We have a swimmer!

Today we went to the Community Center for a couple hours. Claire had asked if she could go to practice for her Monday eve swimming lessons. We ran into a friend who has a daughter 6 months older than Claire who really likes to go under water.

Whether it was because of that or just that she was getting comfortable in the pool she went full board today and decided to submerge herself in the water. Once she did it the first time she was all over trying to actually swim, jumping off the side of the pool (and going under) and floating on her belly. We're still working on floating on her back.

She is very excited to go to swimming on Monday to show her teachers what she can do now.

She's a skater!

Claire and I went skating again this afternoon and we were both very excited when she learned she is comfy enough to skate on her own. We spent the next 60 mins skating around the rink. She had a few spills but didn't seem to mind one bit.

Skating

How do you know? I'm magic.

Claire continues to be amazed that I can tell when she is *insert habit here* and asks me, "how do you know, mom?".

My typical response has been, "I'm your mother, I just know".

I switched it up last night and responded with, "I'm magic".

She looked at me with a very funny face and said, "You're not a fairy, or a princess, or a queen. You can't be magic".

This evening, I responded with, "I am a witch".

To which she replied, "You're not a witch, mom".

I'm posting this so when she is *insert tough pre-teen/teen here* I can go back and say, at least at one point in her life she didn't think I was a witch.

Masterpiece

Claire is just finishing up a mural to be unveiled in honor of The Dinosaur Train. This required much whispering and planning for all these characters to fit in the allotted space. Nice work. Time to wash up now.

Star Light Star Bright

Tonight while putting Claire to bed we did star light, star bright.

I asked her what she wished for & she said "to be a doctor".

Needless to say, I was surprised. When I asked her why she ssid because she thought it would be interesting and that she thought it would be cool to hear a heartbeat.

Maybe our artist has a little scientist in her afterall.

Shiny the Pteranondon

Claire wore her Shiny costume from 9am - 9pm on Christmas Day. We think she likes it as she jumped off the stairs at Sandy's numerous times, flapping her wings as she "floated".