Claire

My little girl is simply beautiful even with her frown. She is terribly shy and refuses to talk if anyone is in the room that she isn't comfortable with (this include almost everyone even people she knows). If she does need to communicate while other people are around for some reason she can't use words and just grunts. It's so annoying. Sometimes she'll eat good other times she will only eat if she is sitting on my lap or Timmy's lap. Once again rather annoying but when a kid is as small as she is you do what you have to in order to get them to eat. She is still obsessed with strawmilk with fiver (strawberry milk and fiber). We still keep her fiber intake on the high end and it helps with all her issues.

She doesn't like having her hair fixed because with all her curls it gets tangled and then it hurts her when I comb it. Most of the time her hair is falling in her face and if I tuck it behind her ear she grunts and pulls it back into her face. She gets food in her hair on a regular basis which adds to the difficulty in combing her hair. She hates going to bed with wet hair and won't lay down on her pillow when it's wet.

Bedtime is hilarious with her. She'll go to bed when we tell her almost always without tears. I have to sing her 2 songs (Child of God and Stories of Jesus), turn on her fan, turn off her light and lock her door. Then she plays happily in her room for at least an hour then puts herself to bed. If we don't lock her door she will open her door and lock it then go back in her room to play.

She tears everything to shreds (we call it "going hamster"). Books, papers, her pink curlers, etc. She is very particular about her toilet paper - it has to be 3 squares folded into a square or she gets mad at me and throws it away. She likes to pick out her own outfits and doesn't like to be told what to do. She wears her princess or Tinkerbell flip flops everywhere. She thinks that anything pink belongs to her no matter what it is. She corrects the way I say things if I don't put enough emphasis on the part of the word she thinks it should be on and she will say "mama say this...the say the word how she thinks it should be said".

She truly thinks her name is Claire Bear and gets mad when I shorten Sophie's name. Usually telling me her name is Sophie Jane. The girl is a total crack up. I sure hope she grows out of some of her shyness.