She's standing tall at 11 months!
Her favorite thing to do now seems to be a cross between walking and reading. She's taken a few steps here and there, but really likes her walker or to have someone hold her hands. It won't be long now!
She is also a big fan of peek and seek, where mommy hides on one side of the ottomans and she crawls back and forth to play peek-a-boo from the other side.More of an update to follow later, plus pictures (finally) from the past month or so off of my phone camera. She's getting into things at the moment, so I'd better run for now!
Claire was so exited to play with dogs her own size for a change. Here she is crawling around with Mamaw's dachsund Bozo.
Here are the four generations. None of us really felt like having our picture taken early in the morning as we were getting packed up and heading home, but as is often the case with these sorts of trips, we took the cameras and meant to take pictures, but didn't manage to really take many pictures at all.
This, by the way, is what sometimes happens when you pray as I did. Geoff had always wanted at least two children, but after the complications conceiving and carrying Claire I was convinced that A) we wouldn't be able to have any more children, and B) I didn't want any more children. But I knew how much Geoff wanted another child and so in March I began to pray that if God wanted to bless Geoff with another child, that He would change my heart about it. I shared that prayer and story with a close friend in early May not even knowing at the time that Geoff and I had already conceived! Baby "E" will be able to be a constant reminder to me to always keep my heart and mind open to whatever God may want to bless me with.
