Two-Year-Old Princess

Today Claire went to the doctor for her two-year-old check-up.  The doctor declared her to be “perfect.”  I couldn’t agree more!

The skinny on our girl:

She’s now two feet 10 inches tall.  She weighs 25 lbs 14.4 oz.  These figures put her in the 33rd percentile for weight and the 42nd percentile for height.  For her height, her weight is perfect.  They did a blood test, and all of Claire’s numbers were perfect.  Developmentally, she is ahead of most of her age group.  She’s potty trained, can swim on her own, talks in sentences, can count to 10, knows most of the alphabet (She forgets a few of the letters in the middle sometimes.), can read some basic words, knows her colors, knows the names and sounds of most of the animals at the zoo, etc.

Claire is now wearing a size 2T or 24 months in everything, including pants.

Claire is smart and sweet and funny and charming.  She loves to entertain.  She loves caring for her babies.  She loves to help.  She loves cooking – both in our kitchen and in her new Minnie Mouse kitchen that she got for her birthday.  She loves to sing and dance.  She loves to swim and slide and swing and be outdoors.  She loves to snuggle and read books.  She loves people and is very friendly, polite and outgoing.

She still loves Minnie Mouse and is now loving the princesses too, especially Cinderella, a/k/a “Rella.”  Claire will sometimes declare, “The princess is me!”

She loves jewelry and dresses and getting her nails polished and her hair fixed.  She is such a girly girl!  After she gets dressed up, especially for church on Sundays, she announces, “Look, Daddy!  I’m boo-tiful!”

She’s very kind and loving and is going to be a wonderful big sister!

Steve and I are so blessed to have Claire in our lives.  She is more wonderful than we ever hoped, dreamed or imagined she would be.  We are so thankful that God gave her to us.  God is indeed the kindest person we know!

This will be the last post on Claire’s blog until her birthday month next year.  Thanks for sharing in another year of celebrating Claire!

Claire, we are so glad you’re ours!  Love you much!!

The Grand Finale

Today is the last day of the birthday month.  It has been so much celebrating our girl! 

The last two years have been absolutely wonderful!  Claire is so sweet and so funny.  She is such a joy!  I am truly honored to be her mommy.  Happy 2nd Birthday, Baby Girl!  I love you much!!!

Claire’s 2-year checkup is scheduled for July 6th.  I’ll do another post after that appointment to update you on her 2-year stats.

Thank you for celebrating Claire’s birthday with us!

More Celebration!!

Last night we took Claire to the Memphis Zoo.  She loves the zoo; so do we!

Playing on the new playground

Riding the carousel – Claire loves elephants and was so excited to get to ride one.

We had a great time!  We saw lots of animals and enjoyed the time as a family.  I know that Claire is most likely the only party animal you care to see pictures of, but I just couldn’t resist sharing this picture of Payton, the Polar Bear – so cute!

My loves enjoying the zoo together!

I am so very blessed!!  Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!

Flying Ant

We love our Veggies!

“I Paint!”

“Colors!”

“I paint!”

And then somehow, the finger paints turned into body paints.  (It should be noted that Mommy was sleeping in, and Daddy was supervising – and encouraging – this painting party.)

Note the paint on the knees and arms.  Now she’s painting herself a beard.

Time for a bath

She colors our world beautifully!

Kitty

Today Claire received a Hello Kitty coloring book.

Claire wanted to start coloring right away.  She simply couldn’t wait until after breakfast.

I totally love this girl!

Surprise Party

Last night at our Bible study, Kelsie made Claire some Minnie Mouse cake pops for her birthday.  They were so cute!  And delicious!

Claire started by eating the ears.

Thank you, Kelsie!  We know a lot of time and effort went into making these yummy treats for our little girl!  We love you!!

Big Colors

Claire has a Fisher Price Doodler Mini that “lives” in my purse.  It goes with us everywhere and entertains her when necessary. Anytime she wants it, she asks for her “colors.”  When she opened her gift this morning, she screamed, “Big colors!  Yay!”

More Gifts

Claire received another gift in the mail!

Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa O!  We love you!!!

Minnie Socks

Claire was SO excited about her gift this morning!  She squealed and yelled, “Minnie socks!  Help!  Help!” as she brought them to me to help her put them on.

Sock model

 

I love how excited my daughter gets over the little things in life – like new socks that have Minnie Mouse on them.  It’s so easy to make her happy, and she’s so thankful for life’s simple pleasures.  I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful daughter!