Claire: 13 months

Weight: 22 pounds 4oz
(about the 75th percentil)
Height: 30 in
(just above the 50th percentile)

Claire is 13.5 months now and growing so fast. Some physically but mostly developmentally. She surprises Matt and I almost daily with what she's learning. 

She's walking and climbing on EVERYTHING these days. She loves to climb. She's also fascinated with standing on things. She loves to pull the pizza pan or cookie cooling racks out and stand on them.

She's obsessed with shoes. Getting dressed and changing her diaper really tick her off, but she begs to wear shoes. When we went to the mall, she was able to spot every pair of shoes. She'd reach for them and start saying "shhhs!!""

Claire is talking a lot! Here's some of the words she says:
dog, duck, quack quack, oo ah (monkey sounds), hat, uh oh, mama, dada, Nix, bye bye, night night, fish, no no...

I'm fascinated with how much she comprehends also. She will point to things when we ask her where's her [eyes, head, hair, nose, ears, etc]. She'll also bring me certain toys when I ask, like 'bring me your baby/monkey/fish/hat/horse, etc."

She does some really adorable things too like 'make sweet eyes' where she smiles and squints her eyes at you.  Also, when saying bye bye she'll blow kisses. Lately, it seems like she blows kisses at other things too. Like this morning there were animals on TV and shes started blowing kisses at them. She loves animals!

When you ask her where something is, she turns her hands up, looks around, and starts saying "ehhh?!!?"

Her favorite toy right now is her pink car that she got for her birthday. We do many many laps around the house in that thing every day.

She loves to hold my hand (really it's just my finger). She will walk up to me or whoever she wants to play with, grab their finger, then drag them to where she wants to go. Makes my heart happy to walk around with my little girl clinging to my finger.

She's really a lot of fun! 

We went to Dallas for Christmas and Claire loved playing with her cousins. I wish she could play with them more often.

 These girls loved eating O's together

 Claire shared her smocked dresses and polka dot shoes with her sweet cousin.

 Pa and Cookie got the girls matching chairs!

 Christmas eve pj's

 

Christmas eve service with Matt's whole family

 

 

 Happy girl walking in to church

Played so hard they passed out

We also met up with some friends at Bass Pro Shop to take a picture with Santa.

Claire wasn't a fan of Santa. She preferred coloring with friends and walking around much more.



I'm trying to use my camera more this year so that I have good printable pictures rather than just small iphone snap shots.  Claire always loves to play outside, no matter what the weather. One of those days, I figured I'd snap some pictures.