And Rowen has proved to have just a few methods up her tiny sleeve. 

She was barely seven months outdated when she took her first steps, mere days after she mastered crawling. “One day, we were all just out here, and me being the stage mom that I am, I was videotaping her,” Clare recounted. “And she just took off and started walking to my husband.” 

Stunned, mentioned Clare, “I just started bawling because I was like, ‘God, this little human is just learning things and growing and every day it’s something different.'” 

But whereas the strolling was spectacular, Clare’s favourite milestone to date was a bit extra refined. 

“Her being a surrogate baby, one of my worries was, ‘How is she going to know I’m her mom?'” Clare defined. “But she truly looks for me in a crowded room. When she’s hurt, she reaches for me. When she doesn’t feel good, when she’s tired, she reaches for me in a crowded room. It just goes to show, it doesn’t matter where our little babies come from or how they come into this world, they know who their mama is, they know who their dad is.”