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Claire and I were just relaxing last night and I was messing around with the camera. All of a sudden she started smiling. I took as many shots as I could get. These are by far my favorite pictures of her yet. They are so cute and I am so excited that I took them.
Nothing new in the household this week so far. We have no plans for the next couple of days except to relax. Claire has been doing really good. Here are some more pics. We hope you all enjoy and our family wishes everyone a Happy New Year.
Here are a few pics of Claire sleeping. Over the last 3 days she has been sleeping a lot less. We have had a lot of fun with her being awake. I have been trying to make her smile but no luck yet. I got to snap these pictures of her while she was taking a 20 minute nap with me yesterday.
Here are a few pictures of Claire on Christmas day. They did not come out as good as we hoped, but we tried. They are still cute but I think Sara and I are trying to be professional photographers. I have discovered in taking all of these pictures that I need to save for a good......really good digital camera.
The funniest thing happened the other night. Sara and I were sitting with Claire on the couch watching Fred Claus. I told Sara that the outfit that Santa's assistant was wearing in the movie would look really good on her and then all of a sudden Claire let out this "He He" laugh. We know it was not real laugh (probably gas) but it was the funniest thing. Sara and I laughed about that for while.
Our love to everyone!
Our best attempts to take pictures of Claire in her stocking
Claire in her afternoon Christmas outfit in front of the tree
Claire in her morning Christmas outfit at her Nanny's house on Christmas
Mommy and Claire
The Christmas family portrait
Claire and Nanny
Well it is Christmas Eve and we are just relaxing at the house. My last day of work was yesterday. I am out until Jan. 5th! I am excited to stay at home and relax with my girls.
I am sorry that we have not posted any pictures the last week or two. We have had problems after problems and just have not had the time. Our septic tank backed up for the 2nd time in three months last Friday. We may be looking at a very costly repair. I have had a few people come out and give us estimates. I need to do some digging in the yard on vacation to find out the problem. Lets hope it is not a $6k problem and more like a $600 problem. Then this week the car would not turn over. I think that it was just because it was really cold but who knows. Luckily I popped the clutch on it and away we went. It is now parked in the garage and we are waiting on warmer weather to see if it starts up.
Claire is doing really great. Last Friday she went to the doctor to get weighed. She had gained 8 ozs in a week. She is now up to 5lbs. 13ozs. She is eating so well. Some days she will eat really often and other days she eats bigger amounts but not as often. As the doctor said, if she wants to eat let her eat. She has not been sleeping as much as she used to. She was up for about 5 hours last night with Sara. She is so cute to watch her sit there and just look around. She likes it when hold and let her sit up with me on the couch and look around the room. She just lays against me and just looks all around. If I talk to her she will look up and me and just stare at me until I stop talking. She is so perfect. She really is not very fussy at all.
One thing about her that I find so funny is her hands. She has the biggest hands and longest fingers. She is only two weeks old. I am just baffled by the size of them. They are so cute. Wait.....everything about her is cute!
Well this is it for now. We have a lot to do on Christmas tomorrow. We are going to Sara's Moms for early dinner and then to Heather and Justin's for late dinner. My mom is cooking late dinner tomorrow night. I am sure we will take so many new pictures on Christmas and the days to come that it will make up for the lack of pictures over the last week or so. Make sure to leave Santa cookies and the reindeer carrots (to our Aussie readers; what do you leave the kangaroos?). Santa has a lot of houses to visit and he needs all the fuel he can get.
Our love to all,
Jason and Sara
Claire being a big girl in her boppy
Taking a nap
Woo Hoo its Christmas
Isn't she cute!
This is her pack and play. Her chill out spot
Spotted Claire
Claire has the funniest sleeping positions
I am very sorry to all of our readers for not putting a post up earlier. We have been very busy getting adjusted to life at home. I went back to work Friday and Saturday. Mom and Claire are doing so good and getting better and better every day. We have so much going on I really do not even know where to start. Claire had her first doctors appointment on Saturday. Everything went great. She gained a whole 2 ounces. Sara and Mom loved the doctor. The doctor said everything looks really well with Claire and she is pleased with her progress.
Ok lets start with Claire's updates. Claire has been eating great. She has increased the amount she is eating and we have had no issues with her getting sick anymore. She has been a very very quiet baby also. When she does fuss she either likes to be sung to, have all the lights on so she can look around, change her, or feed her. It really has been as easy at that. I am sure that things will change but right now we are enjoying it.
Sara is doing really well as well. We git a really good night sleep last night. Claire slept about 3 1/2 to 4 hours in between feedings last night. It was really nice to get all that sleep.
So that is it from the house now. We are watching some football and getting ready to eat a big dinner my mom is cooking. When Claire wakes up I am going to try and get some more pictures and get them up on the site. I think since it is football Sunday Claire needs to be wrapped in one of daddy's football jerseys.
Our love to all!
PS - I was just told that if I do not give credit to Aunt Melanie for the help with picking out Claire's middle name then I would never hear the end of it. LOL! We thank you very much Aunt Melanie! Courtney and Aunt Marilyn helped as well......so we can't give Aunt Melanie ALL the credit.
Claire and daddy's first Sunday together (getting our sleep for football!)
Claire looking cute
Claire and her big brother Wes
Claire taking a nap 
