Claire = 9

Favorites
Color: I don't have one
Food: Nachos
Dessert: Chocolate covered gummy
Subject in school: Sign Language
Book: Rats of Nihm
Movie: I love all movies
Friend: Annika, Lidia, Talia, Zoe, Sophia.
Occurrence in the last year: Disneyland
Hobby: Art
Gospel principle: Family
Favorite thing about having your own room (she has only had it since Spring Break and will only have it for another month): I don't have to clean up after anyone else

Future
Car: Car that drives by itself and it has a house
Job: Dentist, doctor, artist, mother, gymnast, ballerina, actor
Residence: In a mansion close to Disneyland and Waterland (Waterland doesn't exist yet).
Husband (she told me to put that one and then told me not to put it): Don't have one.
Number of children: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (She wrote this.).

What are you good at? Art, gym, running, math, reading, playing, swimming, writing, begging
What do you like doing in your spare time? watching movies, swimming, drawing, sketching, painting
What's the best part about being in this family? Mom and Dad and Porfirio
A word to describe Claire: Nice.

Claire told her soccer coach that she had to stop playing soccer so she could "Follow her dreams." Her birthday present this year will help toward this goal: acting camp.
In the past 3 Sundays, Claire has given the talk in Primary at church twice (Elijah gave it the 3rd time.). This is partly because our primary is tiny and partly because Claire volunteers to give talks. She likes the spotlight. She writes her own talks, always using props, pictures, and spiritual experiences from her own life.
Claire is thoughtful, spunky, friendly, helpful, faithful, still a very stubborn and picky eater. Claire loves snuggles and listens to John Bytheway on Youtube every night when she falls asleep. She loves being read to and reading (when she finds the right book, or is incentive at school). She created stories and pictures in her many notebooks and the tips of her hair are already stiff and green with chlorine from swimming so much.

 Last Friday Claire invited her best buddies to her end-of-the-year/ birthday party. We met at a park that has water features and played with shaving cream, whipped cream, and balloons.

Other games: Untangle the arms

 and The Bootie Shake

Then we came back to our house to watch a movie (Moana), pillow fight, play musical pillows and eat pizza and ice cream pie.

Claire requested nachos for her birthday breakfast today. We settled on mac and cheese.