Thursday, December 11, 2008

A New Trick: Call and Response Singing

She started doing this yesterday afternoon and is now super good at it. She varies the sounds between "Hoo" and "Mamm." You don't have to ask her to sing though; she is freely composing atonal odes to her shiny beads, my hair, Grandma's orange shirt, to her wolf toy and there was even a song in honor of Daddy coming home yesterday. Today I came back from the gym a bit worse for wear and Claire fixed me right up with a little song---she's such a pleasure!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Ready for Christmas


Blessing Day
















Claire's blessing was a great success. The gown was mine once upon a time and the bonnet was made for Claire the previous day by Great-Grandma Regular. Adam did a wonderful job and we were pleased to have a full house.

Meeting the Family over Thanksgiving





































Walking with Daddy










Well, she won't roll over or even attempt to crawl, but she can sit up on her own and now this...Good grief I think I'm in for a wild ride! She is of course just using those early reflexes, but you've got to admit she's a really strong little kid. Note the picture where she tries to run away from Daddy.