CLAIRE at 9 months!

At 8 1/2 months, Claire's first tooth popped out!

Milestones: Shakes her head

Makes raspberry sounds

Won’t take pacifier anymore.

Party trick: She is an incredible roller.  She’ll spot something she wants and roll clear across the room to get it.  She’ll roll 10 or more times in a row to get there.

She is a loud talker.  She hollers and squeals to get our attention.

She’ll wake up in the middle of the night not crying but saying, “Mama Mama!”

She “”sings” when she hears music playing, to Jeff’s piano playing and Ginny’s Violin playing and during worship at church.

2^nd tooth (bottom) is peeking out

Loves Cheerios

Sits up in tub

OUT OF TOWN JOBS

Jeff took a couple out of town jobs during September and October - twice to Mineral Wells and 3 times to San Angelo.  Because we still have the RV, we were all able to go with him. We home schooled (as usual) and enjoyed the different things the KOAs had to offer during breaks.

When we were in San Angelo it was close enough for my family  to come visit for a couple days.

 First Terere

CLAIRE at 8 MONTHS!

August 29, 2015

Stats: 26in (15th percentile) and 16.8lb (50th percentile)

Last month we put Claire in the living room at night hoping she’d sleep through but she didn’t take to that idea.  This month she’s still sleeping in the living room but we’ve added the ipod with a crowd noise app.  She’s done better so far but still waking up way too often for an 8 month old.

Milestones: Sitting up well, rolls all over the house, unsure about her new swing, pushes up on her hands

Nickname: Josiah started calling her Goo-ey and now he and Julia exclusively call her that

Foods likes: bananas

Food dislikes: peaches

Diaper size: 3

Clothe size: 12 month

Party trick: sings with us, loves houses that echo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIA!

Julia turned five with a watermelon flavored birthday cake.  

DESTINATION: ARKANSAS

July 30-August

After 10 hours of driving, we arrived at 5PM, found the RV park and set up.  

The following day we went fishing at the park.  No fish we caught, but we had fun anyway.

That evening was the rehearsal dinner for my brother.

 A bit of family time before the wedding began on Saturday.

 All dressed up

The wedding was beautiful.  Jeff performed the ceremony.

Sunday we went to Chrystal Bridges Art Museum.  Ginny and Tyler especially liked it. 

 Julia and Josiah especially liked the giant spider (Josiah has had a love/hate relationship with spiders for a while now). 

We just finished reading Pinocchio on the trip to Arkansas so this was fun to see.

We drove to Crater of Diamonds State Park.

Monday (8-3-15) – ever read the book Holes about the kid that was send to a correctinal facility in the desert where all day long that had to dig holes to further the evil head master’s plot to find burried treasure?  Well that was us.  Dig, dig, dig. It was hot.  Dig, dig, dig.  There was no shade. Dig, dig, dig.  Jeff wanted us to find the mother of all diamonds in order to buy out Ted’s half of the RV.  Dig, dig, dig.  It was fun though.  Julia and josiah loved all the dirt.   Dig, dig, dig.  Micah and tyler were an awesome diggers. Dig, dig, dig.  Ryan, Ginny and joshua were committed to digging, sifting, and combing….  

Sadly, we found nothing.  We had a few heart-racing moments but our “diamond” turned out to be a tortilla shell or a glass coke bottle top or a piece of plastic.

Fun memories!