Pictures taken 12/21/07 through 1/16/08. Mostly Christmas!

Colleen | March 10, 2008 | Claire, Family | 2920 words and 1,234 views | 1 comment

I’ll catch up eventually. But I don’t want to skip ahead, since we are kind of using this site to help keep track of all of Claire’s happenings, new tricks, etc. I won’t explain much about these pics except to say they are from Christmas. That was 3 months ago. I know. But enjoy.
Claire eating avocados. She seemed to like them.OK, no more! She was getting tired, and after this went down for a nap!We dedicated Claire at church on Dec. 22nd, and she was wearing her Christmas dress. We tried to have Pastor Sheri take a family photo with the trees on stage before service started!During her dedication, they put her cute OU cheerleader pic up on the screen. She was the star for about 3 minutes!She didn’t cry, or scream but she sure did squirm during the last couple minutes of us being up there. This was right around the time when we was starting to crawl, so she only wanted to be on the floor moving all around and not being held!Here’s my mom entertaining Claire at the restaurant after the service. We had about 15 people come out afterwards to visit and help us celebrate.Playing with Uncle Jeff. Claire loves this, but unfortunately Jeff was only home for about a month at Christmas. They sure had fun while he was home though.Feeding Claire sweet potato baby food on Christmas Eve (we went out to eat after church, and yes she is wearing the same dress!) I just thought this pic was funny because of the expression on her face.Christmas Eve- Claire in her dress in front of our Christmas tree. I was procrastinating putting her to bed because she was being so cute and smiley!Claire really officially started crawling on December 24th. She just tooooook off! And from then on, she wouldn’t sit still which it makes it much more difficult to take pictures.Cutie Claire.This girl can find the tiniest piece of carpet fuzz and get in her mouth before you can stop her. Not to mention dog toys, blackberries, remotes, etc.I call this chubbalish.Claire’s first Christmas Morning… getting ready to open her stocking!Um, did I mention the crawling started? Where the heck did Claire go? (Her directional abilities had not quite developed by this point).Jeff was making her dance. And she liked it!Christmas dinner with the Essers and the Rickards.Claire helping Jeff open his gifts.Claire opening one of her many gifts. She got more than most of us put together.The girl loooves to eat paper. Paper towels. Computer paper. And apparently wrapping paper too.This hat didn’t make her happy at first. But she had just woke up from her nap (she slept through dinner!) and she was quite hungry during present-time.Welcome Baby Meg to our family! It took a couple days for us to pick a name for the baby Grandma Susan got Claire, but I (Co) decided that Meg fit. (I love the name but I know Matt won’t let me name our kid that, and the baby just looks like a Meg!)Mommy and the babies, Claire and Meggy.So many presents for such a little girl.Oh! Claire loves to put her mouth on the smooth plastic baby face. I try to get her to KISS the baby but she only wants to slobber and suck on her cheeks! Oh well…Reading stories with Grandma Vicki.Matt got a Nintendo Wii a couple weeks before Christmas, and so this was the center of our entertainment since it was a blizzard out! Grandpa Rick was helping Claire polish her Dance-Dance moves. Some day maybe she’ll look just as silly as Daddy and Uncle Jeff as they goof around on those mats.We got to visit Grandpa John a few days after Christmas since he was out of town during that week. Claire loves to climb all over things/people.PLaying in the laundry basket- even after she got about 200 things for Christmas.Funny face in the basket.PLaying Wii with Daddy.Excuse me, could you tell me whose bath this is? Oh, it’s Claire’s bath. Got it. (thanks to Daddy who picked out the foam letters for Christmas).Mohawk baby.Claire always knows where Sooner is, and viceversa!Very mad at something…Ah yes- much happier now with a duck in her mouth.Mommy, Claire, Meg on the floor, and Sooner too. (Daddy was watching tv- obviously it was Sunday NFL playoffs)We met Sarah at the museum. Last time Claire was barely 3 weeks old, and this time she was crawling around looking in all the dioramas at the animals. Look Monkeys!Learning lots at the museum!I can’t remember why they had these fake goat things, but we decided to ride one anyway!They have a huge dinosaur puzzle and so Claire made friends and helped by moving all the pieces around for them.Of all things, I think she was most interested in the goldfish. Of all things…Mommy and Claire with the HUGE dino!

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  • Joan (Rickard) Knock says:
    April 14, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Hi! I found you website while I was trying to search for Arlene Steele on google. Then I saw the picture of your dad, John, who is my cousin! My dad (Dale) and your Grandpa Rickard were brothers in Rolfe, Iowa. I know you never knew your Grandpa Rickard, unfortunately I never knew him either. But my dad has great memories of his brothers. You have a beautiful family! It sounds and looks like you are all very active! If you get a minute please let me know how your dad and sisters are doing. I am truly sorry for the loss of your Aunt Arlene. I am at work right now, but hope to take a look at your site further when I get time. My husband Russ and I have two little girls Katie is 6 and Ellie is 3. Kids are great! I never knew how much fun they would be! If you get a minute, please write back. I would love the chance to get to know you, even if it is on the internet! Joan

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