I love my new toy.

Mom showed me how to hit the middle of the toy to get the music to play, but I'm more interested in trying to catch the remote. It's slippery. I spend hours pushing and playing with the remote for my new toy. And if I'm wanting to go across the floor to play with a different toy I make sure to take it with me.

My remote

Picture Update

Thank you Aunt Valerie

Thank you for my new toy to play with in the car. I have already figured out how to hit it to make it play the music. Mom has been reading me the Rainbow fish book and I love it. I try to pick the shiny scales off the page and when I can't do that I try to eat the fish. It's a good thing the book is waterproof because I sure drool a lot.

Daddy's girl

I love my daddy soooo much!
Do you see the red sock on my hand? Let me tell you a funny story. I cut my finger and it was bleeding everywhere. It didn't hurt at all so I wanted to keep playing. It was funny to watch mommy run around the house trying to figure out how to get a bandaid to stay on my finger. The first one didn't stay on at all so she put a bandaid on and then taped it to my tiny finger. My finger was huge with all that tape on it. It felt funny so I thought that I could make it feel better by putting it in my mouth. But mommy wouldn't let me so I got MAD. Then I got a sock to suck on. I guess this was my first ouchie. Thank goodness that daddy came home to make it all better.

Watch me grow

Playful and talkative Clara. She's tons of fun to watch.

So Big, So Tall

Clara's getting cuter every day, and we're getting to see more and more of her personality. She loves to stand up and survey her "Claratory" just to make sure that her parents are still watching her. Although she looks around for us, she often forgets that we are holding her and gets startled when we talk to her.





Clara loves playing the piano on Jim's knee. She looks up at the music and follows his fingers as he's playing. She's finally strong enough to push the keys down. She gets so excited when she makes music that she giggles and squeals. She learned how to make high pitch squeals last week at church when the choir was singing the high notes... of course when everyone was quietly praying.



Night night sleepy head. Beary gets wrestled with and then becomes Clara's pillow.

Piano time

Clara has been busy this past week. She really enjoys music whether it's listening to mom sing nursery rhymes, watching "Mr. Shine" perform at the mall, or trying to help dad play the guitar or piano. Clara is already marching to her own beat and starting to play her own tune.

Look at what I did before mom started this blog

Hiking up to Mitchell Lake

Mountain Day!!! That means a happier mom, happier baby, and happier dad. It was raining when we got to Brainard lake so Jim and I had a car picnic.









Then the rain let up so mom wrapped up my head so we could hike up a mile to Mitchell lake.










Once we got to the lake mom let me stand for awhile and dad got a chance to kiss my forehead.


Tonight was my first night in my highchair. There were towels on both sides of me because I just don't quite fit in it yet.

Clara 's typing

Clara is sitting tall on my lap while I am typing... and wanting to type you a message...
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"The keyboard sure makes fun sounds when I type".







Clara enjoyed celebrating Tish's birthday last Saturday, getting to meet Aunt Pat, and seeing daddy all week. Jim surprised me with flowers and surf-n-turf meal Monday night. We got to have a 5 hour meal with Clara's bath and bedtime between courses. Jim's been busy on his week off between cleaning the garage and giving me a Clara break.



Miss Munchie thinks she's hungry again even though she just spit up so we may try bath time instead.

Video of Clara talking

Sarah & Chris Bielinski wedding

Tonight we went to a great wedding at Boecher
Mansion up at the top of Lookout Mountain. Clara got to where her party dress that was a gift from Mark and Paula. She's developing quite the playful personality and loves to eat her toes!

Clara was great during the chilly outdoor ceremony. She talked and played with everyone around
her and only got overwhelmed by the music a few times. She even fell asleep with blaring music when she was wrapped up in the sling while we ate dinner. She only slept for about 15 minutes, but it was too cute to see her be a noodle.

Such a big girl

Tonight Clara decided to help
hold her own bottle.
Too cute!
Today was a pretty quite day with playing, rolling, and mom writing thank you's.

Clara loves playing with her toes, eating rice cereal, and rolling over. She is just starting to "swim" which I guess means that crawling will be coming soon so we'll have to start child proofing the house. Yipes, mobile child! I like being able to take her in the car seat or sling whenever we want to go so that will be a change.

Clara's now 4 months old

t's hard to believe that Clara's already 4 months old. We just had her doctor visit where we found out that she weighs 12 pounds 3 ounces which puts her at 25% for weight. She's already 24 inches long.

Clara had her 4 month shots on April 15th. She got really
sleepy an hour after the doctor appointment. Jim took this picture when I was at work on the 16th, fever day. The fever only got up to 100.2, but Clara got a few doses of Tylenol and a few baths to cool her down

She loves playing with her toes, eating rice cereal, and rolling over. She is just starting to "swim" which I guess means that crawling will be coming soon so we'll have to start child proofing the house. Yipes, mobile child! I like being able to take her in the car seat or sling whenever we want to go so that will be a change.

Clara's already developed quite the personality. She's got a pout that will melt your heart, screams when she's not done playing yet, and belly laughs at funny faces. She's still our "Content Clara", except during the "I'm hungry" evening hours. We hope that evenings will be a little easier now that she will take formula.

Well since this is my first blog I guess I also wanted to share the major events of 2007....
+ Clara was born April 14th, 2007 at 4:15 in the afternoon. She weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces.
+ Jim and I both turned the big 30 this year. I arranged for Jim's college friend Kurt to fly in for his birthday and then threw him a surprise Indian BBQ party with about 45 people on the big day.
+My sister Val came out to visit for a week in June so she's had a little time to play with Clara, but I know that she would love to be closer.

Well hopefully this works because I'd like to keep all of you updated with our new little family more often.
Toodles, Tricia