itsallaboutlove...

My dear friends, David and Lora, are ready for children. Unfortunately, they can't have any of their own. Apparently adoption is better spread by word of mouth than by just waiting around. So, I wanted to advertise for them! All of you reading my wonderful blog get to click here to see their profile. That way, if you know of someone who is not able to care for their children and need some help, you can let them know of this wonderful couple.

thanks for reading!

deb

sigh...

My new little fetus has made me pretty miserable. I'm not so good at being prego, but I'm trying to be. So far: three hospital visits and 20lbs lost. I feel like I should be on some sort of weight loss program, but gotta say, barfing up everything you eat (and everything you don't eat---bleh), isn't the best way to maintain health. I try and stay so busy that I don't remember to barf, it helps some days and not others.

Claire is having a blast with her daddy. She and he have developed a way to toss a ball. Basically, Nick stands at the bottom of the stairs and Claire throws things to him and he to her. I often find piles of things at the bottom of the stairs thanks to this arrangement. I guess practice makes perfect!

Claire is finally getting her eye teeth! She's been pretty crabby with these. Hope they come in fast!

18 month check up

Claire was weighed and measured:

weight: 22.6 lbs, 25%
height: 32 inches, 50%

She's growin'! She points at my belly and signs "baby", then she kisses it and tries to find my belly button with her finger. what a doll.

12 weeks...

Wow, it's been interesting...

Here we go for another one!

Merry Christmas!

My baby is so sweet. When we (Nick and I) went to New Jersey for Nick's work, we left Claire with Grammy Krista (Nick's Mom). She had these photos taken and then gave them to us for Christmas to give out as Christmas cards. Guess what happened to them? We have NO IDEA! AGH! So, you have to get this version until we either find those that were lost or we make our own copies of these cute things. Sure love you all. Merry Christmas!


Historical significance of these photos: the reindeer was Nick's when he was a boy and the dress was Mandee's for her first Christmas. Cute, eh?

house part II

Some one asked for additional pics of our house. There isn't much more than you've seen, but here are the last rooms with the exception of Claire's room. I don't have a pic of that yet. And she's sleeping or I'd go grab one...he he

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3rd bedroom

family room, great carpet, eh? (trying not to puke!)

All of these were taken by my lovely assistant Savvy, but in the "we just moved in TODAY" look, so this isn't the offical set up.

first bandaid...

Claire was in the garage 'helping' Daddy when she pushed on some very heavy driving ramps. Down she toppled and so did the ramps! She started to scream, and Dad picked her up. He held her close and kissed her "owie". Then checked to make sure everything was still 'working'. I hear all of this happen and come in to find Claire crying/whimpering and Nick saying:

"Your elbow is still working, your leg is still working, your toes are still working," etc. He says all this while bending each appendage to ensure mobility and attention to detail. te he. isn't he great?

All it really ended up happening was that C got really scared and a big scrape on her finger. But her Daddy kissed it better and put a bandaid on it.

Now she'll walk up to us and say: "owie" and put her hand to our mouths to kiss it better. Yesterday she even said "owie" and then kissed it herself. I love my baby!

young musician...

Whenever I am teaching, Claire stands by my legs and says, "Uhp, Uhp, Uhp,". If I actually pick her up (because the babysitter hasn't arrived yet or some other reason), she tries to play the piano, carefully selecting a group of notes and then pounding the daylights out of them. I guess she wants to be like Momma.

homes...

c helping with packing...This was our home for almost four years. It was hard to move out.

so, here's the house...it's pretty deceiving from the front of it...so don't worry at first glance...


front room/ music room




upstairs...

there's a kitchen,

a bathroom,

our bedroom,













More to come...

It's been fun setting up our new home. Hard to believe we made this change. I still start to drive to our other home on a regular basis. I miss the friends and ward members from that area. I've already been approached to join the ward choir in our new ward by like six people. Which is good and I will be doing it, but it's weird not to be the choir director. Nick hasn't made it to our new ward yet. We've been in the ward for three weeks (today October 25, 2009---which is a different date from when the post was started so, it still looks like we've been here shorter than we have.) and the first week was General Conference, the second week Nick was gone for work and I had to face the ward by myself! aargh! and then this week is stake conference. Weird, eh? Hopefully we'll become more involved soon.

new home...

Well, it's true! We bought a home and now we live in it. I can't find my sd card reader to upload pics, but they'll come. Claire loves the stairs and we see her slide down on her tushy regularly. Downstairs is YUCKY, but that's good because then we can work toward newer carpet and an extra bathroom! te he.