Mommy loves this story.

Claudia normally orders a grilled cheese if we go out to eat. Tuesday she was at Applebees. When the waitress came to order Mommy ordered chicken fingers for Claudia.

Later the waitress brings the food and puts the Chicken Fingers down in front of Claudia. Claudia stares at it for 10 seconds, looks up at waitress and says:

"Is my grilled cheese still cookin?"

Last night Claudia was at the cross country banquet. While the coach was giving his presentation they were serving the cake. Claudia was very good. Everyone very quiet and Claudia nice and loud "MMMMM--DEEEEELICIOS".

Claudia is very excited about watching the parade with her friends!!!!! She has been talking about it for days, although she was really hoping that we would see it "on the road". She is eagerly awaiting Santa so we can "say hi and wave".

Claudia is getting much better at her typing thanks to Elmo. She understands when to use the mouse or touchpad, but not quite how yet.

Elmo also helps her with lots of other things of course.

Claudia is already talking about her birthday lots (thanks to Mommy, I think) and she certainly wants cake with candles and balloons. We wore her out last year between Christmas-birthday-New Years-visits so we will try to give her some down time this year. She is already excited about a visit from her Aunt Susannah. Anytime we say "Aunt Susannah" she says "and Tyler too!!"

Claudia will go to the SHS cross country banquet next week. She has her hat ready.

I'm Ready!!

Claudia went to the Seymour soccer game today. Daddy forgot his keys to get in the school which was very bad!! Claudia was very upset.

Tonight we go for pizza. We just talked to Mimi on the computer which was fun for Claudia. She is getting much more comfortable on the phone.

She is also much more "2 years old" but that is a story for another time.

We have returned from our weekend trip to Boston to visit Claudia's godmothers. Claudia had just about the best time ever.

First of all we got to stay at a HOTEL. This was really fun. She had a pool to swim in, a hallway to walk in, a bed to bounce on, and a nice restaurant to have breakfast in. She even called Mimi from the hotel because she was so excited.

The next day Elizabeth took Claudia to the Boston Children's Museum. Claudia exhausted Elizabeth as they traveled through all the exhibits. Claudia especially liked riding the horse and playing with all the water.

That night we went to Bertucci's for pizza. Claudia was a very good girl and sat between Elizabeth and Kerry. After dinner her friend Kristen gave her her first lesson in nail polish and Claudia listened very intently.

It will probably be the last time we travel for awhile so it was great to have so much fun.

Claudia had fun tonight as Harley the Horse. Harley is her favorite horse at Mimi's house. She can list all the horses and dogs that Mimi has.



She practiced trick or treating this morning which was a good sign that the costume would get on. At about 5:30pm we went back to see Noah and Leah which was fun. Daddy carried Claudia back so she wouldnt tire her foot out.



We then headed over to Aunt Patty's and Uncle Mark's house where we saw Grandma as well. We went to three separate houses and did real good at each one.

Claudia is having lots of fun playing with her Grandmother. They have been reading and visiting places all day. We went out for pizza for lunch and they also went to look at pumpkins this afternoon.

I will post photos and videos later.

Mimi's here!

Update: X-Ray was negative. She is a trooper.

2nd Update: Well, it is broken. No cast. Went to orthopedist today (Wednesday). Apparently she is having a bad day all around so she did not appreciate going to the doctor either. She is very patient.

Claudia fell while playing "Ready, Set, Go" and racing on the front walk. We went to the doctor today and we have to go for X-Rays tomorrow on her foot. Hopefully its not broken.

She is a tough kid!

Claudia had lots of fun at her friend Lauren's birthday party on Sunday. She had a hot dog for the first time and liked playing downstairs in Lauren's "kitchen".

Today she went to the league cross country meet to watch Daddy work and see all her friends run. She calls them the "happy girls". Her favorites are Olivia and Carrie.

Claudia likes her shapes. She asks us to draw them whenever we color. So I say "Claudia-what shape do you want me to draw??"

Claudia: "Hexagon!!".

Me: "Uh, Kasey, how many sides on a hexagon?"

I have a feeling she will keep us on our toes.

Tonight we saw Thula Sizwe in concert. They are a group that is touring the country as they visit from South Africa. We saw them in town at a church. They were very good and Claudia enjoyed it very much.

Claudia has had several birthday parties to attend so she is quite the social animal this week. She is also quite obsessed with her favorite part of the week: Monkey Business. She goes every week and plays with her friends (Timmy) and on the slides and sings songs (Itsy Bitsy Spider). She probably asks to go to MonKey Business 200-300 times per day. Money well spent I guess.