Fall

I'm super cute, huh?
Roaring and ready to go for Gymnastics Week 3
Doing stretches before we arrive
At the park
Following Sammy up on the big kid playground

Getting help from Sam, who is a great helper!


Sam checking out the chair
Clare following Sammy into the chair
Wearing my sunglasses before riding lessons

Clare's first riding lesson!

All by herself!
Clare and her cousin Jessica
Causing trouble
Clare and her cousin Jules!
Aunt Heather's presents!
Enjoying some yummy cake at her friend Sophie's party

Art supplies from Aunt Heather
A very wild painting session from this am


Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Stats

Clare's 2 Year Stats:

Weight: 25lbs (26th percentile)
Height: 33.5 inches (37th percentile)

She is doing great milestone wise, hitting or exceeding all of the milestones. She is still above average verbally (shocker:) but did fail one component of the visit.

The question was does Clare help clean up her toys? Answer: NO!

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY PICS!

Clare using Mrs. Potato Head's Lips
Clare and Sierra checking out a gift
Clare and Sierra checking out all of Clare's fun art supplies from Aunt Ginny and Aunt Jessica (and Uncle Jeff and Jeffy too)

Wild present opening time
Clare and Mommy checking out the great sticker books from the Gage family

Megan and Sophia watching the action
Steph and Megan having fun
Clare and her friend Sophia checking out the gifts
Clare and Aunt Steph



Clare, Sam the Man and Aunt Jess ("my Jess")
Clare riding the Zoobie Pet Aunt Steph bought her. He's a pillow and blanket!
Aunt Jess helping Clare hold the big gifts!

Clare checking out one of the fun gifts Sophia brought her

Bringing us the always popular Old El Paso beans for the party
Kelcie and Jess talking
Aunt Ginny (Ninny)
Sophia checking out the train ride
Noah and Sierra helping Clare with her YGG characters
Gavin observing the crazies
Sophia
Clare singing into the gift (which is now the LOUDEST toy in the house, the train moving into second) from OLD GREAT AUNT LISA. Who would have been just Aunt Lisa, but she clearly googles "loudest toddler toys" before making purchases.
Gavin checking it out
Tasting a YGG toy
Nana and Pop on the main computer and mostly Heather on the laptop. Behind Heather was all of the Richardson clan (minus Aunt Erin and Uncle JR, since JR had surgery on Friday they had to miss). Great Grandparents, Grandmama, Grandpa, Aunt Heather, etc. were all present for the Party!
Cake time!
Finally picking it up!
How Clare ate most of her cupcake...

Clapping for herself after she "blew" out the candles
Me holding Clare's hands down to avoid her touching the candles. She was very interested in the fire.

More clapping for herself:)


Checking out the directions before the party. It was a very hard temptation for Clare to resist

Great Grandpop Miller and Clare with her baby doll they gave her

YGG decorations
All of Clare's favorite people...
Clare watching Nana and Pop Pop on the computer as she plays peek-a-boo in her new chair!
Hiding in her new chair
Bringing her new pony and purse into the chair
Checking out her new horse that has a matching carry purse
New clothes from Nana and Pop Pop

Birthday Girl ready to Skype
Naked Birthday girl on Skype with Grandmama and Grandpa after she opened her doll house. She is loving all the characters! She played with her doll house for over 30 minutes yesterday, quietly in her room while I showered. She would have played longer, but I was nervous about how quiet she was being and thought for sure she was doing something bad:) She loves it!

Playing in the hosue
running with her balloons before decoration time!
Present from G3
Another awesome G3
Cute outfit from Great Grandma Vi and Great Grandpa Chuck
Clare laughing at the great card from Aunt Erin and Uncle JR! It sings a song from her favorite movie. It's sleeping tonight because Mommy has had to push the button 43 times in a half hour to make it sing, but it will wake up tomorrow:)



Daddy trying to get Clare to check out her new horse. Clare has a recent obsession with horses so we bought her a stick horse that makes sounds (or a stick unicorn to be more accurate). She loved it until we pushed the ear and it made noise. She then ran and screamed "NOOOOOO". She was scared of it most the morning until Aunt Becky taught her to ride!
Awww...hugs for the horse.
Clare waking up to birthday wishes from Aunt Becky
Chris riding the horse the night before

The house set up properly. Becky and I "snapped" it together and I insisted it be set up to the picture. :)




Clare had a wonderful Birthday! We had a day full of presents and friends! Clare was able to Skype with each of her grandparents and the whole family was able to sing her Happy Birthday, whether it be here in Jersey or in Cleveland/Cincy! She is one very, very lucky little girl!

We can't believe she is a TWO year old!