Science Museum

Our trip to the museum was pure bliss for our little dinosaur enthusiast. Claire has big plans to be a paleontologist. Apparently that happens when she turns nine. Claire also enjoyed many other exhibits and shows. Lunch up on the sixth floor was a hit and we watched two trains roll by - another passion of hers. It was a good day and she's already talking about going back soon.

Dentist

Claire was a rock star for a cleaning and checkup at the dentist. She told her life story to the hygienist. However, she did not like the spit sucker.

Our little swimmer

Lately Claire has wanted to spend as much time as possible in the pool. She loves going to swim class and whenever we have house showing she asks if we can go to the community center. It's been a trip to see how far she has progressed in the last 8 weeks, from a kid skeptical of going into the water without Mom to one who is swimming to her instructors without any doubt. 

I look forward to seeing how far she takes this, perhaps she will find swimming as her passion in sports. Right now I will be happy if she learns how to swim well so she is safer in the water.  

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.