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Happy Halloween!

Claire do it

Delay of game while Claire puts on her shoes.

Fashionista

"Let's go!" she says, adorned in a scarf of unrolled dog baggies, walking along the paver catwalk.

20 Months +

Finally have a growing Claire update after a several month hiatus. She sits in this chair often to read or just rock, but the elephant and my camera aren't at the ready.

Location:Clairview Ct,San Francisco,United States

Mixing Blueberry Muffin Batter

Today is crafts day at day care and Claire is helping mix batter for muffins. She seems to be concentrating very hard! I will have to enlist her help for home baking now that she's had some lessons!

Splendid Sunset

"Summer" has arrived in San Francisco and with it some fog-free evenings. Monday night, I found it hard to do housework with this sight out the back windows.

Claire and Paolo

Matt gave Claire a glimpse of what it's like to scoot. She happily sat on "Paulo" the red Vespa (aka MY Vespa). She was thrilled... until Matt sat with her and turned the key. That was a little startling!

Happiness

Handy and Helping

Claire has her own tool belt (Ikea) and this morning she helped Daddy examine the loose screws on the cold air return.

One Year Ago

I was looking for an old text message and stumbled on this photo and message from one of the young women who works at Claire's daycare sent on 7/22/10. I hardly recognize her!

"Claire's having a great day as per usual. I made her a pillow throne...she really enjoys being queen of the daycare."

Flying Trio

We have just returned from a whirlwind trip East. As expected, the flights were a gamble, but Claire did pretty well altogether. The return flight past her bedtime was the toughest but she eventually settled in and Matt and I could even relax, relatively speaking.

We managed to have the extra seat in all legs - toddler + back of plane is a pretty good formula to get people to avoid you on southwest and snag any extra seat. Claire even let me borrow her lamb for a pillow.

More to come from the fun parts of the trip!

Fog!

The amount of fog in our new neighborhood seems to exceed the fog we experienced in the Sunset. This was our "view" a couple weeks ago as a summer evening rolled on. Contrast it to a sunny day - http://mattsuz.blogspot.com/2011/04/oh-what-beautiful-morning.html?m=1.

Grandpa's visit

My dad came to visit in May after his time in Torrance with the Fujinagas. We took full advantage and put him to work on a retaining wall as well as Claire care. We hate to pass up free babysitting! Claire hoarded the Wheat Thins but shared her bunny crackers.

Father's Day 2011

It was a beautiful day in San Francisco with nary a cloud, very little wind and summery temperatures. We took as much advantage as possible. After a detour to some neighborhood open houses (getting renovation ideas), we hit the neighborhood playground.

Mini Car Rally

The daycare fleet has expanded!

Officer Claire

Patrolling the backyard at day care in the new cop car. Taking the job very, very seriously.

Brewer's Helper

Matt needed to "rack" the latest batch of beer on Sunday which first called for cleaning the carboy. Claire thought this looked like fun and volunteered to scrub.

One year, Four Months

New words: shoes, cracker (sounds like "taco"), apple, buddy, dada (old word, new meaning: banana) gesundheit (might have been a fluke, but 3 of us heard her), all done
New teeth: lots of molars
New activities: giving hugs and more coordinated kisses, sitting on laps unsolicited

Snapshots of Day C(l)a(i)re

We receive some adorable, amusing and silly photos of Claire sent to us most days. These are some of the most memorable from the last couple months.

After a bath, before dressing.

Excited for meatballs!

And another bath. This time with shades.

Ring Around the Rosy

I arrived at day care one Friday afternoon to see the remaining 4 children lying quietly on the floor. I don't know about other day cares but this was quite unusual! Ellen was playing ring around the rosy with each kid in turn and, best of all, they waited patiently(ish) for their turn. Quite a trick! And a dizzying workout for Ellen.