Celebrating Earth Day

Grace and I celebrated Earth Day last week at her school. We took part in planting flowers and trees on the playground. The little kids were so cute planting and watering. You would never guess little ones could do so much for our earth.

Claire is 6 Months Old!!

Life with 2 has not settled down any as you can tell from my lack of blogging lately. Grocery store, laundry, doctor appts, etc have all kept me running these past few weeks.

Claire is such a sweet, cuddly baby. Claire Bear is the perfect nickname for her. We went to the doctor this morning and she was 17 pounds 6 oz (80% - she's leaned out since her 4 month appt), 27 inches long (90%), and her head was 44.25 cm (also 90%).

She's eating solids twice a day and we are going to work on sneaking in lunch pretty soon. She's eating cereal, bananas, pears, apples, peaches, prunes, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and green peas.

She is finally rolling from tummy to back and back to tummy. This took longer than I expected probably because of her extra rolls.

She's sleeping about 11 hours a night with a good morning nap and a not-so-good afternoon nap. Afternoon naps are hard because I pick Grace up at 3. I'm sure the naps will switch when Grace is home for the summer and she'll end up taking a better afternoon nap than morning.

No teeth yet, but as you can see from the picture below, she's drooling quite a bit. They are coming!


She loves her big sister and smiles and lights up when Grace is around. When Grace dances for her, she'll let out a huge belly laugh. Grace should have been around while I was taking these pictures to help me get her to smile.

Sleeping Baby

There isn't anything much cuter than a sleeping baby. Especially when she decides to kick her leg up on the bumper.

Easter Weekend Fun

We enjoyed such a nice, long weekend here at home with warm weather.

Grace helped me make carrot cupcakes for our Easter dessert.



We dyed Easter eggs (and fingers!).




We had a visit from the Easter bunny and ate way too much candy. Note for next year: don't put candy in the Easter basket. I do think candy is a vital part of Easter celebrations, but we'll save it for the egg hunt AFTER church.




We hunted eggs several times - at home and church.




We smashed some cascarones. Poor Claire - she'll get her back one day!




All my pictures have been of Grace so far since she's obviously more active. But Claire has been just her sweet laid back self. She is finally sleeping through the night. We've added sweet potatoes to her diet of milk, cereal, and apples. And she's loving every minute of it.

Happy Easter!!