Claire

One of the most asked questions since we have been here is, "How is Claire?" Well, Claire is great! It took a couple of days for her to figure out that this is our new home and that we will be staying here for awhile, but now when we say home, she asks, "Our Ferndale home or our Mexico home?"

She loves playing with all of her new toys from Christmas and her new rice box. We also have been coming up with a few craft projects. It's just hard because when I find a craft to do, we don't always have the materials and finding them can be a wild goose chase. She absolutely loves painting and that can keep her busy for quite a while! I was trying to figure out what to do with her numerous paintings. I hated throwing them away, but didn't really want to keep them all either. So we created an Eric Carle-esque picture using several pieces of her art. I cut out the pieces and she glued them on the paper. This week we also found a birthday present for Grammy, but didn't have wrapping paper to wrap it with so we made our own. This was a great project as it took almost an hour to paint the paper! After it dried, she got to put stickers on it and I have never been happier for an excuse to use stickers. I get tired of wearing them on my clothes! She also recently has learned how to use scissors and she loves cutting up paper.

Overall, she doesn't seem very affected by the move. I would love to see her playing with more kids, but we need to find them first. I'm glad she can be outside more because she truly loves it. Our backyard here is very similar to home and she loves just running around.

I'm interested to see how she does with our upcoming trip back home in March. Hopefully, it doesn't confuse her and she is excited to come back "home".