Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Happy 1st Birthday Claire Elaine!

Oh what a day it has been. Our sweet girlie is one year old. Brings a tear to my eye . . . how could it already be a year? A what a year it has been!

So this morning Claire woke at the crack of dawn and I changed her and tried to get her back to sleep . . . ha. Then Mike got up and went to work in the garden and I knew Claire hadn't slept enough especially since she doesn't like to nap etc. So we crawled back into bed like we used to when she was younger and hung out and eventually took a little nap together. Then Daddy brought Mommy breakfast in bed and we were off on our big day of adventures.

We started off with presents . . .

Her presents before she began

Her presents once she took a taste of a few *you can see a little bite out of the one on top in front)

And the unwrapping began . . . sort of . . . she was really good at Christmas with the unwrapping thing but not so much this time. :(

As you can see she is sorting out the BLUE boat. What is it with this girlie and blue?

Another taste of a present - this one was leftover from Christmas that never got opened and I just didn't feel like wrapping it again - and besides, it was to Claire and Mommy from Daddy so I didn't know what it was (he was the one who suggested we keep it until her birthday).

Opening presents with Daddy

She got a couple of pretty books that she stopped to read.

This is her new hippo stool for the bathroom that she is trying to figure out. (she doesn't know it but she got a potty too)

Trying out her hippo push car.

Stopping to crawl under the table and terrorize Hazel.

Her birthday cake that she can't play with for a couple of years but Mommy likes so much.

Here she is one her way back from visiting Hazel again.

Her cupcake to go with the theme of the week. And she had to stop and "wink" at Daddy.

Hazel's cupcake for being such a good dog and to help celebrate.


I will work on posting more later tonight or tomorrow. did I mention Claire is teething? She now has seven and from the sounds of it working on number eight. Poor little girlie.

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