Those darn purple "socks"

Yesterday when Heather got Clara up from her nap, Clara was wearing those purple knit booties that Grandma gave her a while ago and had them stuffed into her crocs. She insisted that she needed to wear these for the rest of the afternoon. Why not, they were comfortable enough to sleep in! By the end of the day, her feet had knitted creases in them and had to be DARN hot considering it was almost 90 degrees outside and she ran around eating an apple and going down a slide in them for over half an hour. She almost seemed relieved to take them off at the end of the day. This post is reminding me that I should find them and HIDE them. No ones needs to be wearing purple handknitted booties in shoes while running through the sprinkler in summer! Her obsession with crocs is more than enough for one person to deal with :). She loves the fact that we have the same matching gold mary jane crocs. I myself love them but Clara has taken that love to a new obsession. She wears them all the time. With pajamas, fancy feet or not and apparently they are also great to nap in. They watch her from her stool at night while she sleeps. On her right foot, she has Dory and Nemo Jibbitz. And on her left foot, she has a Daddy Car (Lightning McQueen) and a Mater and a C (Insert ridiculous smile here). They are her constant summer companions. I am glad she likes them!

Finger Man and DaDADA

Ellis started really babbling in the last couple of days. It is pretty funny. Matt was the one that got him to really do it. He was saying Dadadada to him and he repeated it. He also has his own version of Yayayaya. He does this funny thing with his tongue. Last night in the middle of the night, he started to babble and he was a bit looney this evening doing it.

He also loves to discover things with just his pointer fingers. He was doing that the other day when Matt brought his a new toy and he had his fingers ready to go. Just his pointer ones. He likes to touch the details of things. Matt said it was like a Mars Probe the way he had his fingers at the ready to to touch things. It is the perfect comparison!

May

Before the month of May disappears, I better get a blog in before I forget what is going on! Clara is ALMOST in her big girl bed. About two weeks ago Matt and I were talking about getting a dresser for her room and we commented that we needed to get her to sleep in her big girl bed before we had room for a dresser in there since a crib and a bed takes up a lot of room! Well we were in Ellis' room and Clara ran into her bed, curled up and asked to sleep in there. And she did! The whole night without a peep. The next day, her nap did not happen in there but I did create a chart with fishy stickers. For each time she sleeps in her bed without crying or screaming, she gets a sticker. For 7 stickers, a prize! Things are going OK, though today for her nap and right now, at night, she is in her crib. Not sure that that regression is about! It might just be easier to take out the crib and not give her the option. We'll see what we can do.

Onto Ellis news, he is in the complete octopus arm stage. He is so quick and grabs about everything he can. Clara is getting a taste for what really having a baby brother is like, he always wants what she has!

Clara is really into her Snowball cat right now. She likes to bring it everywhere she goes and this evening she actually kicked Ellis because she thought Ellis was going to touch Snowball. I don't think she intentionally wanted to kick him but they were on a blanket in the yard and when he went for it, she kicked her feet in anger and he got in the way. He cried.

Ellis really likes to roll around now. Changing his diaper is a bit more difficult because the first thing that he does when his diaper is off is roll over. He has not quite figured out how to get to a specific destination while rolling but he can get around. It won't be long before he is crawling I think. Feeding him is going OK. He really thinks he can feed himself which is frustrating because it is not the most efficient of CLEANEST way to do it. Sometimes he east something but other times he gets so frustrated nothing happens but a good old fat tantrum. He still nurses like a champ though!