Spray Ground, Petting Zoo, and Baccu!

Last week we met two of Claire's Kindermusik friends at a nearby "spray ground."  I tried taking Claire a few weeks ago, but she hated it and wouldn't let me put her down.  This time was slightly better.  She played for a few minutes but was pretty clingy after that.  I imagine that she will love it next summer.

Claire with her friend Michael

Claire really enjoys the petting farm part of the zoo.  She likes to walk around to all the different animals (mostly goats).  She even wanted to give them all a kiss!

We're working on getting her to go up and down the steps by herself. 

And here is a picture of me last week, at 26 weeks pregnant.  Currently at 27 weeks, Baby Boy is approximately 2 pounds and 14.5 inches from head to toe.  He'll be here before we know it!  His furniture has arrived in the Atlanta warehouse.  As soon as we get the guest bed moved out, we'll have it delivered and start getting nursery #2 ready!

And finally a video.  This is Claire's reaction to the vacuum cleaner (pronounced "Baccu!").  She gets very excited and very loud when I turn it on.  In this particular case, Claire is distracted halfway through by her Mickey Mouse towel drying in the bathroom.  Claire has a new fascination with Mickey which is strange because she's never seen him on TV and the only thing we own with his picture is this towel.  After our adventure at the spray ground, Claire noticed that her towel and Michael's towel both had Mickey pictured.  Her first pronunciation sounded like "newman."  Now it's transformed into sounding more like "money," which is pretty ironic.  I'll give the Sesame Street and Disney people credit--for a child who doesn't watch TV, she sure is taken with particular characters!