8 months

Stats:
19 lbs 3 oz
28 1/2 in
17 1/4 in head





Claire is such a sweetie and loves to be around people now. When I take her to LLL meetings, she is happy to spend 2 hours playing on the floor with tons of kids, smiling at anyone that will look her way. She goes through short phases of being afraid of something random. One day, it was a mesh laundry bag. Another day, some kids banged on our door and she became scared when a door opened, like when Hyrum came home. She crawled as fast as she could into my lap, hugged me, and looked towards where the sound was coming from! She is still frightened of loud noises, like ripping tape off of plastic or the paper shredder, but within the last few days she is totally fine when we vacuum as long as she is wearing her pink protective headphones. Until yesterday, she could only twist her left arm back, which she did every time we tried to put her shirt on, but she has suddenly figured out how to do it with her right arm too. She LOVES taking showers with me, and it's a good thing since the doc wants us to avoid baths until her molloscum clears up. Which, by the way, went crazy and is everywhere. We took her yesterday to have her blistered from her neck to her ankles and I am still so grateful that is doesn't seem to hurt her. She is an expert at making funny faces and looking super cute.
No more pictures, please!
See? She has some hair.




She loves drinking water from her sippy...
But is still trying to figure out how to do it herself.
I love how she crosses her feet while in the highchair
I think she signed "more" for the first time here! She did it a few times after this, but I'm still not positive that is what she's doing
She still likes everything we feed her, but she really loves broccoli

And to make her daddy so proud, she ate up the olives. She feeds herself pretty much everything, except applesauce
Despite the face, she really loves oranges and she crawled as fast as she could into his lap when she saw them
She has recently become fascinated with the stairs and spends a lot of time doing this
Thankfully, this is as far as she's gotten!
We also have a lot of this going on, on pretty much everything (couch, exersaucer, my legs)


When I ask now if she wants to nurse, if she's really enthusiastic she comes over and starts yanking on my shirt. We were in a fabric store yesterday and she was sitting in the cart. All of sudden, she started pulling my shirt down! It was pretty funny, so I just nursed her while she sat in the cart and I picked out flannel. Worked fairly well. I love my sweet little girl!