July wrap up

July just flew by! Jeff actually had off for the entire 4th of July weekend, but we didn’t really do a whole lot but relax.  We met up with Mary and Audrey a few times and hit the pool. We had some record breaking heat here which apparently is very rare for Seattle. Everyone keeps [...]

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June wrap up…

It’s so hard to find time to keep up with this blog, so I figured I’d do monthly wrap ups instead.
June was an interesting month for Claire. Lots of development going on. Learning to repeatedly say things like “mine” or “my turn”.  She’s quite a manipulator with the boys at daycare. One of her teachers [...]

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Claire Goes International

It’s been quite some time since I last wrote. We’ve been so busy and I’ve been preoccupied at work, but I don’t want to pass through Claire’s early years without writing notes about what’s going on in her life.  Here’s a bit of a lengthy update of what she’s been up to the last few [...]

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Learning the word no

Claire has gotten on a new streak of using the word “no”.  We ask her questions all the time to see what she has to say, and for the last week or so, every time (just about), it’s no. “Claire, would you like to take a bath…’no’.” “Claire, would you like to get down…’no’.” Kind [...]

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Ear tubes

After three months of consistent ear infections, we finally decided that it would be best for Claire to have ear tubes put in. The long-term effects if we didn’t do surgery weren’t good, so we went for it. She went in on Monday morning. Jeff and I were a bit worried for a few reasons.

She [...]

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Blah, blah, blah…now ball, bye, baby…

After 16 months of talking  to myself, my little lady is starting to say real words! Awesome! And she’s picking a new one up daily it seems. Her first words were baby, bye, and ball, but now you tell her to point to her ear, and she points and says “ear”. So she’s getting to [...]

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Washing Hands

Claire’s new daycare is great about teaching kids hygeine. So great, that she actually comes home, climbs up her little step stool to the sink and waits there and yells for us to come wash her hands. It’s adorable. I think she probably just likes playing in the water, but she looks so proud and [...]

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The month of January

What a month it’s been!
So the last post I wrote was about Claire and the pacifier and crying. Well, here’s the story about all of it. She actually started a new daycare called Tree of Life Day Care on January 5. We decided to do a new daycare because we weren’t sure she was getting [...]

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How to get her way

So with all the time off, Claire seemed to get quite comfortable with the one-on-one time, and started figuring out how to get me to do things for her. She’s just starting to get into the crying stage where she cries until she gets what she wants. The big thing is the pacifier. She’s quite [...]

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Snow, snow, and more snow…Christmas 2008

We thought we moved away from the snow by coming out to Washington, but I think it might be following us…..
Jeff has been super busy with working the holidays at his new property (Salish Lodge which overlooks Snoqualmie Falls – gorgeous!), so he hasn’t been able to take much time off, and Claire has had [...]

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