Claire's a "Mean Girl"

We went over the some friends house last night for a BBQ. They have a son who is 11 months old and a real peanut. His the cutest little boy ever. Claire and Micah were getting along great until he put his pacifier in his mouth. See, Claire never liked nor used a pacifier so what was about to take place the rest of the evening was just amazing to Eric and I. As soon as she saw that pacifier in his mouth, she wanted it. It started out all nice and cute, they were sharing the paci, handing back and forth. Claire then would take the paci and try to feed Micah. (She loves feeding her babies). Then all of a sudden, "mean girl" appeared and she literally lunged at poor Micah, knocking him over in order to get at his paci. She made him cry. Of course our friends were like it's fine but Eric and I were in shock. She's always so sweet and girly. We really watched her the rest of the evening, just to insure that she wouldn't beat him up and more (which she tried too, a couple more times). We told Micah to go ahead and get her back, she deserves it.

The more Eric and I thought about the whole situation we realized the other baby friend she plays with weekly is a little boy who is way bigger then Claire. Way. Claire is 18.5 lbs and Brayden is over 25lbs. When Claire and Brayden are together, he is the one that is usually dominate, knocking Claire over and being rough. Thinking about that we realized that Claire was finally bigger then someone and she took advantage of it, since she's the one always getting beat up on.

All in all it was a great evening and luckily no baby was injured in the process!

Wordless Wednesday

Eric and I enjoying the beach while Bug takes a snooze!

All About Bug

At 12 months Claire is:

• Talking up a storm!
• She can say: Momma, Dada, Papa, Nana, Night Night, Uh-oh, Puppy, Baby, Bye Bye, Hi, Brayden, Nom Nom, More, Wow, Pretty, Please
•  Walking, even running everywhere.
• Eating everything - she is not a picky eater! Thank goodness!
• Is weaned and is on vitamin D milk.
• Has 7 teeth (4 on top, 3 on bottom)
• Loves to play peek-a-boo!
• Loves to feed her babies and people.
• Her imagination is really starting to show.
• She loves to play out side, especially in her sandbox.
• She loves to go for walks.
• She loves other kids.
• She loves finding the moon.
• She loves her puppies and they love her. They even let her stick her finger up their nose and poke them in the eyes!
• Bath time is one of her favorite times of the day.
• Her bedtime is around 10pm and she wakes up between 8-9am.
• She takes 1 to 2 naps a day.
• Still in size 12 month clothing.
• Size 2 shoes.
• Loves to read - she will grab a book, bring it to you, and then plop right down into your lab.
• She follows directions very well- like asking her to go get you something or asking her to sit down.
• She shrugs her shoulders and puts her arms out when she's all done or her food is all gone.
• She's still wearing cloth diapers (which we love).
• Her hair is getting longer, she is now sporting a pony tail to keep the hair out of her eyes, every day.

Goodbye Boob Milk, Hello Cow's Milk

Well, it's been official for a little over 3 weeks now. Claire is weaned.  No more boob. No more personal closeness that I enjoyed and loved so much. It's weird, really weird. Although Claire was only nursing in the morning in the very end. I miss that feeding. I miss snuggling up to Claire in the morning hours as she nursed. At that time, I was so ready to be done nursing. I knew Claire was too because she would only nurse a couple minutes then pull away and go about her morning routine. Now, 3 weeks later I'm missing it. I don't feel like I lost a connection or a closeness with Claire but I miss that special mommy, daughter moment we shared, even if it was just for a few short minutes every day. Now I make sure we snuggle in the morning a little longer and give extra snuggles through out the day. I'm so proud of myself, my boobs, my milk supply and Claire for nursing for a little over 12 months. It was a great experience, one I know I will definitely try to do again.

On another note, Claire is doing wonderful with cow's milk (vitamin D). She absolutely positively loves it! She gets a cup with breakfast, a cup with dinner and a bottle (or 2) at bed time. We are doing the bottle at bed because she still needs that type of sucking to fall asleep. I'm not worried that she's drinking from a bottle. She just started it 3 weeks ago, give her another month or so and then we will start to wean from that!

12 Month Well-Being Appointment

Claire had her 12 month well being check up last Thursday.

Man, it is getting harder and harder to take her to the doctors. She destroyed the waiting room in a matter of seconds. There were pamphlets on the table, she knocked every single one off the table onto the floor. She was all over the place, she was literally "baby running" every where. Once we got into the room, she was trying to get into everything. Luckily, all the cabinets are out of her reach and the outlets all had plug covers so nothing real could have hurt her.

The doctor said she is doing everything right on schedule and something she's even a little ahead on. She got her chicken pox vaccine and will get her hepatitis A shot in a couple of weeks. She did great, it's hard to believe her year appointment has come and gone! Time is going by so fast!

(Claire's doctor has never really impressed me. She was on-call when Claire was born so that's why we went to her. We are pretty certain we will be switching to a new doctor that has great reviews in our area.)

Claire's 12 month stats:

Born: 6 lbs 7oz
12 months: 18lbs 5oz

Born: 20 inches
12 months: 27.5 inches

She's still a peanut but we think she always will be. I don't think we have a future basketball player on our hands but more like a great little ice skater!

Check out the next post "What's Claire Doing at 12 Months!"

for now enjoy your weekend!

TGIF!

Wish us luck we are taking Claire camping in MI for the first time!! This should be interesting!!

Wordy Wednesday (Vote for Claire)

We entered Claire into the "Gerber Baby Photo Contest"!

If you wouldn't mind, would you please hop on over to the contest and vote for Claire! Her # is 75878!!

Thanks, love you all!

Claire's 12 Month Pictures by LaRoche Photos