Claire's Preschool Program

This is the :12 version. If you want the 5:00 version, email me and I will send it to you. =) You are either very bored, need a good laugh, or love Claire very much!

Ellis is pretty smart, too!

Ellie is reclining on a bag of trash (I think), reading a book. So what that it's upside down and only the jacket of the book. She stayed like that for the longest time. Ellie is very content, most of the time, to just hang out.

Proof of Claire's Intelligence...or Ingenuity

When I am working in my office, I put up two gates so that the girls are confined to one room of the house (right outside my office). Claire figured out that if she drops a toy bucket on the other side of gate, she can use a chair to simply step over the gate. Pretty smart, huh?

My Little Butterfly

This is one of my favorite pictures of Ellie. The butterfly wings bring out her big, blue eyes. No story, just a great picture.

Every 3-year-old does it at some point....

The date: 3 weeks before Claire is the Flower Girl in Bree and Dan's wedding.

The scene: I am sitting at my desk, working.

I hear John yell from upstairs, "Where did all this hair come from?"

Yep. Claire was Mommy's big helper and cut her bangs...with the trimming scissors. Just like Mommy does...kind of.

Oh yeah, and she cut her sister's bangs too. I am amazed that she didn't cut anything else off. Those are sharp scissors! I am also amazed that Ellie stood still long enough for Claire to do it.

And her preschool teacher said she needed to work on her cutting skills...right.

My Little Flower Girl.....

Claire was a flower girl in my niece's wedding last night. So cute! (Claire, not Bree - Bree was stunning!) No drama...at the wedding. There was plenty before. From Claire, not Bree. During the rehearsal, Claire wouldn't walk down the aisle by herself and threw a hissy. She loved the basket with flowers though. Luckily, her co-flower girl, Grace, told her exactly what she needed to do. Claire loved Grace and did everything Grace told her. Gavin (the ring bearer) had a crush on Claire and wanted to hold her hand. So....Grace walked down the aisle first, followed by Claire and Gavin holding hands. Claire shook off Gavin's hand to throw her flowers and followed Grace down the aisle. She got to the front of the church, turned around, and said "Mommy, I did it." and came to sit with me. It was a very good memory!

Mother's Day and Spring Programs

For Mother's Day I received a great new camera. It even takes short video clips!

I have some great pictures of the girls. Today was Claire's Spring Program at school and I captured about 5 minutes of her actually participating in the program!

Now if I could just get the stupid stuff of the #$(*&$ camera. The end of my current camera transfer cord is too big and the little SD card will fit into the SD drive on my computer, but it won't let me retrieve anything. You have to love technology! ...love...hate...same dif.

I'll figure it out soon enough. Or John will get tired of my complaining and figure it out for me. =)Update: I figured it out (obviously)! The above pic is the girls waiting patiently to go to church on Mother's Day.