Happy Turkey Day!

I have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, an awesome husband, a beautiful baby girl, and supporting and loving friends and family. I am truly blessed with all that I have and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Visitors

This past weekend we were so excited to have 4 of our favorite people come to visit us. Stacee, Ben, Madelyn and Ellie. Oh what fun we had! The girls were too cute together. There's something so funny about watching little ones interact with each other. Claire just loved Madelyn but didn't quite know what to think about Ellie. Madelyn just loved Claire but Ellie wasn't quite sure what to think about Claire. We all had a pretty great time despite the embarrasingly horrible game we all watched on Saturday night...pretty sure I don't need to specify which one that was :(


Here are some pics of the girls...

Big Girl Food

We finally decided it was time to start Claire on rice cereal. For the last few weeks she's been completely obsessed with watching us eat our food so we figured she was ready to graduate to the very yummy rice cereal. She actually did a really good job. Here are some pics...

Christmas Pics!

I can't believe it's almost Christmas time again! Christmas is my absolute most favorite time of the year, and Claire just happens to be my absolute most favorite baby girl. So of course, I was counting down the days to get her Christmas pictures made. I had originally set the appointment for next week but just couldn't wait any longer and asked if they could squeeze us in today. I left school early and was excited to see when I arrived home that Claire was in a great mood. She smiled and laughed all the way to the portrait place and then... she completly shut down. It was literally like she had used up all of her smiles. I was so distraught to see this because I really wanted some cute pictures. Luckily my lovely mother in law accompanied us to the studio to help out and she didn't disappoint. She made noises I had never heard before and at one point even danced a little jig. Whatever she did, it worked. We were able to catch a few great shots of her pretty little smile.

The very last poses were saved for her snow bunny look. By this time she was looking at us like we were crazy, and definitely not smiling.






I also unfortunately didn't realize that this dress didn't have a diaper cover with it, so she flashed her diaper several times...poor baby.

5 Months Old!!!

My little girl isn't so little anymore :( I can't believe how fast these past 5 months have gone. Happy Birthday Claire!







5 days old!

5 Months old!