Claire Bear is 1 year old!!!

Wow!!! This time last year we were at Kaiser Roseville anxiously anticipating the birth of our baby. Finally we were going to meet our baby girl or baby boy. Would it be "slugs and snails and puppy dog tails" or "sugar and spice and everything nice"? My first real surprise!! Those who know me well know that I'm a planner. I'm not big on surprises. I used to unwrap and re-wrap my Christmas presents when my mom was asleep! This was the one time I was going to have an honest to goodness surprise!


On July 11th at 2:18 A.M. we met our beautiful baby girl Claire Madeline!! She was 8 lbs, 3 oz and 22 inches long. I will never forget the first time I held her in my arms. All my exhaustion disappeared and was replaced with the most amazing love I have ever known.

Fun Facts about Claire:

She has 8 teeth

She likes to make silly gulping noises

She makes the loudest, shrillest squeals

She loves swimming and can now go under the water without freaking out

She's very close to walking! She can walk while using one hand to hold ours.

She loves to play pots and pans

She likes Chinese food-potstickers are her favorite!

She has been breastfed a whole year!! We are still going strong :)

She is typically very smiley and giggly!

She loves to talk and even talks in her sleep sometimes!

This past month:

We went to Fairytale Town...

Celebrated the 4th of July!

Went to Muir Woods...

Spent a weekend in San Francisco

For some reason I only took a few pictures and they were all in Chinatown



 

Claire's 1st Birthday!!

Claire celebrated her first birthday with mom, dad, big sisters (Kiana & Sisily) and some close friends-Linda & Wade, Anita and Jonalin & Alice.

We enjoyed some yummy cupcakes!

Claire was sung Happy Birthday for the very first time!

Claire got to devour her cupcake! She did pretty well and didn't make as much of a mess as I had anticipated. Nothing a few wipeys couldn't take care of!

She was hesitant at first but then really got into it!

Claire had fun playing with Alice! Thank you Jonalin!

Kiana (16), Linda and Sisily (12)

Wade, Claire and Linda

Claire playing with Anita! She loves playing with Anita! 

After her cupcakes we (Claire, Alice, Jonalin and I) spent the afternoon swimming. The girls loved it! I remember last summer Jonalin would come over to visit and go swimming with me because I was so pregnant and uncomfortable. Now, we are both swimming with our daughters! Amazing!

It was a great first birthday!

She was all tuckered out after a long day of celebrating her birthday!

She still has one more party to go though...

We will be heading down to Brawley

for her big birthday party with all of the family next weekend.

We will be braving the sweltering heat to enjoy celebrating with our family.

Thank goodness for air conditioning!!

We'll post pics of her Very Hungry Caterpillar in a few weeks!

Happy 1st Birthday Claire!!

Mommy and Daddy love you so much!!