Aidan 9 year well check

Well check stats for Aidan's 9th birthday!

Weight: 57 lbs
25th percentile
7 lbs gain since last year

Height: 50.5"
18th percentile
2.5" gain since last year

This goober is ready for his close up.

At his first UT game this fall

Art work for Mothers Day 2012

From Clara.  Mother's Day 2012. 

Clara, 4 years old

Birthday fun

Clara says she had the "berry berry best birthday ever"

Enjoying her birthday lunch @ Chuck-E-Cheese.

Clara, Aidan and Brandon enjoying some birthday ice cream.

5 years old!

Clara turned 5 years old this past weekend.   She is now 42.5" (52nd %) tall and weighs 38 lbs (39th %).  She grew 3"  and 5 lbs this year - major growth spurt!

This little girl LOVES to ride bikes.  She learned to ride without training wheels about a month ago and wants to ride every day, all day long.  

These are her new PJ's and the necklace she made from a kit received for her birthday.  She makes this crazy pose pretty often, not sure why or where she picked it up!

Another pose with new toys and a new outfit.

Clara Sayings

Erupting me =  Interrupting me

It's a toss up - either she's Carl from Up or Garth from Wayne's world.

"roughing" it

Another Clara saying:

Roughing it = rubbing it

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"Hanging on the couch. "

Abc's

Apple butt = Alphabet

Luckily, this term was short lived
March 2012

Tiki?

Clara:  I hurt my tiki finger!
Me: Your what?
Clara:  My tiki finger! That's her name! I hurt her and then I put water on her and now she's dead!

April 2012

Space!

Clara has been studying space at school this month.  She told me today that she wishes she could make a “cont-sta-la-tion” in the sky (she says very slowly so she can get it right).  She wants to make a real one, not just on paper.   Then she showed us her drawing of the “Monkey Way”.    She cracked herself up because she couldn’t say Milky Way.  She says that she likes saying “monkey”.

May 2012

Aidan says, "I'm on fire!"

Dirt

ME:  Who's taking a shower?
Clara:  Why?
ME:  Because you're dirty
Clara:  But, dirty is awesome.

April 2012

Nexterday

Clara sayings:

Nexterday  - Tomorrow or yesterday.... could be either, or both
Last year - Anything from yesterday to anytime in Clara's memory
"the next day" - tomorrow

Summer 2012

Fun at the museum

April 2012

Fun at the Natural Sciences museum in Austin. 

Captain Brandon

April 2012

Playing at the park

From April 2012

Sticky lips

From September 2012

Clara had waffles this morning. Afterwards I started to give her a kiss and she stopped me. She said I couldn't kiss her because her lips were sticky and then we'd be stuck together forever!!

You can never be too careful at the Watkins house.

From May 2012

This is how she fell asleep... helmet and all.  

I need it for a dirtbike.... Or a phone

From March 2012

Clara informed me today that she needed money.... for a dirtbike.. or a phone.  Apparently she's planning WAY in advance for either option.

catching up from a year's worth of blog posts....

Spider Bugs

2012 started off for us with a really nasty stomach bug. It started with Aidan, 36 hours later hit Clara, 48 hours later hit me, 36 hours later hit James. D and B managed to miss it, thankfully.

Clara overheard me describe Aidan's virus as a stomach "bug". When she got sick, she told me that she had the spider now. As she explained to me, "because a spider is a kind of bug."

She told me that she must've eaten the spider too and that's why she got sick.

Clara's "ready!"

This is Clara's pose for a picture... such a goober.

What's behind your back?

Clara is probably the sneakiest of all of our kids. When told that she can't do something, she usually takes that to mean that she can't do it in front of you. Her face almost always gives her away especially when she's trying to hide something behind her back.

Its hard not to laugh though because she mixes up the words "nothing" and "anything"

Me: What's behind your back?

Clara: Anything....

Nutcracker

What did you say???

Clara really had to examine this little guy before she would stand next to him for a picture.

Few more from the ballet

Ready for the ballet!

1st at Torcs race at Del Valle

Our Turkey Trotters!

A new haircut

Clara has been asking for several weeks now for a new, short haircut.  Her hair is prone to tangles and constantly is in her face and in her food.  I think she finally tired of the morning battle of combing out the tangles and of me constantly trying to put it in a pony tail to keep it free of debris. 

Here it is!  She’s super cute with this short sassy bob.

Before – I’m ready!!! 

 

And After!

     

All I want for Christmas is .. my other front tooth

Santa Tree Decorating 2011

 

We tackled the Santa Tree @ mom’s house last night…  as always, these kiddos do things their own special way. 

 

Ladders?  We don’t need ladders!

Yay! One picture of Clara smiling at the camera without something in front of her face!

And I have no idea why I took this picture sideways…. oops!

 

Dancing Queen

Clara doing a little dance at our hotel over the past weekend.

This went on for a while, it was adorable ... enjoy.

Rockin' Thanksgiving

Passing a band at the Turkey Trot, Clara says, "I've never seen rock & roll before!"

Turkey girl!

Clara at the Turkey Trot. She and Aidan "ran" a mile with me and Mom while the big boys ran the 5 miles. Clara calls this her "chicken shirt" and was very proud to be wearing her very own number this year.

Santa, Chocolate Milk & Frosty Hats

Nana & I took Clara to have breakfast with Santa and Frosty. At the event, Clara got to visit with Santa – no tears, but no smiles either – and decorate a Frosty hat. Frosty was also wandering around but Clara wanted nothing to do with him either.

She enjoyed the glitter glue and decorations best.

Goober in candyland

Riding the Metro!

Clara and I took a ride on the Capital Metro commuter train!   I think Clara’s favorite part was running to catch the train.  She kept re-telling me the story of how I yelled, “Hold the door!” and then put my arm through the door. 

It was a fun little trip and much better than driving downtown. 

Aidan at Savvy Kids Conference

 

Aidan and I went to a kids conference where we practiced our Destination Imagination structure building skills.  Our challenge was to build a structure using any or all of the materials available:  masking tape, note cards (4), paper (6 ), straws (4) and stir sticks (4).  We then measured our structure against how much weight it could hold. 

Aidan came up with this design of a triangular shape braced by stir sticks and straws.   It held a whopping 45 pounds!!! 

No footers

 

This is Brandon’s trademark move…  at the finish line jump he always does a no-footer.  This kid’s got style. 

Devlin at the Finish Line

 

ADV MX November 13 2011

Race day

 

Yesterday was race day at Del Valle MX.  Aidan raced for the first time.  He raced in the 51cc Sr Class.  He did great and had a wonderful time.  James only signed him up in one class but Aidan let him know several times that he would’ve been ok with more racing!

In between races, which for Aidan was hours, he only took off his helmet.  He kept on all other gear so that he was always ready to go.

Despite getting to be so big, I love that he still holds my hand and wants to sit in my lap…  I dread the day he grows out of that phase.  When it does though, I’ll at least have pictures for proof.