Half Birthday

Today is Claire's half birthday! She's 18 months old and halfway to another birthday party! We've had a wonderful day! It all started yesterday with a BIG day of Christmas shopping and picking up a very special visitor for the weekend.

Yesterday we left home about 8 a.m. and got home about 10:15 p.m! Claire was such a good shopper! We shopped with Gammy, Grandma, Daddy, Aunt Ria and Caisey! We got lots of shopping done, met Santa Clause and picked Caisey up to spend the whole weekend with us!

This morning we slept in. We got to play for a while before Trever headed to Rantoul to work for a while. Then it was times for a girls day. We cleaned, wrapped presents, and started making Christmas cookies.

Trever brought Papa Johns home for dinner and is out doing chores. Claire is currently hiding in the corner with my cell phone and Caisey and I are watching Next Great Baker. When Trever gets in from chores it will be time to bake our cookies!

And yes, we are still in our pajamas at 5:43 p.m.

Now, about Claire at 18 months...

• she has started stealing Trevers change and likes to put it in her piggy bank.
• pulls the chair up to the kitchen counter to help
• says she wants santa to bring her "nemenems" (M&Ms)
• wraps up her baby in dish towels (apparently Papa Wayne taught her that)
• says "smime" (excuse me) and covers her mouth when she burps
• has started saying Mommmeeeeeeee instead of mama.
• fist bumps everybody, including complete strangers and the cat