A Claire story

Claire and Allie love our neighbors Fred and Laverne.  They always come back from their house with a bag full of treats, including pretzel rods, a few cookies and peanut butter pretzels (aka cushions).  Fred told me that after Laverne gave them their usual treats, Claire asked her if she had any money. What a little stinker! 

Uncle Matt's Birthday

 Cake!  These kids sure love their sweets!  Claire takes the prize for the biggest sweet lover of all though!

 Typical Grammie!  She ends up dying of laughter at every family gathering.  She gets the rest of us going! 

Allie's crazy pigtails and Claire's baby

Claire loves to wear her bitty baby!  She will wear her over her jacket when we take a walks.  This photo was approved by Claire.  In the first round, the baby had it's head turned away and Claire noticed that her baby wasn't looking at the camera! 

Cousins!

 These kids love being together!  This was taken on St. Patrick's Day.  Pamma and Grandpa took the kids to see the Disney Spectacular show at the Rosemont Theatre! 

Duet

This isn't the best singing in the world, but I was finally able to to post a video!

A few recent pics

Sweet Claire's smile! 

She loves to get her nails painted!  Here she is showing them off as well as her tattoos.  She likes headbands and always wears them very low on her head.  It's all her own doing!

 Allie loves to paint with watercolors.  She does a great job using several colors and making different shapes. 

 Shamrock shakes!  Claire has been asking for one after being introduced to them by Pamma (busted!!) so I obliged!  I stole a sip of Allie's and it took me back to my childhood.  McD's really needs to get a smaller size though!

The girls and Napoleon meet the Easter bunny!

 I thought it would be funny to bring Nap to the mall with the girls for Pet's night.  It was certainly a little nuts! 

Yay for Matt!  He was such a trooper and took the girls to see all sorts of animals (birds, cats, dogs) while I stood in line with the crazy dog people around me.  Nap wasn't wild about the Easter bunny, but he did cooperate. 

Seusical

Matt took Claire and Allie to Naperville to watch Seussical at a children's theater.  He was impressed-they were super talented!

 Maddie and Dane enjoyed it too!

 Pics after the performance.  Claire was so into it!  Her favorite characters were the naughty monkeys!

 This one cracks me up because of Dane staring at the girl. 

Claire with the grinch

Concert at Woodfield with Miss Jodi

 Allie loves her Jigglejam class with Miss Jodi.  On a Friday, Miss Jodi was performing at Woodfield, so off we went.  The girls were very tired that day, but seemed to enjoy it!  In the pic above they are jumping to the song!

 Go girl!

Tired Claire = Momma's girl

Our snowman!

The girls loved creating frosty!

 He stuck around for a couple of weeks and we greeted him whenever we drove by!

Allie loved eating the snow.  She knows to avoid the yellow and dirty stuff!