October

We retired the diaper bag and replaced it with this cute owl backpack.
Can't you tell she loves it, ha ha.



Claire had fun fixing Grandy's hair.



Surfing on a container lid



Playing at the park



She is so good at going down slides!



In the tunnel with Daddy.




Climbing up to the BIG slide.



She can't go down this one alone.



We had such a fun visit with Evyn, Henry and the Stansell family.









Buddies!



Claire was really proud to be sitting on the couch with her big cousin Jake.
She loves her cousins so much, we are so excited to have them live right down the road from us now!

A Few from the Weekend

She was hot stuff in Daddy's shirt.


We were about to leave for church and she looked so pretty and sweet.
I wanted to get a good picture. Instead I got this and......



...this. She would not still!
In the closet, of course.
We are hoping her enthusiasm for the vacuum stays for a few years :)



She found this sleeve from anew notebook on the floor and put this on her head. It was her idea and she did it all by herself.

Sitting Pretty

Though Claire shows very little interest in playing with her toys, she does like climb in the basket to sit on them.


Watching tv in her big girl rocker.
She loves to climb in and out of this too.



Playdate with Landon. It is so fun to watch them begin to interact!


Poppy helping her at the playground at the mall


Enjoying a summer evening outside at Granny and Poppa's house.


"My hands on my head"


So glad that Jon has a football partner in Claire. They were excited for the first Clemson game this season.


Landon and his beautiful Mama, Jenn.



She is really beginning to like looking at books.


Sitting in her toy box again!

The Past Two Months

It has officially been forever since I have updated the blog. So sorry. I decided that instead of trying to play catch up from the past two months I will just post a few pics from the summer and move on from there. Unfortunately I am not a devoted blogger like some of my wonderful friends but I realized that I do like having a place to look at special pictures and little updates of our sweet sweet girl, so I am going to try to do a better job at keeping this up!



We were in Pawley's Island for her actual birthday. We went with my Mom's side of the family. We all had such a wodnerful time. She LOVED the beach and all of the attention, of course!


She really is this happy most of the time!



At home on the fourth of July watching the Nathan's hot dog eating contest for the second year in a row.



Playing in the rain at Jon's 10 year high school reunion.



Claire and I took a trip to Rhode Island and had a very relaxing stay. One of her favorite things there was this swing in the front yard.


Claire spent a whole weekend away with Grandy and Mimi while Jon and I had a vacation in Charleston! She did so well and had a great time.

Claire turned ONE!

We had a small family party at our house at the end of June. Claire acted exactly how you would want your baby to act at her first birthday. She loved opening presents and eating her cupcake.