Last night, Cam and I decided to paint our hallway brown. So after a quick trip into town to our favorite store (Home Depot) we came back to tape while Clementine was still up. She is in a "I must help you" stage right now so I gave her a strip of painters tape to "help". I thought for sure the cat was going to get it, but Clementine stuck to the same wall I was working on! She's so thoughtful!
This office is only for children and they sure know what they're doing. It was great because that put us all at ease! Actually, Clementine was at ease from the moment she walked in the door. She wanted to walk in by herself, so we opened the door for her and she marched right up to the receptionist's table where there were about five ladies waiting to begin the day. She smiled and said "HI!" to every single lady standing there then went to play in the play area. She's such a character!
This children's Dentist's office had all kinds of stuff for kids her age. A puppet with dentures so Clem could brush it's teeth, sunglasses to wear, a mirror for her to hold. It was fabulous.
The day was a total success, Clem's teeth and gums are healthy and she loves brushing her teeth by herself. We did learn that Clementine still has about 4 more teeth due to arrive any minute now. Here I thought we were done with teething!
Here is Clementine in November 2008. Still bald but we could tell she'd be a blondie. In this picture Clementine was "cruising" the furniture but she had learned to walk about a week previous. She was sleeping through the night (at long last) but was still struggling to keep weight on (she did not inherit this from me). She had just weened herself and was desperate to start eating big people food (and bottles of formula). We started to see glimpses of her personality here: very silly and goofy, a big time animal lover and stubborness that rivals only Cam's.
And now here is my big girl, sitting at the table in a big girl chair (no booster or high chair for this independent minded bug) drinking milk from a glass (sippies are for babies, she says). She finally has hair! She is a big time talker and she has a BIG personality. She is so sweet, so sensitive, a great friend to her classmates and very passionate. She loves to make everyone around her laugh. She loves to help mama and daddy, she gives drive-by-snuggles and is still desperate to be a big kid. She is getting two year old molars and she no longer struggles, at all of 32 pounds, to keep weight on (she's discovered carbs). Blustery winter weather has us stuck in the house and we are thinking about the days when we could play at the park all the live-long day! Here's a classic video of Cam and Clementine playing chase at our all time favorite park last summer.
When Clementine switched to drinking from a cup we noticed how little liquid she actually consumes. So to get her to drink more, we started giving Cheers at dinner. Throughout the meal one of the three of us will say "CHEERS!" and we all clink glasses then take a drink. Clementine loves it and she's actually getting some liquids into her body now!
Downtown's businesses had trick or treating during the daytime which fit perfectly for this little bug's--or cow's, I suppose--bedtime!
We went downtown after nap and went store to store trick or treating. We ran into several friends downtown (they took that first picture up top) and one asked Clementine "What does a cow say?" to which she replied "PLEASE," She'd been practicing saying please since "trick or treat" is a mouthful! Love this little girl!!!!
Since we were downtown we decided to get a potato burrito at Casa Que Pasa. While we waited these two sat on a bench cracking each other up! I think the sugar caught up to them!
After that, we changed and took baths and Clementine helped me pass out candy to the 800,000,000 trick or treaters that came to our house. She loved putting candy into kids' sacks and saying "Bye bye" and closing the door. It was a fabulous Halloween!
