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Fashionista

Clara is becoming interested in fashion. Not really, probably more interested in putting on articles of clothing all by herself. Sometime it makes for funny outfits. This is a onesie she tried to put over the outfit she was already wearing.

She is also very interested in Mommy's makeup. If Mommy isn't good about putting her makeup away or hiding her purse, Clara will usually get her hands on a tube of lip gloss as seen below. She is always very mad when she is caught and the lip gloss is taken away.



Eventually I had to get Clara her own "makeup"



My favorite is when Clara decides to clomp around in Mommy's shoes. Who knew walking in high heels could come so naturally!

Over the river and through the woods

Also in May 2011, Clara spent a week with Grandma and Papa Rogers in West Virginia while Clark and I took a trip to Washington D.C. Clara loves playing with Grandma on the organ or piano




One of her favorite parts about Grandma and Papa's house is their little playhouse in the back yard. Meals and naps were a little more difficult because first you had to drag Clara (usually kicking and screaming) out of the playhouse. It was so cute to see her play - things are always more fun when they are just your size!

Cupboard under the stair

These pictures and video were taken in May 2011. Clara was still referring to herself as "Caca" now she calls herself "Cawa." But for the longest time her favorite place to be while Mom was cooking in the kitchen was this little cabinet where I keep our Tupperware. It reminded me of Harry Potter and his cupboard under the stair. One of her favorite games to play is still a form on hide and seek where she hides and Mom is supposed to say "Where's Clara?" and she pops out and we all say "There she is!".

Easter 2011

Happy Easter everyone; I know I'm a little late. I have two excuses: #1 I left the disk with all the pictures at my in-laws house and had to ask my friend to burn me another (she did so in record time) #2 My computer is a living dinosaur (something we hope to remedy in July) and several attempts to upload pictures were thwarted due to time or my computer refusing to cooperate.

This was not Clara's first Easter, but it was her first year to hunt for Easter eggs. I hid 12 of them but after about 6 she was done. She was much more interested in the egg's contents and totally lost interest in hunting for them. She is officially 18 months old (19 months now). She is becoming such a little jabber-er (?). She will pat me on the shoulder and say "dis is momma" and then patting herself, "Caca." She is trying to say CLARA - "L"s and "R"s are tricky I guess - I just wish she would include one of them so that it doesn't sound like she is speaking Spanish.

My dear friend took these pictures as a Mother's Day gift. Visit her blog at tashataylorphotography.blogspot.com; I think she did a beautiful job and goodness knows it takes a special person to coax a smile out of my Clara (she's kind of stingy with them). This was Clara's easter dress!

ARIZONA

In February Clara and I took a trip to Arizona so that I could reunite with my dear college roomies. We had a great time letting our girls play while we got caught up. Clara had a great time at the park playing in the sand box and riding the train and carousel. We also enjoyed swimming (don't you love AZ, swimming in February), and the children's museum. Since Mommy is terrible at remembering to take pictures I only have a few to share. These were taking at the park.

She is getting so big. We were having so much fun that we were just too excited to sleep - Clara was anyway (Mommy WOULD have slept just fine). After four days of excitement and very little zzz's Clara was tuckered-out. This video was taken in the airport. She fell asleep in Momma's arms 5 minutes later -poor baby.

Snow No-Likey

Snow no-likey. I guess when both parents are brought up in the South, it's just not in the genes. She wanted nothing to do with the freezing white stuff that Mommy and Daddy were trying to sell her. Wouldn't even stand in it. Part of the problem might be the snow gear. It greatly hinders ones movement and balance and when you are new to those things anyway . . . well see for yourself. Clark looks about as thrilled as Clara.

Oh well, at least the pink leopard coat is cute, right?

Funny Face

Clara just recently added this facial expression to her repertoire; I'm not sure if she is concentrating or what but I had to get it on film.

Thanksgiving 2010

It has been over a month since my last post. Shameful; especially since I have so many pictures to post. Our Thanksgiving weekend was so much fun. We were actually home alone on Thanksgiving and so I had the chance to make my first ever Thanksgiving feast (turkey and all). Everything turned out beautiful and totally edible - delicious actually. I was so proud I took a picture . . . tilt your head because I can't figure out how to flip this thing righ-side-up. The Friday after Thanksgiving we made our way down to West Virginia to see our "Mountain Momma" and the rest of the Rogers. A nice neighbor came by and took lots of family photos.

I think my favorite series of photos was with the little girls . . . Clara is still not smiling even though Mommy is in front of her making a fool of herself.

WHACK!!!!

Sad and yet, so hilarious.

We got a nice photo of our little family - expect to see it in our Christmas card (if I ever get to Christmas cards).
Grandma bought her three granddaughters matching dresses and on Sunday we dolled-up the cousins and tried again with the pictures. There was no whacking or crying or smiling (at least from Clara) but they all looked pretty and festive in their sweet little dresses.

I just love this precious little girl!

Trick-or-Treat

We didn't take our little fairy trick-or-treating but we did have a lot of fun dressing her up for our ward Halloween party. Isn't she the prettiest little fairy you've ever seen? (Yeeeeessss!!!)

Missy also dressed up and felt completely ridiculous for two reasons:

1) Apparently Halloween, like Trix, is for kids and therefore she was one of the few adults in costume - even Clark chickened out.

2) "What are you supposed to be?" Actually most were too polite to ask, or maybe they thought my Jersey-shore, Bump-it hair was a new style I was experimenting with. Obviously, I watch too much TV. But seriously? Can you guess who I am? I'll give you a hint - my apron says PROGRESSIVE . . . ?

Flo, I'm supposed to be Flo from the Progressive car insurance commercials; ring a bell? Oh well. Next year I will probably be one of the adults NOT feeling ridiculous because I am wearing my boring, every-day clothing. We also took Clara to the Zoo. The Indianapolis Zoo has a crazy-crowded event called ZooBoo and Clark got free tickets. I did not take any animal pictures . . . which is weird . . . but here are the other pictures we took at the zoo. Clara was so cute pointing at the animals and saying "datdatdat."

I love this face.

We hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween!

And we're done with pictures.
Goblin Eggs.