A Monkey, a Moose and Claire

I was out of town last night and most of today for a meeting in Rochester, leaving Claire even for a night is hard. But there is nothing like picking her up at the end of the day and seeing her sheer excitement to see me.
She has a new game where she starts walking towards to you, we hold our arms out, and at the last second she makes a 90 turn to the right or left to fake you out (of course laughing after she makes her move). Today after dinner she played with her stuffed monkey and moose. She proceeded to walk around the family room for the next 10 minutes carrying them with her.