Claudia is a great traveler and had a lot of fun over Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania.  Her Uncle Mark and Aunt Joan were there and she had lots of fun with them.

More stories later.  Pictures on flickr.

Claudia has been half waking up most night around 2-3am. I don't know if its because it has been colder or the heater kicks on or something. She has been going right back to sleep, usually. This is a bit odd as she normally never wakes up.

We went to the Cross Country banquet last night and we are going to a concert tonight so Claudia has been hopping from place to place. Next week we head out for Thanksgiving which she is really excited for.

Lately Claudia has been trying many more foods. Usually she is a decent eater but she has been more adventurous lately. She loves Egg Nog!

Claudia was the youngest kid at her friend Allison's birthday party this weekend.  She did real good, but it took a lot of brain power to keep up.  Everyone wrote their names on a bear for Allison and Claudia was very proud that she did it too.

Claudia visited NYC for the first time today.  She went to FAO Schwartz and then spent about an hour in Central Park.  Daddy took this photo of the two beauties bathing in the sun.

Claudia had a great halloween.  Pictures on flickr.  We had a nice little party, the weather was great, and all the kids seemed to have fun.

Mimi just finished a week up here in Connecticut and is travelling back to PA.  She was a bit sick the past few days sow e hope she feels better.

Claudia has had some fun playing Elmo games on the computer but she really did well yesterday helping Marcelino find his letters. The game involves finding letters on the keyboard as papers flutter to the "floor" on the screen. She picked this up very quickly and was pecking away in no time.

This morning around 5am she wakes up--hanging over her bed rail--screaming. She is an odd sleeper. She sleeps very well and consistently--but I think she moves around a lot.

Claudia is having lots of fun at both of her classes and is hopefully becoming more independent. This independent streak can be trying at times (no!) but she works very hard to be polite. Sometimes this builds up and she goes off the deep end (completely), but all in all she is very well behaved girl.

She is very excited that Mimi and Aunt Susannah are coming on Saturday to see her and Molly.

Claudia picked THIS picture to put on the website.

Signed by: claudia

Claudia fell off the couch yesterday, hit the table and got a really ugly bruise. It swelled up like a golf ball.

But, she is fine and tough. She went to her cousins baseball game and kept saying "Look at the boo-boo on my forehead!".

Claudia went to the Garlic Festival today and had a fun time.  Its been a warm weekend here (just like last year.....).

She rode the big swings on the rides!  You know, the swings on the end of a twenty foot chain that spins around.  She is a big girl.

Claudia can do H, A, T, O and a few other letters by herself.  She loves her tracing books.

Claudia is working very hard on her pre-school workbooks. She loves to write her letters. She can recognize upper case and lower case and can draw rough letters if we talk her through it. Mommy thinks she would do the workbooks all day if we let her. She focusses very, very well.

Every night as we get to bed Claudia will say "We better hurry up--it'll be Friday soon".  She always gets the day right.

One of her heroes is definitely Julie who runs on the cross country team.  After we turn the lights off at night she likes to hear stories and she likes to hear stories about Julie and how fast she runs.  

She is watching some news and recognizes Barack Obama and John McCain.  She points it out whenw e hear their names on the radio.

Today she went to Monkey Business and "only cried a little bit".  Hopefully that will improve.  She had a couple rough weeks being there by herself in big girl land.

Posted new pictures on Flickr.

We use this blog for many reasons, but I think the main reason is to keep a diary of what Molly and Claudia do. This is their "baby book". We know that friends and relatives (and random visitors) to this page are often viewing this from a large distance and can't always be here in person as much as they'd like to be.

We'd appreciate it if you would "sign the book" today and leave a note about who you are an where you are reading the blog from.

Thanks!

Claudia likes dance class.

Claudia had her first dance class today. She paid really good attention and came home and practiced everything. She had a really good time. She is much younger than the other kids.

She is a really good kid.