This past month Clara started walking! We thought she’d be walking earlier, based on her early start on crawling, but she still decided to beat her siblings by a month and walk before her first birthday! She still prefers crawling, since it’s faster.  Walking hasn’t really changed anything for us, since Clara was already getting into everything (she a good climber!), but it does mean cleaner clothes!

Clara’s first tooth popped through last month. Interestingly, it’s her left upper lateral incisor (instead of the usual upper or lower central incisors). Hopefully she just a bit out of order!

On Tuesday we had our family Valentine’s Day party, including cookie decorating, dancing, a few games of Hearts, card exchanging, reading a book about St. Valentine, and  gift finding. All the kids worked hard to make each other Valentines. We loved seeing their creativity and joy in their card-making. It was a fun party!

In art class we made Valentine’s Day trees.

Currently we are enjoying beautiful weather as we anticipate the start of hot season. In the early mornings we’re so cold with the upper 60 degree temperatures. Thankful for this season of rest before we get into the exhaustion of heat.