Tulips

Last Friday Matt took the day off work and we headed up to the Tulip festival. It was a beautiful sunny day, and not too crowded yet (compared to what I imagine it must have been over the weekend). I can't believe we haven't done this sooner, it was such a great day and some really fun pictures.

Here are a few pictures from our excursion.

2 months!

Our little Claire is 2 months old and I can't believe it. These 8 weeks have flown by... and at the same time it seems so long ago since she was born and as if she has always been part of our little family.

2 Month notes for Claire:

1. Height/Weight - the official doctors appointment is tomorrow for your 2 month checkup (but on our scale at home you are an estimated 11.5 lbs)
2. You have finally let us sleep for 6 hours in a row (not every night yet... but for 3 nights last week! Hoping this becomes a trend soon)
3. You smile at us all the time now when we smile a you, especially in the mornings.
4. Hats finally fit you (besides the one newborn size hat we had)... so now that it's getting close to summer we have lots of warm hats to put on you... haha.
5. You are the tiniest baby in our PEPS group, and we think you are going to be one social butterfly as soon as you can start talking! You are already starting to make sounds all the time. 
6. You still won't have anything to do with a binky most of the time, but love sucking on your hand now especially in the last week or so. 
7. The TV screen is entirely too interesting right now (you might take after your mom on this one) - and we both love watching the Today show in the morning while we get up for the day
8. Your head/neck is getting so strong and you can hold it up pretty well now. It still bobs back and forth sometimes though as you are trying to balance, and we call you our little Gila Monster. 
9. Walking in your carrier or riding in the car both still put you right to sleep. 
10. You hate having the sun in your face (lucky for you living in Seattle this isn't too common yet), but we are working to get you used to wearing your sunglasses so hopefully that will help! 

2 month photo shoot: 

A couple more recent pictures from last week

Chewing her hand, a typical pose these days

Done taking pictures! 

Styling...

Happy Baby

Weekly pictures of Claire

It was so nice last week with a bunch of sunny days! We decided to get Claire a pair of sunglasses (that strap behind her head with a foam band) to get her used to them so she will hopefully wear some this summer and not freak out. They are super cute, and with the sun out of her eyes she just passed right out asleep on our morning walk to get coffee.

Here are my favorite pictures I captured from the last week (on my iPhone) of Claire:

Getting so big! Just about 10lbs still (at least on our scale at home) 

Tried to capture her smiling in this self portrait of us.

Officially 7 weeks old in this picture with her Jean Jacket.

Morning is her happiest time of day, she will just kick and laugh and smile constantly from about 8am-11am.

 So tired...



We heart West Seattle

We went down to Alki beach to take a walk on Saturday and I snapped these pic's on my iphone. I just love how beautiful this neighborhood is... especially on those rare sunny days!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! We had a great Easter this year, and spent it up in Marysville with my family. Saturday night Matt and I even left Claire for the first time for a couple hours with my parents and went and saw the Hunger Games movie. It was fun to get out of the house just the two of us... but we were both anxious to get back home to Claire. Sunday for Easter we went to church and Claire got to meet lots of people excited to see her, and then we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon back at my parents for dinner and also celebrating my Mom's birthday.

We finally have a picture of all three of us together. 

Here are a few more pictures from this last week, leading up to Claire being 6 weeks old.