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Sunday, January 13, 2008 We have now had Claire for over one year and it feels fantastic to say that! Being at the 13 month mark means that we have no more “first holidays” with Claire. We have experienced them all! Last year we were still recovering a bit from the trip and getting to know each other so we didn’t take part in a Chinese New Year celebration, but we are looking forward to that for this year. We have our lanterns and both girls have red traditional dresses ready for the occasion. Christmas was wonderful and Claire enjoyed it to the fullest. She got to see a whole bunch of her cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, grandmas, grandpas, and even great-grandmas and a great grandpa. We are blessed to have a very large extended family on both sides. Every present was a huge hit and she never forgot that it was “Jesus’ birthday cake.” (Her way of saying Jesus’ birthday!) Laura got an I-Pod shuffle for Christmas and Claire has been borrowing it and walking around the house singing Hannah Montana songs and songs from the Broadway show Wicked. (A show about what happened in Oz before Dorothy arrived.) She still loves musicals. We took her to see Enchanted twice and the second time she was trying to sing along with the songs. Claire also got a Hannah Montana doll from our good friends the Lowerys and she loves to sing along with it too. Hannah Montana is quite popular at our house! (Much to the chagrin of our boys.) Since Claire turned 3 in October, she loves to ask people their age. Instead of asking “How old are you?” She asks, “What’s your number?” At Christmas she was asking a lot of people “their numbers” and she asked James’ father, “Papaw, what’s your number?” When he truthfully answered her, she turned and looked back at the rest of us with her hands on each side of her face and said, “That’s a big number!” The kids have gone back to school now, and Claire has adjusted to being an only child for a few hours a day again. She really enjoys having them home. While waiting to pick-up Connor in the car-pool lane at school one day the temperature was 14 degrees with a wind chill of 6! I told Claire, “Look at that silly Connor. He doesn’t even have his jacket zipped up.” She looked over at him and said, “Yeah, that crazy Connor needs to put his roof up too!” It was a good day for a hood! She keeps us laughing for sure.

Excited for Santa to come! Dancing with her Hannah Montana doll.

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