LONG car trip

We just got back Rochester, a trip we decided to DRIVE in our new minivan. Clara was a perfect angel on the drive out there. She did so well. Mostly because she got to watch TV for the first time. She LOVES "Finding Nemo" and asked for it each time we sat in the car. Neno Neno Neno! She LOVED it. We did not even have to have the sound on for her, she just watched the fish swim around.

The only problems we had on the trip besides being in non-baby proofed houses was the sleeping situation. Right now, Clara does not do too well when she is sleeping in the same room as us. She wakes up in the middle of the night, sees us and thinks it is time to play! It started when we were staying at the Jenkins' place. Clara woke up in the middle of the night crying and I picked her up because she was crying and I did not want her to wake anyone else up. I brought her into bed with us and she did not lay down. She pretty much labeled all the parts of our bodies she knows and thought it was play time! I brought her downstairs and we sat in a chair for 2 hours where she eventually fell asleep in my arms and only slept for about two hours. It was pretty brutal. She did it again when we were in Canandaigua for our "vacation". We were in the same room and we woke up to Clara saying "Daddy hug" around 2 AM.

Other than those issues, Clara had a lot of fun. We had Grandpa's retirement party, Clara got to go on a museum trip and Grandma and Grandpa and we went on our first lake vacation with Clara. Clara LOVED playing at the beach and was so exhausted from it, she slept for about 4 hours!

ABCs and 1 to 10

Clara is talking SO MUCH now. There is basically no word that she is willing to conquer and she learned most of her ABCs and can recite them mostly. She tends to do ABCDFGHIKPRSTUVWXYZ. She can also do 1-10 perfectly all on her own. I had no idea she would pick it up so quickly. She actually wanted to learn it and asks me to sing the alphabet son all the time. We were in Rochester and she said 1-10 in front of practically everyone. Everyone was so impressed!

Molars are IN!

After many many many months of thinking they are coming in, they are officially in and Clara has been SUPER cranky over how much it has been hurting her. So much so, that sometimes she gets so upset, she won't even open her mouth for Tylenol. She has had her hand in her mouth constantly for the last week. The first "real" one to come in is her left bottom one. I thought the top ones were going to break first but they half broke through and have stayed like that for a while now. That bottom one is completely through now and the one on the left hand side is sure to follow soon. These one year molars are a disaster! I can't even imagine how uncomfortable it is for her. The poor thing. She sure has been a hand ful lately. She says No way too often now. You ask her anything, even if she wants it and her first reaction is to say No. It is quite lovely really.