Rocking, Not Rolling

This morning Claire is doing a lot of rolling onto her side. She goes to her right side, gets a little frightened and then rolls back to her tummy.
For the most part it seems controlled. Every time I tried to get a picture she rolled back over to her tummy. Basically, I know she Can do it, she would just rather Not do it.

Amendment:
She was spitting up a ton so I decided tummy time was over. I rolled her a little to her side then used her toys over and around her head to entice her to finish rolling. And it worked!

Baby's First Thanksgiving!

That's so weird! There must be something wrong with Google Blogger because it's January and this post about Thanksgiving (November 24) is just being put up. Mysterious!

Just kidding! We're behind and just catching up :)

We originally planned to do a mini vacation for Thanksgiving, but Peter's job had him busy right up until the end. So we thought it would be more relaxing and enjoyable to just have a little Thanksgiving meal together at home alone.

It was very nice to be together for a whole day!  Claire and Peter watched the parade while Melanie cooked the most amazing Thanksgiving meal ever!

Really, we all helped make dinner sort of!)

Melanie made the turkey, pie, sweet potato and green bean casseroles, rolls, and potatoes and gravy.

 Peter let Claire help with the rolls!

 Peter helped glaze the ham.

 The spread!

All dished up :)

Claire was obviously excited to be watching us eat dinner! Haha!

Before eating dinner:

After eating dinner:

 What? You say they're the same?! Oh no, the casseroles and gravy moved. And Peter and Melanie are very full and happy! Hooray!

So we had a small family Thanksgiving together at home. It was lovely. Sometimes it's just great to spend more than one day together doing whatever it is that you feel like doing as a family.

Happy Thanksgiving!

To Grandmother's House We Go

On Nov. 4th Claire and I went to Texas to surprise my dad for his birthday. Boy was he surprised!
He just loves his little grand baby!

This was Claire's first time on an airplane. She was amazing. On the ride there she fell asleep as the plane was lifting off the ground. Same story on the way home except that she woke up hungry about 2 hours into our 4 hour flight. Overall I think the travel portion of our trip went well.

Claire met some of her uncles and they just loved trying to make her laugh! We went to Marc's UIL concert together, went out to eat, visited mom's school to show Claire off to all of mom's coworkers, and generally had a good time.
It was so much fun spending time with my family; my arms got a much needed break from holding the babe all of the time. But it was good to get home to our dad. He missed us.

Seeing Mel and Claire Off

Today, I sent Mel and Claire off on their trip!  I wish them a fun time and will miss them both!

Have a fun time! - Peter

Today Sucks

Let me say it again.

Today Sucks.

I tried to get things started right by getting dressed right away.

I then went to get Claire who promptly spit up all down the front of my shirt.

Not an hour later, I was feeding her when she pooped out of her diaper and up her back which I discovered when I put my hand flat against her back. (The poo also got on my boppy pillow. And I don't blame Claire for this. It's definitely the diaper's fault)

Then when I was trying to change her out of the poopy clothes, poop got all over--to be expected-- but I discovered that the diapers were gone so I turned to grab some more. Claire peed all over the changing table in the 5 seconds it took to get another diaper.

That was all this morning.

I also tried to make an impression of Claire's foot with this "easy-to-use" dough. 

1. The dough stuck to the wooden stick they gave to roll the dough out with--POINTLESS! So I ended up using my own rolling pin anyway.

2. I put Claire's foot down and there was lint that I had missed on it and a line from her pants--GREAT!

3. I used this ring that was provided to cut a circle around the print. The dough stuck to the ring making it impossible to get the dough out. Fabulous.

Apparently things are just bound to go wrong today.

The only good thing about today is that it is the day before tomorrow.

Happy Halloween!

Yes, I intended to post these on Halloween.

Yes, that was 2 days ago.

But does that make them any less cute?

Claire likes Halloween!

The Pumpkin Patch

On the evening of October 27th we went to Spina farms off of 101.

Claire and Peter took a train ride.

And we all went on a hay ride through a sunflower patch.

And we picked some pumpkins.

 No actual plucking involved, but that's ok.

 This being Claire's first Halloween, we took the opportunity to take some sweet photos : )

She had a hard time staying upright, but we're still working on that!

She definitely loves spending time with both of her parents!

And we each scored a pumpkin!