10 months

Claire,

• You are walking! You will take from 3 steps up to 10 steps sometimes and are getting more balanced and confident every day!
• For Christmas you got a rocking Elephant you can sit on which you love, and you were thoroughly spoiled by Santa and all of your family.
• I swear you are getting your top front teeth, but every time it seems they are about to pop through they don't... This doesn't stop you from eating just about everything solid though.
• Your new favorite foods include veggie meatballs, cheesy green beans, fish sticks, and you are adamant at every meal you have your own cup of water.
• You say "mama" now and I swear that most the time it seems like you know that is me!
• Anything that makes you feel like a "big girl" is the best. Sitting in your Rocking chair like the adults, eating big people food, and of course walking around. 
• You are a little ham and smile at everyone when we are out and about. You love getting smiles from strangers and look (gawk) at everyone with your mouth wide open, and wave at everyone. 

10 month photos

First time in the Snow - Snoqualmie Pass in early December 

Christmas morning at Nana & Grandpa's house 

Loving being a big girl in your rocking chair 

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...



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.



5 weeks

Claire is 5 weeks old (technically tomorrow), and since this blog is our way of documenting things that we want to remember.... Here are 10 things I'll want to remember about her at this age someday:

1. She is such a happy baby and really only cries when she is hungry. At first she was eating during the day almost every hour, but after she turned about a month old she has now been able to go 2 hours between meals most of the time during the day! This makes it much easier to get out of the house and run errands when we need to!
2. This week I think we have maybe seen a couple smiles (that weren't just in her sleep or when she has gas, haha). Hoping to see more smiles in reaction to all the funny faces we make at her soon!
3. We got our first blessed stretch of sleep for more than 4 hours at night this week.
4. She had her first bath which did not involve any screaming (such a drama queen).
5. We give her medicine each day for the thrush on her tongue... it's cherry flavored and neon yellow in color...frequently causing stains on her clothes, (who thought cherry flavored medicine for infants was a good idea?) but she seems to like it now.
6. Weighed her on the scale at home and she is over 9 lbs! Up over 2 lbs from when she was born.
7. Officially moving up from newborn diapers and most of her newborn sized clothes this week, to the 0-3 month size
8. The hair/fuzz on the top of her head it thinning out, but the hair on the back of her head and the sides keeps growing. So it's kind of a receding "old man hair do" right now until it starts growing more.
9. When she is really hungry and drinking big gulps she raises her eyebrows with each drink, which is really cute & also funny when she really gets going.
10. She is already oh so curious and loves looking around. Lights are especially interesting, and fluorescent lights are the coolest.  

Such a happy shopper at the mall with me

Helping hold Dad's beer for him while we made dinner

First time actually enjoying a binky and not spitting it out

Happy baby after a nice warm bath!

Another shot of that cute bum in her new G Diapers. So far they are working out pretty good. Only one "blowout", haha ... but that may have been due to user error on my part.

This girl already rules our house, and takes over our bed in the morning while we get ready for the day.



So cute in her new North Face jacket on this rainy Friday

1 Month photos

Since we may not always have time to do weekly pictures on the blog (although I'm sure going to try and post pictures and updates as much as possible) - I decided I would at least commit to doing monthly updates and wanted to start this week with our first Monthly photos. We got these cute stickers as a gift to put on a onesie each month to document as the months go by.

People always say to new parents that time flies, but it truly is amazing how fast it goes by, I cannot believe Claire is a month old already.

Some extra pictures from this week, 4 weeks old

Trying out our new "G Diapers". They are pretty cute and more eco-friendly...so hopefully they work well!



Happy St. Paddy's Day

We are celebrating St. Patrick's Day today (and Claire's 3 week birthday), heading over to Kirkland to visit some friends for Claire's first "party" and then going over to Matt's mom's house for dinner. As you can see Claire is pretty excited about her green headband she is sporting today...

 A few more pictures from this week...

 

She loves her daddy

Claire the "Bear" in her fuzzy suit after a short walk to the neighborhood cupcake shop.

2 weeks

I just can't stop taking pictures of our little girl... and I'm realizing that I am just going to be one of those parents taking pictures all the time, oh well she'll get used to it.

Here are pictures from this week, as of today she is 2 weeks old!

 

I believe this is the "Mom why are you doing this to me face?!" 

 2 weeks today!

The infamous Claire stretch...she loves to stretch out, especially her arms above her head as she is waking up



1 week

Here are a few pictures we took this week of Claire, she is 5 days old in these pictures, and we can't believe it's already been a week now since she was born. It sure is true that time flies by fast.