There are so many things I love about my Clara Beara. She is funny, she is full of life, she loves to dance and read and jump and play pretend instruments and ride her Plasma Car in the backyard. She loves to use her binoculars (both the ones we made out of toilet paper rolls and her pretend ones she makes with her hands around her eyes) to look for things around the house.
What I love most of all right now are her words and her singing! I wanted to write them down so I don't forget.
I love how she says gorilla ("go-wri-wra") and caterpillar ("cat-er-pi-wrar") and kitten ("kittnen"). She has no problem saying rhinosceros or hippopotamous or kangeroo. She says so many big animal names well, but those pesky r's and n's give her some trouble :).
Oh and she also used to say Buttercup ("Buh-yer-cup")! It's part of a book we read together, and it always makes me smile when she says it.
And books, oh man, she memorizes books so quickly! It only takes one or two read throughs before she knows the short books, and 4-5 read throughs for the longer books. She loves her books and is almost a little too possessive of them.
When she was a baby, she used to say yogurt as "yoh-yoch" it was adorable! And she used to say "sunna" instead of "going to" or "want to" -- so she would say "Mama sunna eat it" if she wanted me to eat something, or "Clara sunna do!!!" if she wanted to do something.
She also sings beautifully in the car along to her toddler tunes, both the classics and the Christian classics. She sings both the melody and harmony, both in her normal voice and in falsetto, and does so mostly on pitch! She will sing along with the music and when it goes up past her normal register, she sometimes sings even louder and her little voice cracks as she stretches her voice. It's absolutely adorable!
Oh and for a little while, when she first started singing along to the songs in the car... she would sing, "Mary had a little man" and I just laughed and laughed and laughed!
She dances with her whole body to her favorite songs, and she plays pretend drums, or her tamborine, to the beat of the music. She loves the song, "Jesus Loves the Little Children" and asks for it constantly. She is learning new songs at preschool and brings those home to sing too!
When her cousin Nate comes over, they like to jump up and down screaming "Hulk Huss Game!" which was originally "Hulk Hulk Smash." You can guess who came up with the original saying :).
Recently, she's learned to draw by herself with chalk, and loves to draw circles and lines and shapes. There is so much more, but this is what I can think of right now. Clara is amazing and bright and wonderful! She is my joy and my love and one third of my heart (Shane and Audrey are the other two thirds!)
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