fake cough

This week I've had a cold.  I started coughing tonight and Claire started fake coughing!  She thought it was so funny to copy me.  It was adorable!  That sweet girl makes me smile every day!

Another funny thing, now when Claire says "bye" she usually says "bye-ya!"  So today we were leaving Walmart and Claire started yelling "bye-ya! bye-ya!!" and waving to an old man in the parking lot.  He looked over at her, got a huge smile and waved back.  I think it made his day, and mine!  She is so friendly and is always saying hi or bye to everyone around her.  

the park

Lately we have been blessed with some beautiful 70 degree days!  Usually in the afternoon on such days we head to the park.  We are lucky to have one just up the street from us.

Claire's favorite thing at the park is the swings.  Whenever she is on the swings she is all smiles!

This last time she also tried climbing up the slide.

Then she crawls back and forth in this tube and loves having me walk back and forth to try and "catch" her.

Hooray for beautiful weather and park days!

I love it when...

hugs!

Claire comes up behind me (as I'm sitting on the floor), stands up, peeks her head around my shoulder and says "hi!" with a big smile on her face.  

I love it when I ask Claire for a hug and she wraps her arms around my head and usually gives me a big slobbery kiss too.

I love it when I bring Claire to our bed in the mornings and she somehow ends up sitting on our heads, or laying her head on top of ours, or just cuddling up to us.  

I love it when Claire stands all by herself and gets a huge smile on her face because she's proud of herself. 

I love it when Dan leaves for work and Claire says to him "bye da!" in her cute little voice.  

I love it when Claire covers her eyes and as she moves her hands away she says "booo!"

I love this 1 year old stage!  

Words

The other day I was thinking about all of the words Claire knows.  I wanted to write them down so I don't forget.  I love hearing her cute little voice!  At 13 1/2 months this is what she says...

"Dad" or "Da"- Claire loves her dad!
"Mom"- she likes to say this over and over as if she wants to ask me a question and then when I respond with "what?" she just keeps saying it.
"Hi" (occasionally she'll say "hello")- she loves to say hi, she is very friendly.
"Bye"- but even more than hi she likes to tell people bye.  Last week at Walmart as we were leaving the store she waved and yelled bye to every single cashier as we headed for the door.
"Up"- Claire loves when dad lifts her high in the air.
"No no no"- usually said as she is doing something she knows she's not supposed to.
"Na no"- which she says as she points to her nose.
"eye"- another word she loves to repeat over and over as she points to her eye or other people's eyes, or eyes of characters in books, etc.
"nana"- this girl could live off of bananas.
"mo"- meaning more, which she says while doing the sign for more.
"papa"- for grandpa.
"on"- usually said when she pushes buttons.
"dog"- I had no idea she even knew what a dog was, but last week as she was watching Baby Einstein on my phone a dog came running across the screen and she said "dog!"  I was like what???  She proceeded to call a few more animals dog as well though.
"bug"- her latest favorite word.  Claire started calling my friends' baby "bug" and now says it all the time.
"baa"- means bath, the best part of Claire's day!
"ball"- the one toy she knows the name for.
"uh-oh"- said when she drops something on the floor or last week when I stubbed my toe.
"boo"- said as she covers and uncovers her eyes.  It's adorable.

I think these are all her words.  We love watching her learn and grow!

Dan

I am always posting about Claire, so I decided I should write something about Dan!  Lately Dan has really gotten into being an entrepreneur on the side, his most recent idea is a math game called Arithmedice!  It's a great game to teach math and would make a good teacher gift too.  You can see it on Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Arithmedice-Math-Dice-Game/dp/B00INA8ZBA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393650538&sr=8-1&keywords=arithmedice

I'm not posting this in hopes that you will buy it, I just think it's great Dan got an idea and made it happen.  Yay for Dan!