A Girl and Her Tricks . . .

Not those kinds of tricks . . . sheesh. She has added a few more what we have come to call "Parlor Tricks" to her repertoire.

She is now doing a very good job of standing up. She has to hold on to something and is a bit wobbly but there she is. And to showoff for the cameras, as you can see, she is doing it one handed and turned her head. Fancy! (She is also trying to pull herself up to standing but hasn't mastered that)


And she is on the verge of crawling. Well, I say that and she has been for a few weeks now. She gets up on all fours and rocks and then decides to roll her way to get what she wants. I am expecting crawling any day but still not overly encouraging it. (shh!)


She can grab the camera cord and chew on it . . .


She has four teeth now and judging by this evenings performance at bedtime, there might be five by morning. Poor girl has been miserable at night for over two weeks now. You should feel sorry for Mommy and Daddy too . . . Teething is tough on everybody.


This is Claire's Colonel Sanders impression. We did not put the suds on our poor baby's mouth. She does eat a lot of soap though . . .


And this is how the bubble beard gets on there. I had the bubbles in the bath for her skin and you have to give her something to play with or she starts going for the side of the sink or tub or the faucet or the paper towels or the rinse water bucket etc etc. So we as bad parents took a picture this time before we washed it off for the thousandth time.

Other interesting tricks she has up her sleeve - drinking from a straw, starting to really reach for people, getting faster at catching Hazel, almost getting to sitting from being on her back, and probably much much more that I can't think of. She is after all the best baby ever because she is ours!

And yes, the I ♥ NY onsie is the first outfit Mike and I bought for her. It was on our trip to NYC last March - a trip in which Claire was in attendance but didn't get to see anything. She finally got to wear it!