roll over, roll over!

Claire rolled over today after weeks of *almost* rolling over!! She would get the whole way over, and get stuck with her arm under her body and her head too heavy to lift! Here she is in all her rolled over glory (she's not looking too hot about being over, is she?)

Uncle David brought his girlfriend Summer home this August to see the family and meet Claire! We had a great weekend with them and wished it would've lasted longer...What a fun time! They flew in Friday after a long layover and we all got aquainted...us to Summer and them to Claire...David is a riot with babies so there was lots of lifting into the air, googly eyes and funny voices. We had my dad's famous pizza for dinner and Summer and Carolyn gave Claire a bath. Saturday we hung out by the pool and had a fabulous gourmet dinner care of David and Summer...We played games afterwards! :) Sunday we had a cookout at our house and invited the extended family for dessert. My husband is the best griller! Love that!

The weekend was great...Ate at Redwood Lodge for dinner Monday night before an early flight to California on Tuesday morning...Claire can't wait to see you again Uncle David...and we can't wait to see Summer again at Christmastime!! ;) ;)

The Color Purple

We painted our dining room!! Next up--kitchen!!

before...

during... (thank you Carolyn!)

after...

I'm so bad at this....

So here it is Claire's 4 month birthday and I haven't blogged since her THREE MONTH birthday! So sad...I do have a good excuse though...We got a new camera with new software that really really sucked...and wouldn't let me upload my pictures to my blog...So I uninstalled the softward and re-installed Picasa and POOF! Easy blogging!! Love it!

Claire is getting so big, starting to almost roll over, talking up a storm...and is such a happy baby! I'll have to upload some more pics of our last month, but will do it slowly cause I always hate it when people add 4 new posts all in one day....

Love you all...talk to you soon...Glad to be back!!

13 and 14 weeks old!

Last week Claire turned 3 months! Man--time flies!! :)

Here's a picture since I'm not the best blogger...

12 Weeks Old!

Well...12 weeks old...Can't believe that! Look at that smile too...Claire is getting so big! We had to purchase the next size cloth diapers cause those cute little small fuzzibunz were just not cuttin' it. Much better fit and we're learning what we like...The diaper in the picture is Imse Vimse and it has cute little zoo animals on it...Claire is so cute with her cloth diapered bottom!

If you look really closely, her shirt says "Babies United for BreastMilk"...It was an omen for the morning really...She was protesting with her shirt, even though daddy got her dressed...
We're going to try to start giving her a morning bottle as much as we can to get her used to those things...She hates them right now, but has to learn so I can go back to work in the fall...It makes me think very hard about health care and the United States and why mothers don't get more time off to be with their babies. It is just so sad to me that I'm frustrated that my baby DOESN'T want the bottle...when I love nursing her, and she's so good at it, and it's so good for her and I. I'm so thankful to have all this time to just be with her and nurse her and not have to worry about bottles and pumping--four whole months! I'm so lucky really! We should all move to France where moms have a whole year paid maternity leave...oh to be so lucky!

Anyway--enough of a rant....I love my baby girl and am having so much fun seeing what she can do! This morning she grabbed my shirt and tried to pull herself closer to me....oh so cute! And I can't believe that next Tuesday she will be 3 months old! The time really does fly and I can't believe she's so big! :)

Happy 12 week birthday, Miss Claire!

11 weeks and oh so cute!

Ga! I just can't get enough of her!