Claudia has been cooking a lot lately.  We are trying to get her to try new foods and it seems to help that she is a chef.  She eats fairly well, but we want to explore green foods and she won't really eat meat at all.

We almost enrolled her in preschool this Spring because she liked one place so much but we think we will wait until the fall.  That gives us another season on Monkey Business.  

We have a lot of pictures to get up.  Hopefully today...

Claudia loves to watch Cesar Milan--The Dog Whisperer.  Last night we are watching TV.  The dog on the show is misbehaving, barking, etc...

Claudia: "Daddy, that dog needs the Dog Whisperer".

She wrote her name all by herself yesterday.  Miss Colleen also said it was her best day yet at Monkey Business; leading groups, speaking up, etc...

She is growing like crazy.

Claudia is pretty much an imagination machine at this pont.  We are constantly performing little one-act plays ("I'm Cinderella and you are the Prince!").

While Mommy was at the gym yesterday I am sitting in the kitchen.  Claudia picks up her maracas and keeps marching by chanting "Festa, Festa, lets have a Festa!".  She marches from one end of the kitchen 4-5 times.

Finally a light bulb goes off in my head:

"Claudia--do you mean fiesta?"

"Oohhhhhh"

Claudia loved going to the Beauty Shop last week (and we loved that she let somebody brush her hair).

Claudia did well at her 3 year (!!) appointment yesterday.  She is 39" tall (90th percentile) and 37.25 pounds.  She did well on everything.  She has a bit of an issue with her jaw.  Most of you notice she juts it out a bit and we will have the dentist check it when we go in March.

She did well on all the letter tests.  "Claudia, do you know the first letter of your name" "Yes, I do! C-L-A-U-D-I-A".