Claire loves to clean and organize and give food to people. That's pretty much me. Last night after the kids brushed their teeth and were getting ready for bed, Claire lined Nathan's and my tooth brushes up on the counter top and put two neat dots of tooth paste on each of them (apparently she saw it that way on a commercial). She also has an obsessive compulsive 3-step process of wetting the tooth brush first, then putting on the paste, and then wetting it again. It simply HAS to be done that way. Then she placed the floss neatly next to them, she said, "so that when you come in and turn on the light everything will be ready for you."
She also prepares snacks for everyone, all the time, even if they don't want it. Once I was rocking Lola in her room with the light off, trying to get her back to sleep and Claire burst through the door with a muffin, so eager to give it to me. I couldn't refuse because it clearly makes her so happy to give the muffin.
I just walked in the bathroom to find that she had cleaned everything off the counters and taken the rugs out and was scrubbing all the surfaces. When I start cleaning, she gets happy and joins me. I remembe when Mom would start vacuuming and I would get all excited. I'm so weird, and I've passed it on to my children.
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