Claudia rebounded on Thursday and was able to go to see Peter, Paul and Mary with Mommy.  It was a truly special night that I (mommy) am so grateful to have shared with her.  We both got all dressed up, dresses, necklaces and bracelets.  We also had our hair done at Claudia's beauty salon in her room.  As soon as we found our seats we found out that the lady next to us was named Claudia as well!  Claudia thought that was really neat and opened up to her right away, showing her everything from her shoes to bracelets.  

The concert was great, and they sang all the songs that Claudia knew so we were lucky.  I thought she was going to jump out of her seat when they started singing Puff!!!  She did a lot of clapping and singing.  It was so great to experience this with her as I remember them from my childhood.  Three generations enjoying Peter, Paul and Mary!!  That is amazing in itself.  She lasted about 2 hours which was perfect and we got out before the crowds.  Since then we have been playing a lot of Peter, Paul and Mary games :)  

Claudia has been pretty sick the past few days with a cough and a bit of a fever.  She didn't go to dance class yesterday and we are hoping she improves.  Claudia and Mommy have big tickets to see Peter, Paul, and Mary on Thursday.

Claudia is really excited to go to DisneyWorld.  Now, we don't have any plans to go, but she is excited anyway.

She is sleeping a ton.  She often sleeps from 9:00pm-10:00am.  Even 11:00am some days.

Claudia has been having lots of fun at various activities.  Her favorite activity right now is to play dance class at home.  We do that a whole lot.  Claudia knows the names of all the kids in her class.

Claudia is a turtle.

She got this yesterday.  

On my iTouch there is a matching game which is very similar to the traditional game using cards.  Claudia does very well at this and completes the screens quickly, much quicker than me.

So I'm taking my turn and I am struggling:

Daddy: "I'm not doing so well"

Claudia: "its OK Daddy, just take it real slow and you will do fine"

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".

Claudia is spending New Years Eve watching Live from Lincoln Center. She seems to love it. She also loved watching the Barck Obama recap on the news. Now shes watching the Tiger Woods recap with Mommy.  Big party.

Molly loved the NYPhil as well. She was intently watching (even stopped her from crying).

Today Claudia is Aunt Susannah. She is spending the whole day as her. Sometimes Mommy is Mimi, but currently Daddy is. Aunt Susannah says Tyler is at work making his cookies and brownies for the party.

Aunt Susannah is asking me to come in because its time to feed all the dogs.

Last night Claudia had her first birthday celebration and had really nice cake! We think we might go bowling tomorrow.

Claudia Quotes today:

As she is making bread pudding: "Silly Daddy, I'm not a chef, I'm a cook". "A chef's hands must stay clean!"

"Daddy, I don't think we should start a fire tonight because Santa will come down the chimney and I don't want him to burn".

Claudia had her dance performance today. She really enjoys dance and working with Miss Rachel and Miss Jonelle. It was a fabulous performance as

you can see.

Claudia made Fruit-Bread Pudding tonight.  She did all the mixing and measuring.  It was really good!

Also notice our clustrmap on the right got reset.  Lets fill it up again.

One day Santa stopped by while Claudia was eating cake. Santa tried to distract Claudia from eating cake. It was no use! Claudia was going to finish her cake!