7 Months and Growing!

I can't believe that I have been a mom now for just over 7 months! Claire, you are growing so fast and you get more fun everyday! You love to eat her fruits and vegetables, give kisses to dad, and you are the best raspberry-blower around!

You love to sit with mom and dad at the piano and bang out your own tune :)

Daddy showing you how a drum works...

Yep, as you can tell, you got it all figured out!
You think drums are best thing since diaper cream!

Happy Halloween!

This is my fourth year celebrating Halloween with Kelland. Here's our costume lineup-
1st year: We were just dating and I dressed up in crazy orange and black attire.
2nd year: We were Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty. This costume was especially great because it was a Presidential election year. People really liked our costumes!
3rd year: We were the couple from Grease and dressed in 50's attire.

This year, we've added one more person to our group - making matching costumes a little more complicated.

I finally finished our family's Halloween costumes this year! Don't look too close - they are pretty simple, but I'm so relieved to have matching family costumes that I don't even care! Next year, I am not going to procrastinate!

Announcing: The Flintstones!

Check out our cute little Pebbles!

Ah - could my life get any better? Great daughter, great husband, great place to live and lots of room for me to grow! Happy Halloween!

Claire - I took you Trick-or- Treating for the first time... and you only last about 15 minutes. It started raining and it was windy and cold. As I held you walking around you kept whimpering until I gave up and took you home - little diva :)

Today we attending yet another family Halloween party. Dressing up was optional, but if you know us, we are all about dressing up for Halloween. We're theater people - playing "dress up" when we were kids never got old. I still hadn't finished our Halloween costumes yet.... I so decided that we were going to go more casual to the party. All by himself Kelland dressed Claire up. He found a pink jogging suit that someone had given us and made her "boxing gloves" out of mittens we had bought her for the winter. See - no matter what he says, he loves dressing up just as much as I do!

Kelland added the "Everlast" logo to her mittens

I pulled cat ears out of the costume box and added some last minute whiskers.

Kelland wore his own boxing gloves and I gave him a black eye. Well, actually the idea was that Claire had given him the black eye...

Please acknowledge Kelland's cheesy grin - he's just a little excited about Halloween.

Halloween Carnival!

Uncle Darren and Aunt Jolynn had a fun Halloween Carnival that we went to as a family! We can't wait until you get old enough to enjoy things like this!

Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt

You and Grandpa Schmidt

You and Amy!

Four Generations

Great-grandma celebrate her 90th birthday and we were able to get a four generation picture!

Big Girl Poop

Claire, I just wanted to official document the day that you had your first big-girl poop. Now that we have started feeding you solids, your diapers are different. When dad went to change you he said, "Whew! It stinks! It smells like a real poop!" So - congrats on growing up and becoming a little more stinky and aware of your body everyday :)

Livin' the College Life!

Claire, you do so great when we take you to college with us! We take turns watching you while the other one is in class and we pass you back and forth all day! You love the attention and you're such a happy little girl towards all the other students that stop to say hi.

We like to spend a lot of our time in the non-traditional student center - and the people there just love you! They don't know our names, but everyday they ask, "Claire, how are you today?"

You love the massage chairs in the non-trad center! Way better than any bouncer!