I've been asked to share Clara and Leo's current interests and sizes in order to help some generous family members spoil my kids this Christmas. I realized that this would make an excellent blog post, a moment captured in time if you will. So here goes...

Clara is 6.5 years old. She is a tall girl and wears size 7 or 8 clothes (mostly 7 unless it is made petite, then she'd be an 8). She loves crafty things, she desperately want to be able to knit by herself, and she likes Polly Pockets and Littlest Petshop stuff (though, she really does not play with them that much!). She is reading in French and a bit in English. She loves to look pretty and I think she's starting to like clothes. She'd love a party outfit; something that fits AND matches. She plays with Leo all the time, they mostly make up stories and use cars or animals to act out some very long and complicated story lines. She likes movie and plays and wants to go to a "concert", she adores Star Wars and talks about the characters a lot. Oh yes, and Clara loves to eat at restaurants. We are mean parents because we don't take her to restaurants nearly often enough. She especially likes sit down places with waiters and waitresses.

Leo is 4 years old. He wears size 4 pants and size 5 tops and is very picky about how they feel. He needs elastic waists in order to make it to the bathroom on time and he needs soft T-Shirt style shirts against his skin. She loves character clothes; superheros, robots, etc. He loves watching Marc play video games, being read to, playing with cars and things that he can pretend are "shooters" (currently a small drill shoots lasers at our house). He's started playing with lego but needs help building things. Once he's got a construction he can play with it and the figurines for ages. He likes bakugans (some new trendy thing, I can't tell you much more than that), and wants to shovel snow with me this winter. Leo is perhaps the biggest Star Wars fan in the house. He will talk your ear off about episodes 4-6 and would probably just about die if he got any Star Wars paraphernalia for Christmas (he won't be getting any from us this year).

Both kids are looking forward to trying skiing this winter, and hopefully they will get into swimming lessons next session. We are also looking for a martial arts class for Leo to attend (and maybe Clara too).