My lovely girl

Colleen | November 1, 2007 | Claire, Family | 3249 words and 1,205 views | 1 comment

Well, too much has happened for me to write about everything. Another trip to KS, a play date with Lyla and Val which included a trip to Berry Patch Farms in Brighton, Grandpa Rick came to visit, Halloween, new toys and tricks, lots of drool and of course lots of cuteness.
Claire wants to MOVE so badly. We spent time at a friend’s house Sunday where there were two little boys (9/10 months) crawling and walking all over the place and Claire watched them so intently. She wants to move, as you can see from the pics she can hold herself up on her hands and knees now, but she doesn’t know what to do next. This is really pretty frustrating for her, but I am sure she will figure it out soon. Also, everything goes in her mouth and we are always getting lots of drool kisses. Every once in a while she will just start laughing, and then Matt and I scramble to recreate whatever she found so funny, but that usually doesn’t work. Sometimes it’s the dog, sometimes it’s a funny noise, sometimes it’s a kiss on her cheek.
Also, she loves when we sing to her!!! I tell everyone, if she cries, all you have to do is sing ABC’s and she immediately stops- it’s amazing! We also sing Old MacDonald had a farm (until we run out of farm animals and start singing about lions and tigers), twinkle little star, itsy bitsy spider, little tea pot, and Lilly taught us the little turtle song.
Well, enjoy the pics. The captions should tell a little more of the “Claire Story” for the last few weeks.
:) Colleen

Claire and Daddy watching tv, but Claire wants to eat the channel changer!Claire and her halloween jammies!After I nurse her, Claire always falls asleep on my shoulder while I try to get the burps out! Then, it’s an easy “transfer” to her bed where she sleeps for the night.Claire and Lilly at the football game. It’s hard to pay attention to the game, with these little cuties entertaining us!Grandma Susan bought Claire some cute shades for the game. They are purple and butterflies- Claire’s favorite things!Lilly really likes playing with Claire, and you can see Claire looking up at her. Claire loves her too!Sometimes the football games are too much, and Claire just has to take a nap!!Jeff and Claire at the restaurant after the big game. Jeff is so huge next to lil Claire, but she loves to sit on his lap and grab on to his big fingers.Claire always entertains us back at the hotel room in Topeka. She is talking to Grandma and Jeff, even though she should be getting ready for bed!Sometimes though, she’s just too tired to play anymore, and she gets a little grumpy! Jeff doesn’t know what to do with the crying baby!Everything, even her clothes, Claire tries to put in her mouth!After the long drive back from KS, Claire needed a nice long relaxing bath. So Daddy put on his swim suit and Claire went for a little swim in the big tub! She is really perfecting her back float, and she likes to look upside down at you while on her back.In the tub, and loving it.Look at me, Daddy!Look at me, Mommy!I bundled Claire up one morning so we could go out on the back porch and give Daddy his buzz-cut. Claire looked so cute in her hat!This was Claire’s favorite toy. SHe loved to chew on it, and shake it. However, Sooner got a little jealous and she stole it, took it out in the yard, tore it’s little froggy head off, and we had to throw it away. Bad Sooner!Claire joined us on the porch, but she didn’t last too long. There must be something soothing about chewing on that froggy.We got some hair accessories with an outfit, so I decided to try it on Claire. She doesn’t have enough hair yet, but soon…We took out the Rain Forest Jumperoo, that has been assembled since Claire was about 5 days old and put her in it finally! Her legs can’t touch the ground yet, and she’s not extremely interested in the flashing lights, but she does love the little bug which is the only part of the toy that will reach her mouth. She could just sit there and chew on it all day!We also have the Rain Forest high chair (and the Rain Forest swing and pack-n-play…) and Claire likes to sit in this too. I was putting her in her Bumbo seat while I ate lunch at the table, but since they got RECALLED and she is a little more interested in the toys, she really seems to like the high chair. Again it’s frustrating to her, because she wants to pull everything in to her mouth.The high chair has a tiger that reaches in to her mouth. She loves that, but sometimes she acts like she is trying to bite a piece off!She loves when I spin the big toy!Watching the toy spin!OK, here is the frustration. “Get in my mouth!!”Don’t think we are cruel parents, she looks a little mad but she is always trying to push up on her arms. Almost ready to crawl!Here she is a little happier… and with drool of course!PLaying with the Gym, her fave.She loves the little toys that hang down, but when she gets bored she tries to roll over…… and then she ends up running in to the gym. Silly girl!Grabbing her toes, is her one of her new tricks.Lyla and Claire finally get to play together. Lyla is 6 weeks older and a cutie too!It was hard to take a pic of the girls, and steady them at the same time. But you can see that Claire and Lyla get along just great!Claire and Lyla trying to pose by the pumpkins at Berry Patch Farms… it was hard to steady them and snap pics!Claire and Mommy on the farm on a beautiful fall day!!!They even had some chickens and roosters for us to look at! Claire didn’t really seem to notice…Claire in the cutest outfit later (thanks to the Tredways). She looks good in pink!“The girls” as I call them.. hanging out, playing on the floor together. Actually, it’s more like Claire playing with her cute fluffy toys and Sooner waiting until no one notices her snatch one and run through the doggy door and take it out back.Grandpa and Claire making funny faces at eachother.Grandpa is teaching Claire how to play catch with Sooner. If only Sooner would release the ball.Sometimes we have to pause play time to snap a pic. I think if Claire could roll her eyes, she would do that here, and say - Geez, Mom. Enough pictures!

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