Our Happy Girl

Claire has been working on smiling. I think she is finally figuring out that she might like us!

She Has Rolls!

Video- 6 weeks old

Expressions

First Night Away

We decided to brave a night out of town. We stayed with our lovely friends Jonathan and Bonnie. Claire did amazingly well. It was a good trial run for our vacation at the end of the month. On Saturday morning we went to introduce Claire to her another set of her great grandparents, Nannie and Bb (my mother's parents). She also got to meet her great-uncle William, his soon to be wife Terry, and my cousin Katie. We are so glad that they were able to come to see her!

We also went to a pool party on Saturday at our Shaun and Katie's house. We had a great time. Claire took a super long nap and I was able to be out at the pool with everyone else!



Cuddlin' on Jonathan



With Miss Bonnie and Barley




Claire is looking wide-eyed with Nannie.


Content with Bb. She looked sooo tiny in his huge hands.



With William



Katie and Terry



Hanging with Justin



Boys with their sweet girls.

More Friends and the Poo-Poo Face.

The famous poo-poo face. Jon finally captured it at the perfect time.
We even have a special song for this face.
We sing Lady Gaga's Pokerface but substitute pokerface for poo-poo face.
It's pretty fun. We kind of hope she never grows out of it.



So excited that Annabelle came for a visit to meet Claire!



Ben, Jacq and Benjamin are finally home! Excited for our playdates. Hopefully LB won't tackle Claire!

One Month Photo Shoot

Claire had her one month appointment yesterday.

Weight: 8 lbs. 5oz. (she is getting some little rolls on her thighs!)
Height: 20 3/4 inches (already too long for a few of her newborn sleepers)
Head: 14 1/2 inches

She looks so much bigger to me but people are always commenting on how small she is.

The doctor said she looks great, we already knew that though! He also gave us the okay to bring her on a plane to visit Grandmama and Jidu for a fabulous vacation to Rhode Island at the end of August.

We are still having some success with sleeping longer stretches at night and are hoping for more consistency in the following weeks. It sure is hard to figure out a good schedule for her sleeping.
We are seeing little smiles (melts my heart) here and there but I am not sure they are necessarily in response to us. We are assuming and look forward to seeing real ones pretty soon.

We took one month pictures last night. Claire is wearing a day gown that was mine.



The "smile". I think I just caught her moving in a way that looks like a smile. Either way, it's darn cute.



Happy girl



Mad girl



Just lookin' pretty