Claire's World

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

LaDew Gardens

A few weekends ago Claire had an awesome opportunity to not only hang out with Auntie J BUT to visit her first topiary garden! Way cool, right? Well she LOVED it! Although I am pretty sure she would love anything she did with Auntie J <3. Anyway, she took her "own" camera and shot some of these pictures herself :-) I apologize for the graininess of the photos but the camera is hers for a reason and CLEARLY the date stamp is wrong as well. Otherwise she is a HUGE almost 1 year old ;-)

Monday, April 16, 2012

Gymnastics

Claire has been taking gymnastics now for a under 2 years. She started out as a "tot", a class for 2's and 3's. This past January, she began the "beginner's" classes for 4-8 year olds. She truly LOVES it! This is her second 8 week session and she is really doing well. Here are some pictures of this week's class. I do apologize for the graininess, as I do not have a "high powered zoom" and we were not allowed to stand neat the areas where they practice. Just in case you can't see her, she is the one in the green shirt and black leggings.

Warming up!

Skipping!!

S T R E T C H I N G

Touching her toes(check out those straight legs)!

The trampoline(one of her favorites!)

Somersaults!

Backward rolls

Waiting patiently for her turn.

Practicing her tuck, pike and straddle!

Flips!

She LOVES to do flips on the bars!

Backwards on the beam.

Just missed get "big" jump off :-(

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Claire turns FOUR!!

Amazingly, four years have passed. And no matter what I tell her about staying young forever, she continues to get older :-( She is 4, it is a bit hard to believe for me, really hard to believe. Even though the pictures are a bit out of order they are spectacular. We sincerely grateful to our family and friends who came over to help us celebrate this AMAZING day :-)