The perfect seat

One of my sororiety sisters gave us her kids old toys.  Claire's LOVES this little chair and activity center. 

 She's learned if you press the top of the lamp, it lights up.

 It's the perfect seat since her feet can actually touch the floor. 

So much fun to explore!

Fun with friends

Claire invited some of her favorite munchkins over for a playdate today. 

 It's VERY hard to get 3 curious babies to look at the camera.

 This is Kayla, she is almost 9 months old.

This was the first playdate where they actually tried to play together; it was very sweet.  They kept reaching their hands out and touching each other.

This is Kayla and her mom Jen.  Jen was so sweet and made Claire several Christmas hairbows, and you know we LOVE hairbows!

This is Finley, she is 5 months old. 

Claire wanted to make sure her friends mommies had something yummy to eat: so she helped me make Christmas cookies.  Oh, and by help, I mean she screamed for 45 minutes while her daddy tried to calm her down. 

Playing with friends is very tiring.  In the middle of the playdate Claire fell asleep standing up in my arms.  I think that means it was a great day!

Christmas ready Claire

Yes, the outfit is a little big, ha ha.  Her little feet are in there somewhere.  All her Christmas outfits are hand-me-downs and 12 months. 

 Claire LOVES the tree!  It's so hard to get a good picture of her in front of it though, because she constantly wants to turn around and look at and touch the tree. 

 Claire of course had to get a special hair bow for the holiday season, too bad all she wants to do is pull it out :(

 Looking up to her daddy :)

Claire's current bestie

 Claire has developed a recent attachment to her little crinkly purple owl.  She's always loved to play with it, but now she doesn't want to let it go.  Last night she cried when I took it away for dinnertime, and this morning she held it for naptime.  It was so cute how she clutched her little friend so tight while she fell asleep, and when she had to rub her eyes, she'd just switch the owl to the other hand. 

Happy 7 month adjusted birthday Baby Claire

 This is how she spent her day.   The lack of a shirt is due to an incident with peaches.

Real Hair

 Look at all that hair blowing in the breeze!

Pulling up