Ready for Fall

 Claire

This week we have seen our friend less than normal, but almost every day and Claire keeps asking to go to her friends house on the days he doesn't come over. I think she likes when he brings his toys here and they can steal them by baiting him with our toys because he likes our cars. At least it is a form or sharing and they all have fun driving around the house or in Claire's case flying his helicopter (in the video). We used our curlers overnight to have curly hair for church and the result right after taking them out was so funny Chris got some pictures. I was able to tame the curls and make them look less crazy for church, I think it still looked cute after loosening them, but I'm still experimenting and will be using the bigger ones next time. This week as been really hot and we've been trying to get out to play when it is cool, but we don't get much except what is in our backyard. 

Shay

My little bundle of attitude here is learning her own form of stubborn and folds her arms and gets mad at me when I don't give her what she wants. I bought a new kind of cereal that is more colorful and fun than the past ones we have had so now she asks for it at every meal! Of course I have to tell her no and she gets all annoyed that I won't let her have it, and if she hasn't had a nap that day and it is past 3 she gets sooooo terrible. Darn this 2 years of age! She has broken the habit of sticking her tongue out or hitting so I'm good with her being upset with me in her own growling way. There is still a huge attachment to me when I'm trying to leave for a meeting or something and she will start getting her shoes if she sees me getting ready to leave. I hear from Chris how heart broken she is about being left behind and it breaks my heart too! I wish there were more places we could go together instead of just church. Today I was trying to go for a walk around the neighborhood and they looked at me like "how could you leave us again" so we went together and they held hands and we walked for a good 30 minutes.