Hanging out with Granny and Grandad

Had a nice walk in the park today. Grandad impressed us all with his animal-knowhow. He had the birds and squirrels eating Clara's crackers out of his hand. (They're not really crackers, they're like rice cakes, but made with corn - Clara loves them and so did the birds.) Clara was really interested in the squirrel, she'd never seen one before.

Clara used her 'bear' sign for the first time today when she was reading a book. She's now using signs for 'milk', 'all done', 'more', 'caterpillar', and 'bear'. And of course 'yes' and 'no' and 'hello' and 'goodbye'.

She's not been feeling well the last week or so. She had a cold a few weeks ago that seemed to get better and then it came back even worse than before. She's also teething - her first upper tooth came through this week. And we went to the doctor yesterday and she said that she also has a slight ear infection. So between all of these things, she's feeling rather miserable.