When I undressed Clementine yesterday morning to get her dressed I found a Lego gun in her pant leg that had been stuck on her knee all night long and this is what it made...
I think I would have been so uncomfortable with that pressing on my knee all night, but I guess there's nothing a nice layer of chub won't take care of...not that I'm thin or anything...yet.
Clementine hanging out with handsome bearded Daddy at the zoo. Look at those dimples!
Clementine is my favorite child right now, there's no doubt about it. Many people have a favorite child, which I think is horrible, but so far I just have favorite ages. Whoever is two or under OR five and older I like the best. Can someone come over and take Bea until she turns 5 please? She is definitely hard on everyone. Clementine can melt your heart with her pigtails and gibberish. She has big blue eyes and a chubby, squeezable body. She is easy in every sense and is so gentle and kind. She loves playing with her baby doll and copies what I do with Violette. She loves to come give sweet hugs and kisses to the baby and spends most of her time arranging her baby doll on her stroller along with her blankie and pushing her around the house. If she's not doing that, she's eating enormous amounts of food or sleeping. She hardly ever cries, except when she gets hurt or Bea takes her stuff, in which case, she yells out, "mine!" which is so cute and makes me laugh every time and also makes the kids laugh. She's my first kid to say that word at such a young age. She likes to laugh and can fake laugh whenever she wants to, usually at the dinnertable with tons of food on her face. We can't wait to watch her grow up from being 18 months to 2 years old. It's such a fun process to witness. I love you my sweet Clemmie Boo!
Mommy with her three girls in matching swimsuits. I just love my girls!
Playing at the Museum of Natural History with Aunt Kris and Bea
Aunt Margie was especially fun and attentive to Clementine.
Clementine hasn't increased her vocabulary in quite a while but just recently she's pulled out a few words that seem to be way more difficult than the normal first words kids start with. Here she is saying dance as she dances in her car seat. She also says books and shoes. She has been referred to as "a little ball of sunshine" which I totally agree with.
Clementine was banging on the computer key board last night and all of a sudden the screen was rotated 90 degrees...and we can't figure out how to fix it. Anyone have any ideas?
Clementine is my first child who is legitimately afraid of certain things. I knew her Birthday candle scared her, but she is deathly afraid of campfires and wants to sit on my lap at all times, plus I found out that she is extremely afraid of bugs. Bea got a butterfly farm for her Birthday from friend Ella and I was so excited to let the kids put them on their fingers and watch them fly away, so each of them got a turn to do it and when I put a butterfly on Clementine's finger she screamed in horror with the most terrified look on her face. This is not normal in our family. Both sides are serious insect lovers so it might be a gene mutation. I didn't get a photo of Clementine screaming, so here's Bea holding a butterfly and loving every minute of it.
If you see Clementine right now you would probably think she was a neglected little orphan fending for herself on the streets. She fell down the stairs twice in the course of 1 hour(first times ever), making her upper lip bleed the first time and giving her a big scab under her lip the second time, then she got a super snotty cold and of course I'm wiping it all day long her face is all red and raw. Then yesterday during a BYU game party at my sister-in-law's which is infested with yellow jacket hornets, Clementine was doing such a great job at eating a piece of corn on the cob, just minding her own business in her booster seat when all of a sudden she started screaming bloody murder and I saw a drunken looking hornet flying away from her direction. Obviously one had landed on her corn and she bit down on it without noticing and it zapped her. Her poor little lip swelled up so huge, more than any time she ever had a fat lip from falling on it, which compelled Justin to get some Benadryl for her and her lip was still really fat until today during church when it seemed like it went down a lot. I almost cried because she was in so much pain and I knew she was still so hungry but was to distraught to eat anything. It still looks a little swollen but only I could really tell at this point. My poor little orphan baby:(
*Update* Since I didn't publish this right away she had another noteworthy tumble on our hike around Silver Lake. She got off balance somehow and fell backwards over the railroad ties that kept the path from sloping and did a complete head over heels into the dirt. Luckily she didn't get hurt or even cry which impressed the twenty or so people who saw her. She is a tough girl!
Purple blankie wrapped around her head as usual
Here at Oktoberfest Klementine slept much of the time and when she woke up she was feeling a little shy so she wrapped her blankie around her head so she could hide from all the people who usually gawk and want to talk to her and refused to go anywhere without it.
I love her chubby happy expression and her little hand on the side. Heinrich and Klementine:)
I think I would have been so uncomfortable with that pressing on my knee all night, but I guess there's nothing a nice layer of chub won't take care of...not that I'm thin or anything...yet. 
