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Clara’s Thrift Shop Song
While we were thrifting for our Macklemore Thrift Stop Challenge, Clara decided to come up with her own thrifting-inspired song. Hers isn’t quite radio ready though – the only lyrics I can understand...
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What Passes For Normal Conversation These Days
We’re well into potty training with Clara (she sits on the potty regularly and occasionally there’s success). So it’s safe to say that she’s familiar with the concept and comfortable with the idea that...
View ArticleWhat’s That You Say?
As you know from the videos we share here, Clara is quite the talker. But lately she’s started the weird / funny habit of talking gibberish. It mainly happens when she’s playing by herself, almost as...
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Well Isn’t That Special
Clara’s preschool gives each kid a “Special Day.” It’s sort of like a birthday, but since not every child has a birthday during the school year you pick an arbitrary day for the kid to get some special...
View ArticleBurger’s Mr. Ed Audition
If you ever had any doubt that Burger could impersonate a talking horse, here’s proof that (except for his distinctly un-equine appearance) he’s got that moving-his-mouth-so-others-can-speak-for-him...
View ArticleDon’t Let Clara Name Your Baby
Maybe as a continuation of her gibberish phase, we recently overheard Clara giving her dolls a pretty unusual series of names. It’s like someone’s been teaching her a foreign language behind our backs…
View ArticleSomeone Takes After Her Mother
Clearly someone’s been noticing her mother’s fondness for “phone dates” with her long-distance friends. And FYI – the “Mary” she’s talking to is Marian, our babysitter during our Charlotte book tour...
View ArticleEvery Girl Deserves Her Own Wind Machine
I don’t know why I love this video. It was a fairly ordinary moment (it was hot in the car, so we rolled down the windows). I guess it’s the first time we’ve done it since Clara had any hair to speak...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Distress Call
It’s been fun to see Clara’s imagination grow over the last year. More and more she’s content playing with her animals, dolls, or even crayons just making up some story and talking to them. But it...
View ArticleAn Oldie, But A Goodie
We had a narrow miss computer crash earlier this week (that’s the bad news) which meant we had an excuse to peruse old pics and videos as we restored some files (that’s the good news). Among them, we...
View ArticleClara Petersik, Storyteller
The other day at the dinner table we asked Clara if she wanted to tell us a story. To our surprise, she said “yes!” and so we captured it on our phone. I’m not sure the narrative is flawless, but at...
View ArticleA Hypothetical Book Thief
Clara often reads books in the car (our faves are a big stock of Berenstain Bears books that we inherited from Sherry’s childhood because they’re thin and Clara seems to love them). But often if she’s...
View ArticleWe Built This City
One of our favorite things about Clara is how she randomly bursts into song (like both of her parents). It never ceases to crack us up. Her latest musical number was Starship’s “We Built This City”...
View ArticleEveryday Burger
I’ll be the first to admit this video of Burger isn’t very exciting. But in so many ways it captures the way we see him everyday. I was actually trying to take a picture of him, but accidentally had my...
View ArticleClara Tales
Clara’s quite the storyteller these days, and she loves when I record her tales so she can watch them back. Here are a few that I captured a few weeks ago for her. I love: how they always start in a...
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