Stinky feet!

For many months now my mom has played this game with Clara where she smells Clara's feet and then makes a big deal of the fact that they stink (they don't really stink though). Clara has always thought it was really funny, and recently she has started to play the game with herself. The other night I was able to capture it on video. A lot of her words these days sound very similar, but we're pretty sure she is saying "smell" as she lifts her foot to her nose.

Long overdue - Clara's birthday!

Our sweet girl turned one at the end of October! I know I'm very late in sharing pictures, but we had her party just a week after moving into our new house. Now that things are finally settling down I feel like I can catch up on posting some of these events.

She opened presents (with a little help)...

Her Nana (my mom) made her a panda bear cake. This is my family's tradition for first birthdays. The birthday boy/girl gets the cake all to themselves. Typically they demolish it, once they realize that it's not a stuffed animal.

Clara, however, did not demolish hers, as you can see. She had a few little tastes of it and then she decided it was more fun to feed it to daddy. This is her cake after she was finished with it. Nana, we hope you don't feel like you wasted your time making it for her. We did enjoy eating it later in the week.

And since we had her party on Halloween we finished by dressing her up in her costume. It was too cold to go trick-or-treating, but we did go next door and say hi to the only neighbors we had met so far. They gave her a mini candy bar, which mommy and daddy ate.

Happy birthday, Clara! We love you!

Reaching new heights

Clara has recently taken an interest in our kitchen stool. She's discovered that she can climb up onto it all by herself and get into a standing position, which she finds very exciting! Don't worry, grandmas and grandpas, I don't let her stand there unattended (unless I want to take pictures of her).

We are definitely realizing more and more that she is becoming a "big girl" and learning new things all the time.

And this picture just cracks me up...

I found the two of them like this yesterday morning. Clara isn't really playing, although she thinks she is. She loves anything with buttons so she thought it was pretty great when daddy took the battery out of the controller and let her use it.

30 weeks!

I can't quite believe we're already to 30 weeks in this pregnancy! Between taking care of busy little Clara and settling in to our new house I've been so busy I haven't been able to focus much on this pregnancy. Our little girl should now be about 15 1/2 inches long and weigh almost three pounds. Jeremy asked me the other night if I'm growing another wild one in there and I had to say yes. This little one moves just as much as Clara did I think!