Keepin' 'em comin'

So many cute pictures of my baby girl, I just thought I'd keep 'em coming... With brown bear when I did her hats photo shoot the other day
Seriously, does it get any better than this?

At the doctor's office before her six month shots (her Mimi says this is the most beautiful picture of her to date). :)

At the doctor's office after her six month shots - Poor baby. (FYI, I had the camera at the ready when I put her back in her seat because I had said something to her Mimi about taking a before and after shot - I was not sitting there fiddling with the camera while she suffered.)

New shoes to help her in her newest quest to get moving!

We think it might be about time to put away the bouncy seat. It's becoming a bit of a hazard since she's decided she would rather sit up straight and tall now than recline...

Her favorite toy is on her toy shelf - Irving (or the Putty as we call him). He seriously LOVES to play with Claire. He's always laying right beside her when she plays or watching from overhead if she's on the floor. He lets her pull his hair, whiskers, ears and tail without complaining a bit, but the other day he did run away when she bit him - and she doesn't even have teeth yet!

This Girl Looks Good in Hats

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We had fun today with a little hat modeling. Enjoy! (FYI, there are about 2 dozen more photos and ALL of them turned out this cute!)

I wanna be like daddy!

Six Months

Martha Claire is six months old! It's so hard to believe half a year has come and gone for our little one. She is growing and changing so much every day. She loves to eat anything and everything now, though she still has no teeth (pretty sure they're coming soon, though). She's very into texture - touching and grabbing at everything. The cat doesn't even seem to mind it when she pulls out clumps of his fur in a very energetic mimic of mommy scratching him. She went on her first trip this past week - a beach trip to Charleston where it snowed for the first time in 10 years. No beach pictures this trip due to the weather! She is growing more and more hair every day - a medium brown color, and her eyes are still a mix of brown and blue, but very dark - most of the time they look like a deep olive green. I'm sure there's plenty more updating to share, but mommy's brain is foggy from travel. For now, enjoy the pictures. :)

Will you bee my Valentine? (She's holding a little bumblebee). I took a bunch of these pictures and they all turned out great - that rarely happens!Clean and cuddly from her bath -

wrapped in love in a snuggly towel wrap made for her by my Aunt Kathy.Playtime with Pooh bear in her crib - showing her love for textures, she really likes the way this pooh bear (Merry Christmas from Aunt Gini) feels, and she likes to put him side by side with Eeyore and feel each of them in turn to note the contrast.Eating sweet peas. Mommy makes her food and freezes it. That's going really well so far and she really seems to like everything. We're using the method of feeding a green veggie 2 meals a day plus something else. It really seems to be working. She loves to eat when we eat, so we just feed her whatever we can that she can manage to eat.At Sticky Fingers in Charleston - I didn't take many pictures on this trip. (We spent most of it in the hotel room due to the weather). Notice she is ignoring her sippy cup and is much more interested in drinking out of Pop's water glass.The three gens -
I love the noses - think she's going to look like her mama?
Think her mama looks like Nani?

Phone Photo Digest

Sorry to be so negligent about blogging lately. We have been very busy! She is rolling all the time now, and not sleeping as much as before. She loves to grab at everything and is really into eating - grits, green beans, green peas, sweet potatoes, pears, bananas, apples, yogurt, toast, beets, really just about anything you can name. Mommy is staying busy cooking up some fruits and veggies for this baby and getting her acclimated to real food. We are getting ready to go on our first trip with Nani and Pop! Baby in Blue :)
Play Ball! (She loves this ball which has a ball inside of it that has a bell inside of it)

Aunt Cricker came to stay with us for Mommy's birthday a few weeks ago. It was a great visit! Cricker taught Claire a new song (Way up in the sky, the little birds fly). It was an instant favorite that we all sing a lot now (even Daddy - but don't tell anyone).

Need an instantly happy little girl? Get her naked! (She knows a bath will soon follow and therefore turns on the charm)

As stated above, this girl loves to eat. A particular favorite is pears, and the only thing she doesn't seem crazy about is apple sauce - which we think may be too tart for her - and store bought baby food - which is fine by us because we'd rather make it ourselves. She has had no problem eating anything green and we are using the technique of a green veggie at every lunch and dinner. She does like to help feed herself and Mommy is learning to be patient and let her get messy, because she really does surprisingly well with a spoon if I just let her!

"What? Were you watching that?"

She loves the remote and anything with buttons to push. She continues to love to type on the computer and has now learned to text on Mommy's phone as well. We send notes to Nani and Aunt Gini that look like gobbledigook, but that Mommy is sure mean "I love you" in Clairespeak.

Our newest game is peek-a-boo, which we play with purpose. She's so used to having Mommy around all the time that she's having just a bit of separation anxiety (normal for her age/stage). The other day I noticed, however, that she also worried when this little peekaboo worm was hidden down in his apple. She's still working on learning how to push this button to make him pop back out, but knowing her love for pushing buttons, she'll have it down soon.

Crib Recon

Fun gift from a friend of Geoff's who is a retired Marine (shirt says "Shh! I'm on Crib Recon")
They also gave her one that says "OORAH!" which I think looks so very very cute on her. She looks really serious about her crib assignment in this picture, don't you think?