Claire is still the most dramatic and difficult of our children. But she is also the most grateful and physically loving of the kids. She enjoys being a helper and working together with anyone in the family and has become a much better picker-upper during chore time. The biggest obstacle we've been trying to overcome is her eating habits. She has been very picky and she has thrown the biggest tantrums over food. But as she gets older she has learned to power through the food she doesn't like so she can get it over with. She and I have had a lot of fun on Tuesdays (when Ruth and Will are at a class at the Explora Museum) playing with all the exhibits and spending some alone time. She hasn't shown much interest in mathematics yet, aside from playing with the manipulatives that we have. But she is proving to be as precocious as Ruth in the reading arena. She knows all the upper and lower case letters and the sounds they make. This week she has started sounding out words, essentially reading ... her first word was "kids." She has also finally mastered her colors and knows most of the shapes. Claire loves going to primary; she has the most wonderful teacher and a great little girl friend in her class. She is also still totally in love with babies of all kinds and has really started the make-believe stage where every day she is a different animal (today it was a wild hunter dog puppy from a documentary we watched).
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