Make a happy face!"
Night out with the g'parents
Clara took her suitcase everywhere with her..
And Aidan wanted to read his book everywhere he went...
Feb 4, 2011
Feb 2, 2011
Perfection
Last night, after Clara’s bath, she was jumping on the bed as we put PJ’s on. After she was dressed she put her arms out wide and said “Now I’m perfect!”
Jan 30, 2011
I welcome.
Clara's developing very good manners and always says please and thank you. However, when she says "You're welcome" she says "I Welcome!"
Jan 27, 2011
Jan 12, 2011
Say cheese dada!
The other night Clara found the tri-pod and used it to set up her own little portrait studio.
She sat each of us down separately, posed us, and then took our picture. She even made me and James do a couples portrait. It was adorable. She sat us down together and then told us "now hug". :)
Jan 7, 2011
Jan 5, 2011
Girls!
This was Moyra's first Christmas. Clara adores "her baby". The rest of us are pretty fond of her too :)
Clara likes to twirl in her Christmas dress.
Moyra and Aunt Tina
Moyra and her daddy
stocking hunt
The (mostly) annual stocking hunt! This is always one of our favorite traditions at dad & jenny's.
Each kid/parent team has to find their stockings by following clues left by a clever elf :)
Each kid/parent team has to find their stockings by following clues left by a clever elf :)
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