push it

push it real good.

claire loves to push things.
especially if she can walk behind, around or under it.

she has yet to learn how to turn around when she runs into something though. oh well. soon enough im sure.

auntie kenzies birthday

auntie kenzie celebrated her golden birthday on the 21st.
turns out claire sorta stole the show. (sorry auntie kenzie)

after playing with her new sunglasses, claire ate some table food. ive never seen her eat so much at one time. of course we typically dont have the wide variety of  foods available. she tried bites of flatbread with mozzarella and peppers, chicken fettuccine alfredo, french fries, green beans, garlic mashed potatoes and a giant pickle slice. pretty sure the pickle was her favorite. (i think thats everything.)

and after all that eating she was happy to relax by uncle kyle.

(probably because he didnt bring his big dog with)

10 months.

10 months already. crazy.
lets see whats new???

shes trying more and more table foods. her favorites so far are cheerios and graham crackers.

she got her 3rd ear infection. on top of that we think she was going through a growth spurt and is working on more teeth. those 3 things combined = one fussy baby who woke up lots during the night and 2 tired parents. we also learned that when claire gets her 4th ear infection she will "earn" or "win" herself some tubes in her ears! haha.

she has officially stood on her own. for about 3 seconds. but whos counting?!?!

shes given herself some bruises. whether its climbing on and all over our barstools to trying to put her pacifier in her eye...she always seems to have some sort of bruise or spot on her. and of course...who can resist a side by side? (not this girl)

featured on the next episode of hoarders...

will be our daughter. 

the pacifier hoarder.

if we have 3 of her favorite toys, ones playing music even, a remote and a pacifier spread throughout the room...she will no doubt go for the pacifier as soon as she sees it. 

(a little hard to tell but she is holding 3 pacifers in her hands)

we've glanced at our baby monitor at night to see how shes sleeping and have seen her cry/spit her pacifier out and immediately put a new one in because she loves to hold them even when going to sleep. 

hodge-podge

another hodge podge of pictures.

we got claire a pair of skinny jeans. and i love em. thankfully she doesnt seem to mind them either :) 

shoes. we have started to put some shoes on claire when we are out and about. shes always curious as to trying to figure what they are when they are on her feet; especially since she never wore socks...and she usually keeps them on for a little bit. and then she quickly manages to get them off and use them as toys.

some friends from college came to visit last weekend with their little one levi. in these pics hes about 3 months old and claire is a little over 9 months. 

(couldnt resist this second pic, its like they are doing the exact same pose)

this is also how we are greeted when someone wakes up from a nap. so crazy how much she has changed! i was watching some videos of her when she was just learning to roll over and couldnt believe how small she was and how much she has changed!!! shes definitely not a little baby anymore :(

we are having more and more fun feeding her different foods too. here she is with eggs, chocolate chip banana bread and kiwi. any guesses on the one food that was all gone after she was done eating? yup, the one with lots of carbs and chocolate! just like her mama. (thankfully it was sorta healthy, i mean it DID have bananas in it!) 

bubbles and sippy cups.

just a few lil random pictures today. nothing too exciting goin on over here. just trying to enjoy the warm weather. turns out claire likes bubbles. and her lil green chair.

and she will try any attempt to get her sippy cup.

she still hasnt really figured out she can drink from it yet though. she gets too distracted by chewing on it instead. oh well. 

the evolution of the crawl

before claire i never really stopped to think about many developmental milestones. of course generally babies roll over before they sit up and things like that. but i never thought there would be differences in crawling. i figured crawling meant crawling. hands and knees simple. but to then find out some babies skip crawling and just start walking? what?!?

and then of course theres claire. she started out doing the army crawl/scoot.

and then moved up to regular crawling.

and now she "crawls" on her hands and feet. with her lil butt up in the air. (maybe developing some more muscles before standing on her own?!? who knows.)

but its pretty cute. she can do any and all of these different crawls these days trying to get from point a to point b. too bad we arent sure how to teach her that if she just did one she could become a lot faster. but then again, do we really want her to be faster?! i dunno.