Eleven Months Old

Crazy that soon we won't be measuring The Peanut's age in months - but in years.  This officially marks the end of my "___ Months Old" signs.  Kind of makes me relieved (it was getting more and more challenging to take those pictures) and sad (I still remember the "One Month Old" shoot... sigh).  In milestones for month 11: Claire has sprouted 4 new teeth making the grand total 8, says "Mama", "Dada", "dog", and "cat" pretty accurately (with an occasional "all done" thrown in there).  She "crusies" along  furniture, animals, boxes, and toys constantly, and seems to be getting pretty close to walking.  Stay tuned....

 Me looking at my Daddy.  I love him so much!

Cute iPhone pictures courtesy of Nanny Caroline.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

For Claire's first Christmas we had not one, but two trees!  This was not on purpose, nor did we have them simultaneously, but the first tree we decorated (the one pictured here), promptly died 4 days after we put it up.  No joke.  Enter tree #2.  The silver lining... I think going forward we will only be cutting down our own trees in the forest.

Anyways, Peanut had lots of fun helping us trim the tree, mainly trying to eat ornaments.  When we  brought Tree #1 into the house she was initially afraid of it, but that quickly faded.  We consider it a success that we made it through the holiday without her pulling it down on top of herself.  There's always next year....

Ten Months Old

Ok, this month kind of got away from me, so I'm just going to post the pictures from her photo shoot since I'm not 100% sure what was happening with us - besides getting ready for Claire's first Christmas and a whole lot of crawling.

As you can see, getting these "__ Month Old" pictures is now next to impossible. 

Oh yes, and here are some adorable pictures of her in a cute outfit from Aunt Deedee.  She looked so precious we just had to take a few quick shots.  (I remember when we got this outfit right after she was born I didn't think she'd ever be big enough to fit in it)

Santa's Little Helper

Seriously, this outfit is so cute it merited its own post.  OMG, I can't stand how adorable she is.  She loves the oven because she can stand up with the help of the bar and look at herself in the shiny part.  Good times.

Claire found this phone in the trash.  It used to be one of the ranch intercoms, but it was extra and she kept pulling it down on top of herself, so we got rid of it - or so we thought.  She finds it amazing!  She chews on all the different parts and just bangs in around (I keep teaching her my cell phone number but it's not taking, for some reason).  Needless to say, it is trash no more, it has been added to "Claire's Mountain of Things She Occasionally Likes to Play With"  (yes, this is a real place in the house)

On the Move

These are a bunch of funny pictures that Mom (Gamma) took of Claire during her stay.  A lot of them are of her getting up from naps, which is usually her happiest time of the day.  She loves to climb on people and is trying to figure out new ways to walk around the room - with help, of course.

This is my walker, but I don't like .to use it in the traditional way - too constricting.  I like to hold it and walk alongside of it.  It still fulfills the purpose, and when I get bored I don't need to depend on some adult to get me out.