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Conversations with my Claire

This is my picture of the week. Man, I love these babies...

I have to relay a funny conversation I had with Claire this morning so that I have it written down and don't forget it. So many times we recieve very funny insights into her mind by the things she says, and I don't write them down and later wish I had.... So here goes... I'm in the kitchen doing dishes and she is finishing watching a Dora television showwhen she says...

Claire: "Mom, I'd be lucky if I had 17 fingers."

Me: Why do you wish you had 17 fingers?

Claire: Then I could have each finger do something different and I could do 17 things all at the same time.

Me: Sounds good. But why do you need to do 17 things all at one time?"

Claire: Because it's better than 10 things.

Case closed. She's right! I just wonder where she comes up with this stuff out of the blue? Do you think my endless multitasking is rubbing off on her? My quirky Claire. We just have to love her!

Pools, haircuts, cinco de mayo parties, etc.

The past two weeks can be talked about best with pictures (plus I love looking at other people's pictures and hope you like looking at ours, too!)
Caulder got his first taste of our california summers in one of our new additions (this one just for him) in our backyard. He LOVES the water, and you can kinda see his new teeth (4 now) in this picture.
Claire- What can I say? She's our diva! That's a black umbrella she's holding up there. You can't see it in this picture, but she is also sporting a new soft cast on her left wrist. She fell while going across the monkey bars and fractured her wrist. She gets to wear it for another week or so.
Caulder was all about trying to get into the Garcia- Youngs new pool/blow up slide just so he could shoot the water guns. We enjoyed great friends, fun and mexican food for a pre-cinco de mayo block party in the cul de sac last night.
The girls stayed entertained with some water balloon tossing, and later water balloon fighting at the cinco de mayo party. Thanks for inviting us! We should make it a yearly tradition!

Caulder with Annie's mp3 player. This one should be in an ad.
Savannah approached me last sunday morning and asked me to cut her hair like her cousin Aislyn's. I kept asking her if she was sure, and finally took the scissors to it. Kids are pretty cool that way. They don't debate about big decisions like this the way adults do, they just do it. This picture was before the cut-
This one was during-
This one was after. She likes it and I have still not heard any complaining about her missing her hair.
The girls are enjoying our 80 degree whether with our latest eye sore to be added to the backyard. Todd promised me that this 15 foot pool was the largest we would get before opting for an in-ground pool. The girls are in Heaven!

As for other interesting things to mention that weren't photographed, Todd spent last weekend at a Camporee in charge of the orienteering merit badge. I heard so many compliments from other leaders about what a great job he did, and he was all smiles... camping is one of his favorite things in the whole world. I spent the saturday with Caulder in sacramento at my friend Sarah's baby shower where I got to see a lot of Curran's old nurses from the hospital. It was a little surreal and at times awkward, but overall worth it. Caulder flirted his way into each of the women's hearts.

I also spent this evening making 45 sombrero cookie's for the girls classes tomorrow for the Mexican independance day. As I sat cutting out the cookie dough, Claire kept me entertained with christmas carols as she said that today reminded her of christmas. I guess I need to make sugar cookies more often :)

I was tagged by Mara tonight, but I'll update that later... my brain is fried, and Keslie, I have another load of Laundry to do :)