Lots of Kisses

Claire has started smiling and babbling so much more lately. She's giving full on grins that are so adorable! I still trying to catch it on video and photos.

Claire is also sleeping longer at night (up to 9 hours) and sleeping in her crib in her own room as of Friday. Unfortunately though, her schedule has gotten screwed up and I'm having a hard time getting her to bed before 10 p.m. to midnight. It's making for very long nights for me. I usually get about 10-15 min to myself at night. I know this is a stage but I can't wait till it passes.

Natalie is such a great big sister. She loves to share her doll, Baby, with Claire and have Baby do whatever Claire is doing -- lay on the mat, tummy time.

Natalie's kisses to Claire are always so adorable! She just grazes her cheek with her lips.

Natalie is getting so big. She now is saying a lot of two word sentences -- Papa home, Papa cook, Help me, Mama do, etc. She's also going through a very independent stage and when she doesn't want to eat something we give her or something, she throws her food again. We're working on trying to get her to stop but she finds it funny so it's been a little difficult.

We moved Claire out of her infant sling in the bath into the full infant bath tub. She loves it. She's splashes all around while giving huge smiles. Natalie does a great job helping to give her a bath!

We got some snow recently (melted pretty quickly) but Natalie and Papa had enough time to make her first snowman. It fell over before I could get a photo of it.

We tried putting Claire in the Bebepod chair. She did ok in it the first time but we're going to wait till she's a little stronger. But Natalie loved trying out the chair again. What a difference from the last time she was in it!

Our little ballerina

Natalie's started enjoying dressing up. Oma and Opa got her a leotard and tutu that she is having fun dancing around in. She looks so cute. There is a kids music station on TV that she dances to. Unfortunately, she didn't dance once I turned on the video camera.

(Not sure why the video is looking black but if you hit play they start up anyways).

Claire falls asleep so much easier than Natalie did at her age. She's actually already sleeping up to 9 hours at a time at night. Natalie didn't do that until we did sleep training with her at 6 months old. She even falls asleep on the play mat if I don't catch on to her sleep cues fast enough.

Claire is getting so much better at lifting her head during tummy time. It's still not her favorite past-time but hopefully in the next month she'll figure out how to roll from her tummy to back when she gets frustrated with it.

Happy Birthday Papa!

Happy 35th Birthday Emile! Papa celebrated his birthday yesterday. Unfortunately he had to work but we opened presents when he got home and I made a Vanilla Butter Cream with White Chocolate Ganache cake. We went out to dinner for crab this evening. The girls did great at the restaurant. And Natalie loved crab!

Natalie loves to play house in the fort I made her in her bedroom. She's asked for it to be built for the last few days.


And here are some more photos of the girls hanging out.

Claire is 2 months old!

Claire is 2 months old today! She also had her doctor's appointment today. Dr. Loibissio said she's doing great. She's up to 11 lbs. 10 oz. (now up to the 75th percentile) and 21" long (dropped down to the 5th percentile). Dr. Loibissio said it was pretty normal to grow in weight and not lenght one month and then to grow in lenght the next. But Claire may be are short one :). Her head is still in the 55th percentile which has been very consistent. Luckily this time she didn't go to the bathroom on me when I put her on the scale. She got two shots today and as expected, cried pretty hard. It's always so hard to see your little girls cry. And finally, I got a photo of her little smile. You can see in the photo above how subtle her smile is but so adorable!