Fancy Gloves and Park Time

Chloe played in her "fancy" gloves for a while one morning this week. She thought she was quite the item. Getting them on her tiny little fingers was interesting, but we finally did it. The girls have a pink pair too, both with very sparkly "diamonds" on them; gifts from their good pal Haley. Pretend, is the name of the game these days. They were pretending to go to the store during one play time, and I would tell them I needed a certain item. Surprisingly, after a while, Claire came to me and told me that she had gotten each of the items and listed them verbally. I thought that was a pretty good memory!

Do you get the idea that maybe Chloe didn't want to be filmed? :)




During our park time one day this week we met up with a darling little boy named Lukka. It turns out that he was the same little guy that I mentioned in a post on December 6th. He and his caretaker had come by Claire and Chloe's house on a walk and had stopped to chat with the girls. He is now 15 months old, and Chloe, in particular, was quite taken by him.

Below, you see Claire contemplating something. She had just come to me and said, "Lukka is looking at me and that isn't very nice.!" I tried not to laugh, and I sure don't know where that came from.... out of the blue. Shortly, she was back at the slides enjoying Lukka's company.

The girls are going for one last run before we leave that day.

"Iffy" weather ahead for this week. I hope the weatherman is wrong!

Spring Fun--- Plus the Dentist

With the great spring weather we were able to get outside quite a bit this past week. We often walk by the fire station a few blocks from Chloe and Claire's home and on this day they were washing the truck. The girls are always interested in what is going on at the fire house.

After the walk it was necessary to check out the neighbor's flowers and then do a little jumping around.

What a difference 6 months makes! The dentist visit for Claire and Chloe this past week was "a piece of cake". Both girls were able to follow the directions given during the exam and were pretty relaxed. They enjoyed the toys in the waiting room to the fullest.

Claire was particularly taken with this dinosaur, notice what beautiful teeth it has. Is that a coincidence? I thought that was pretty funny.

Their rewards came in the form of stickers and little bracelets. They were quite pleased with both.


Chloe loved the doll house and spent quite a bit of time playing with it. She moved the dolls and furniture around and was just chattering away.

Although snacks were part of last week's posting, here is another example of the enjoyment the girls get when Papa arrives with a treat. This time it was vegetable "chips". The girls never fail to say "thank you, Papa" when he gives them something. Their manners are remarkable for two year olds.

Once again, Claire bursts into song.....




We enjoyed two days at two different parks, and are looking forward to beautiful weather again next week. Welcome Spring!

A Variety of Things....

Snacks are an important part of Chloe and Claire's day. Claire has usually been the "eater" of the two girls, but now the roles seem to have reversed a bit. Before lunch, one day last week, Chloe announced that she was "starving". The girls have learned to depend upon Papa to have something in his pocket when he arrives. One of the days this week when we got there, Chloe asked him, "Papa what do you have in your left pocket?" The little cookies you see below come in alphabet letters. Claire decided to look at her name even though she had said to me, "I can't wait to eat my name". Chloe on the other hand, had eaten her name immediately.

The girls are sometimes wanting to have really big girl cups, so in the next two photos you can see they are sharing juice out of a "big girl glass". Daddy's rule, before he left, was that it had to sit on the table and they could drink and set it back down, but not carry it around. They did very well.

Some play times, of course, were recorded by picture. Below the girls play with play dough and with a little toy train that they really enjoy.

The video below is one of several that I have of Claire singing this past week. She sings quite bit, as does Chloe, at times, but this time she sang through the whole song while accompanying herself on her alligator xylophone. Chloe played and sang a little too.



We were not eyewitnesses to the saga of the eggs this week, but apparently the girls got into some mischief. We heard multiple versions of it, Claire declared that "some bad people broke the eggs" and Chloe told us yesterday, later, after filming the egg discussion, that she had only broken "one" egg and held up her one finger. We really don't know what happened, Mommy only told us that all the eggs in the carton got broken and that the girls had opened the refrigerator. Unfortunately, the video will not upload, try as I might, so you will just have to believe me when I tell you it was very cute hearing Claire (mostly) and Chloe tell us about the egg event. In addition, another cute video with Chloe talking about her snacks wouldn't upload either. I tried different browsers and different computers and nothing worked. I'm a bit disenchanted with this blogging site.

The Week Now Gone......

Papa and Grandma were not able to help much with childcare this week because Chloe and Claire were "under the weather". Mommy stayed home to care for the sweet little girls who were coughing and somewhat miserable, especially at night. They are doing much better, for which we are thankful, and we look forward to spending more time with them this week. We did manage to get a couple of pictures of them brushing their teeth one morning and a shot of Claire having lunch another day. I did go with them to the doctor on Monday and after the doctor examined Chloe, she told him to "help Claire, too." Very precious!

When we stopped on this day as the girls were eating lunch, Claire exclaimed, "Oh, Papa didn't have to go to school today!" I asked her, "Claire, what is school?" She replied, "I don't know, Grandma". At the same time, Chloe was asking me, "What's new, Grandma?" Never a dull conversation with these two.

Here's to a healthy upcoming week!!!!