Rats

On Monday, May the twenty-ninth, Clara Grace’s mommy made conversation with her daughter on the way home from a long trip of errands. “When we get out of the car, do you want to take a bath?” “No,” Clara Grace responded from her car seat. Always enjoying the thrill of outwitting a one year old, and knowing his daughter’s fondness for the word “no,” Clara Grace’s daddy then asked slyly, “Are you sure?” “Without a second’s hesitation, Clara Grace answered definitely, I’m sure.”

Calls it as She Sees It

On Monday, May the fifteenth Clara Grace sat on her Daddy’s lap while her mommy washed dishes across the house. Apparently Clara Grace felt the injustice of a rule being broken as her parents conversed across the space of the living room and over the noise of the running water. “Too loud!” she announced with finality.

So PAY!

On Saturday, May the thirteenth, Clara Grace’s mommy and daddy began to notice a strange form of pig latin creeping into their daughter’s vocabulary. Suddenly, once easily understandable words such as soap, no, and shoe, needed decoding. Thankfully the key was fairly simple; draw out the first part of a one-syllable word, then add “ay” very enthusiastically onto the ending. This created words like, “Soapay, shoeay, noay, noseay.” (Soap, sounds like So-PAY! for example.)

Birding Baby

Clara Grace shared her mommy and daddy’s hobby of bird watching even from an early age. She quickly developed the ability to recognize and identify three birds in the wild by their calls. When Clara Grace heard a crow, she exclaimed "Co, co!" When a Blue Jay flew over our yard and made its call, she jumped up excitedly and shouted, "Jay jay!" And whenever she heard the sad song of the morning dove, she informed her mommy, "Duh, duh!"

One...Two...THREE!

Clara Grace climbed nimbly to the top of her new slide time after time. Once at the top, she had a habit of getting her mommy’s attention by calling “Two, two, two…” until her mommy finally got the hint that it was her job to watch and count to three.