Sunday, October 31, 2010

Little Flower

Claire was dressed up for Halloween for all of about 30 minutes today. Her favorite part of the day was seeing all the trick-or-treaters stop by our house.




This massive deer has been roaming around our house the last few days.


Saturday, October 30, 2010

9 Months

Claire had her 9 month check-up this week. And yes, she's still a giant weighing in at 23.5 lbs (after three days of a nasty stomach bug) and measuring 30 inches in length.



The ledge of the fireplace is her new favorite place to play. I love those thighs. :)



Last weekend Evan's Uncle Mike and Aunt Lisa flew in for the Iowa/Wisconsin game. Claire, as always, loved the attention.


Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Weddings

The last few weeks have been crazy busy but so much fun! We started the month with a trip to Rapid City, South Dakota for a wedding while Claire stayed home with my parents. Here you can see Nana letting Claire do whatever she wants.







That was supposed to be our opportunity to catch up on sleep. Instead we reverted back to our pre-Claire days of staying up way too late!!! But it was so fun catching up with Evan's friends. (Photo props to Cassie.)



The next weekend we ventured to Denver for another wedding and drug Claire along with us. She was such a great traveler and thoroughly enjoyed all of the attention on the plane.



My sister's family met us there.





I probably enjoyed the weekend a little more than Evan since he was on full-time Claire duty while I got to do fun bridesmaid stuff. :) (Photo props to Molly.)



Jason and Whitney are visiting us this weekend so we had to take them where we take all our visitors-to the apple orchard. There also happens to be a pumpkin patch there so Claire picked out her very first pumpkin-whichever pumpkin Evan could find first. :)





Sunday, September 26, 2010

8 Months

Claire had her 8 month photo shoot with the adorable quilt made by Evan's Grandma Jo and Aunt Phyllis.






Kim and Kyle were here for the Iowa game. Pretty sure Claire looks more like Kim's daughter than mine.



To address questions regarding Claire's nap nanny...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

September

Claire has become mobile seemingly overnight. She crawls all over and pulls herself up on everything. I'm not ready for this!




Here's Claire with her BFF Alleta. They've been playing together the last few Tuesday afternoons. SO fun to watch them interact!


Sunday, September 5, 2010

Seven Months



Claire got to spend a week with Grandma Beimers and loved every minute of it. Here they are at the apple orchard.