surprise!

check out whats hanging out in our basement?! our new floor! 

i couldnt be more excited! oh wait i can...the hubs is gonna install it this weekend while claire & i hang out in hutch. now thats my idea of a great project!

light update

remember when my mom got a new laminate floor? and that made me want a new floor? and that made me want to get back on the "update our house" bandwagon again? ie i think of great ideas, try convince the hubs we NEED to make this change and then have him do the update? yah. so do i. 

this update was a quick one. change a light fixture. specifically the one in our upstairs hallway. i think the hubs is getting good and changing light fixtures. which is good because we still have a few to change downstairs.

before:

after:

now if we could only agree on flooring for our kitchen/dining room...

two months

well this post is a little late in being written/published, buuuut not too long ago claire turned two months. 

in a way i feel like the time has flown by so quickly. in a way i dont think so. but i think thats just how i feel about life in general. two months old. 

she weighed 10 pounds 3 oz at her doctors appointment. also at her doctors appointment i got to see a new side of claire. one who is incredibly upset. ive never seen her face get soooo red in my life. all thanks to some immunizations. but she got over it in a few minutes. is it odd that i didnt get upset to see her like that? i dont think so. i know that the immunizations are gonna help her in the long run and well i guess im used to seeing injections. and claire getting poked. (thanks to 3 or so bili levels when she had jaundice and when we had to redo her newborn screening test because they didnt get enough the first time around)

this past month we have (of course) seen lots of changes in claire. shes kicking up a storm these and loves sucking/gnawing on her fists. shes also quite the talker. and shes beginning to smile more and more. which makes mom and dad happy.

shes also getting better at tummy time. she still loves to sit up and just look at anything and everything. especially lights. besides getting baptized this month, she also visited a little place called benihana. thanks to a birthday coupon. (we arent sure where claire learned to let us know we were ah, #1 but we have our suspicions...jk)

and just for a little comparison...