What a blessing to have a baby in the house as we celebrate Christmas! There are sooo many great photos of our families together for the holidays here. Look at them when you have time…there are about 100! Here they are in slideshow format (hover your mouse over it so the horizontal pictures are full sized and not cut off by the vertical column on … Continue reading Baby’s First Christmas!

Here’s a photo of the extended family in front of the tree as we celebrate Christmas Eve a day early. I’ll correct the red eye and lighting another time but wanted to post anyway! Continue reading Family Pic

I’m showing off my crazy eyebrow this morning! – Claire Continue reading

I bundled Claire up and took her to the doctor’s office today for her checkup. Claire now weighs a healthy 12 pounds and 1 ounce and has grown an inch and a half since her last check up! Now I know why I had to start packing up all the footed sleepers, at 24 1/2 inches she’s in the 97th percentile for height! She’s a … Continue reading 2 Month Doctor’s Visit!

Dan and I trekked to Panera last night for dinner. Claire was great,until I was about to dig into my favorite salad (dried cherries, mixed lettuce, walnuts, gargonzola…yummy!). We tried nursing, we tried the leg jiggle, we brought out the trusty binky – but nothing worked. Finally, thinking she had gas, I put the baby over my knee and rubbed her back (all while trying … Continue reading Vampire Baby!

Part of me is embarrassed to post how late I slept today…but I just had to document this! Claire and I have been hunkering down in the blue room while Dan’s back is healing. Last night I fell asleep downstairs (as did the baby) and finally made it up around 2 o’clock in the morning. When I made it to the master bedroom, I smelled … Continue reading 11:30?!

It’s early, but Claire is starting to show some pre-teething signs. She’s been a real drool monster and is chomping away at anything that gets near her mouth. Instead of sucking on her pacifier, she’s been gumming it like crazy. And, just this morning I had her on her ladybug spinner and she was munching on the poor things antennae! I was just saying recently … Continue reading "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"