Pots and Pans

For the past couple days, Clara has spent a lot of time playing with my pots and pans. She puts the lids on and takes them off, stacks the pots in each other and takes everything apart and goes at it again. She spends several minutes at a time sitting quietly doing this...sometimes getting frustrated that she can't get a pot out of another pot and other times looking very satisfied that she got the right lid on the right pot. It's so interesting to watch her facial expressions as she seems to be learning so much from something that she has seen me do countless times, day after day. It's great to see Clara becoming less needy for my attention all the time and more of an independent little girl. I guess this means my baby is growing up.