Pleasures of Spring

The girls had a great week, learning and growing. It really seems that each time I get to visit them they have a new word or skill. Chloe uses sign language, particularly for "milk" and Claire still speaks very expressively and talks with her hands, but we don't always know what she is talking about. When Chloe is signing, she looks you intently in the eye and watches to make sure you "get it". Pretty funny. Her facial expressions also tell the story so many times. I hope to get a picture one of these days when she is staring at me and trying to convey a message.


Above they are ready for a walk and on that walk we stopped to look at some flowers. Apparently I made some comment like, "Wow, those are pretty flowers" and so as we walked, at every flower bed we encountered, Chloe, and sometimes Claire, would exclaim "wow". Chloe uses that word quite often anyway, but now I am thinking she may have decided every flower is called "wow". We will have to work on flower recognition...that would make her Daddy happy.

We had visitors this week, Grandma and Papa's friends Bill & Cheryl. Both of the girls decided to be very, very shy. They hid their faces in my lap and arms until our guests got to the door and were saying their goodbyes. At that moment they looked up and Bill snapped their picture. I think they even gave them a little smile.

Below is two hat Chloe, Chloe in a new spring outfit, and Chloe again with Claire in her tutu.



































They got some new sandals this week and just like before, the shoes brought them lots of pleasure and fun. (It doesn't take much sometimes!) Chloe is wearing the lavender ones and Claire the pink ones. They marched and played with them for a long, long time. At one point they each had one of each color on their feet.

Here is a little film of Claire being silly, she stands on her head this way quite often and many times it is a sign that she is very tired. Chloe does it too, but not as much as Claire. The last little film is Claire, in her tutu again, busying herself with the tippy cups.

The last picture is of Claire giving Papa a kiss. She is very generous and sweet with her kisses.

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