Birthday
When normal families celebrate back to school during August, we celebrate birthdays all month! To start us off, I have my unexciting birthday of getting special treatment and extra yummy food. Turning 30 is one of those bigger milestones I should celebrate, but I've been having too much fun planning Claire's birthday party next week to try anything for myself. I enjoyed a mini at-home spa night with a bubble bath and doing my nails, made crepes as my birthday breakfast, and plan on finishing off my specialness with a steak dinner. Ever since I had my own place in college my birthday presents have always been more useful things instead of playful things. This year we got me a fancy kitchen thermometer, a new mouse for my computer, and resupplying my gum stash. I got some birthday money from family that I plan on using for something special too. I put a birthday banner I made for Claire's party up already to have a little decoration for mine and we will most likely keep it up until after Chris's birthday.
Claire
With the many packages we have been receiving in preparation for birthdays, Claire found a fun new game to play with the part she gets to have. She lines up the wrap and jumps on them to make a big popping, and when I caught her doing it she was lining it up with the sound on a show she was watching which was even more fun. She knows that mommy has a birthday and then she has a birthday, but she hasn't realized that daddy has his birthday soon too. I'm excited for the rainbow party theme because she also just showed me she remembers the order of the rainbow by making a chalk rainbow all by herself! She got into measuring after she saw me using the tape measure around the room prepping something special for her party that you guys will see next week! She measured the tall block tower she built, the table, the height giraffe, and anything that was in reach.
Shay
She is becoming more and more helpful and loves to work together when I'm trying to clean, do dishes, fold cloths, and literally anything. I love it but I also hate it for how unproductive I feel while I'm helping her help me work. She likes to play with the play dough with her sister and makes me roll her half into a ball over and over while she flattens it over and over. Recently they want me to make cats out of their play dough because daddy did it for them. She wants to start conversations with me and will strongly say "mommy" and when I say "yes Shay" she will mumble incoherently so I don't know what she actually wants. I think its cute because it happened three times in a 5 minute span on our way to church this morning. She loves playing with anything that has letters and we have been going through popsicles like they are water so I made some simple alphabet puzzles with the cleaned sticks. I do the puzzles but she likes figuring out what the letters are once its done.
Also, they were being really cute before church while daddy was betting ready and dancing so I started singing that they kept asking for more songs.
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