Claire

Yesterday was picture day--for both Claire and Summer. Summer got a new dress for her pictures, and Claire wore her blessing dress. They both looked so pretty! Rhett got a few of Claire that I thought looked so adorable. (Especially with her smile.)
My mom picked out the dress, and I think it fits her perfectly!

Miscellaneous

Summer talking:
Summer reading:
Claire staring:

Happy 6-Week Birthday Claire!

I can't believe it has been six weeks! Already Claire is growing so much and getting so big. Usually after a nice meal, she is quite content and gives us some beautiful smiles. We love it. She is also awake and alert more now than she has been before. She has started cooing, and we just love hearing her little voice. And just yesterday, as I walked across the room, I saw her eyes follow me as I went. She's just growing up so fast!

I finally got the pictures loaded, so here are some of her . . .

Saying hello . . .
Just chillin' (with killer red-eye) . . .

And cautiously awaiting those dreaded footsteps from big sister . . .

It seems that when Summer is sleeping and Claire's awake, Claire smiles and relaxes. But the moment she hears Summer's voice or her running footsteps, her brow furrows and she gets this worried look on her face (like in the first picture). Summer just loves her. Here she is reading a book to Claire . . .

And clipping her nails with her fake nail clippers (a binder clip) . . .And just talking . . .
We love our girls!

Life at the Barney's

Well, now the great debate is whether to post when not all my pictures have loaded, or to wait. I originally uploaded Summer's pictures first, then was planning on uploading Claire's. But, of course, the internet wigs out as I'm trying to upload Claire's. So, Claire, we love you just as much as Summer, but I guess you'll just have to wait until later.

Andrew and Maria came to visit us this weekend. I was in the bedroom feeding Claire, and when I came out, they showed me what Summer had done--without anyone showing her or anything. I guess she threw one at the wall and it landed like that, so she started picking out all the cylinders and putting them up like this. (And she got ALL the cylinders plus one little square block.) We all thought it was hilarious.


So when I tell people her hair is a mess when she wakes up, I'm not exaggerating . . .
A few days ago, she put her jacket on, put on my purse, waved goodbye, and went into the kitchen (like she does when she's playing "going to the store").
Summer loves her bath letters.

Summer came home from nursery a few Sundays ago with this. Her first picture that she colored from nursery, so of course, we had to hang it on our fridge and blog about it.

And . . . the moment you've all been waiting for . . . (and some have even called and bugged me till I told them . . .):
The first picture is Claire.
The second is Summer.

Christmas

We had a great Christmas--the first year we spent it as our own little family. Rather than setting up the Christmas tree in the beginning of December and having to keep Summer away from it all month, we decided to set it up Christmas Eve--that way Christmas morning she could wake up to gifts and a tree with lights. When she did wake up Christmas morning, she loved the lights on the tree, but as soon as Claire made a little squeak, Summer got distracted and ran over to Claire and said, "Bebe! Bebe!"

Summer had a good time opening gifts. On some of her gifts, she was so excited she had to run over and show Claire what she got.


Here is Summer opening one of her gifts from Aunt Kate. Katelyn had given her a container with hair bands. Summer's gasped and her jaw dropped in awe. Then she patted her head for us to put them in. She was excited about them.

Dad got Summer dressed on Christmas day and put her in one of her Christmas outfits. We thought it was cute.

New matching pajamas from Grandma Kartchner. Summer's fit perfectly, and Claire will grow into her's.


The hat to Summer's new pj's. She was excited about the hat and had to put it on ASAP.
And can you guess who is who?