Girl's Day at MOSH

This weekend was a girl's weekend for Claire and I! Clay went camping at a state park outside of Orlando for the weekend with some friends from college. Quite a cold weekend for camping but he had fun catching up with old friends. Claire and I had some fun too!

Saturday morning we headed out to MOSH (Museum of Science & History) with my friend Amy & her daughter Addy. Addy is just a few months younger than Claire. We walked around the museum and even caught a Sesame Street planetarium show. The girls did really well during the show, and it was pretty loud and dark. There were a couple times that Claire said "I go bye-bye!" and "all done!" but she mostly enjoyed it.

Waiting for the show to start

Afterwards we had some lunch and said bye-bye Addy! Then Claire took an extremely long nap after all that fun.

Ladies who Lunch

Unfortunately the rest of the weekend was spent staying inside as we both got hit hard with horrible colds. We had fun relaxing and watching lots of movies... Baby Einstein of course.

The Cookie Song

So, Claire is most definitely our little cookie monster. She is obsessed with them, and yes I mostly blame her Ce-Ce for giving them to her.

Anyway, she now asks for a cookie after every meal, even breakfast. She even associates Publix with a free cookie. Every time I tell her we are going to Publix her immediate reaction is "I go in car!" and "I have cookie!". (car refers to the lovely cart in the form of a car that is the hardest thing in the world to steer).

The other day she was watching one of her favorite shows, Barney, when they started singing a cookie song! She now sings it ALL the time and I just can't help but laugh. The words are actually "Lookie, Lookie, it's a Cookie Cookie, A Cookie that I'm going to eat."

Claire's version is much better... Wookie! Wookie! It's a Cookie! Cookie!

So now after every meal, and even at random spots throughout the day our conversation is something like this:
Claire: Cookie please!
Me: No Cookies Claire
Claire: No Cookies?? Cookies please!
Me: No response
Claire: WOOKIE! WOOKIE! It's a COOKIE! COOKIE!
Me: No Cookies Claire, it's (insert: breakfast time, 11:00, 2:00, bedtime, etc.)
And trying not to laugh of course!


So does anyone know of any healthy cookie recipes????

The Zoo!

Ellll...aphant!

Today we spent a beautiful Sunday morning at the Zoo! Clay had been wanting to go for quite sometime, and today's weather was just perfect for it.

Feeding the giraffe!

Claire loved it as much as we knew she would! We walked through and said "HI!" to all of the animals, and then when we walked away from each of the exhibits she had to say "BYE-BYE!" to each of them. She was especially excited to see the elephants and the giraffe! She was mesmerized watching all of the animals and we had so much fun.

Look! Lions!

Big Hug!

So Claire is most definitely a hugger. There are some nights she just goes back and forth between Clay and I saying "give mama hug!" and "give dada hug!" over and over. We, of course, love every second of it!

After a busy morning we had just gotten home. It was close to nap time and I walked in on Claire in the guest room giving hugs to a picture frame! It just so happened to be a picture from a very long time ago of us, the Moreno's, and Clay's mom and dad at a local restaurant. I ran and grabbed the video camera and got lucky... lately she stops whatever she is doing as soon as she sees the camera.

Enjoy!



p.s. please ignore christmas wrapping paper that has not been put up yet. thanks.

Whirlwind Christmas!

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year! It was so much fun watching Claire enjoy everything this year. She loved spending time with family and was such a good girl. We have SO many pictures it was hard to narrow everything down... but this is basically our Christmas in a quick photo slideshow!