Clara's Thread!

[finn's mom]

Terry, you are too much! Thank you for your compliments, they always make me feel like a million bucks, even if I think you're way off sometimes, haha. I do love writing, though! I LOVED it in school. No way I can be best mom, though...my lovely mother already holds that spot. But, who knows? Maybe Clara will feel that way about me one day!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Terry, you are too much! Thank you for your compliments, they always make me feel like a million bucks, even if I think you're way off sometimes, haha. I do love writing, though! I LOVED it in school. No way I can be best mom, though...my lovely mother already holds that spot. But, who knows? Maybe Clara will feel that way about me one day!

I only give compliments where compliments are due. Your Mom must be some woman!!

Clara will know, very soon, how lucky she is. Maybe she already does.
{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

[finn's mom]

I only give compliments where compliments are due. Your Mom must be some woman!!

Clara will know, very soon, how lucky she is. Maybe she already does.
{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

She truly is a great woman! My mom, that is. Clara is a great baby! She'll be a great woman one day, too! Here I am, feeling like a million bucks again!



And, I've been working on watching Clara's drowsy signals, and putting her down for naps when she's showing those signs. It's been fascinating! My friend sent me a book that she swears by, and it's becoming my "bible" of sorts, too. At this point, Clara really can only comfortably stay awake for about an hour to an hour and a half. The trick for me is to watch her for cues that she's getting tired...before she becomes overtired and fussy! I've only been doing this for a few days, but have already seen a difference in her disposition while she's awake. It's like night and day! Miraculous.

Today was the first time this week I've gone out with her since trying this out. She always takes a morning nap about 30-45 minutes after waking up in the morning, so as soon as she woke up from that nap, I buckled into her car seat and went to the grocery store. I knew I had a little over an hour to get her back home and into her crib before she got cranky, and I made it! YAY! She is happily snoozing away and I still got my groceries for the week. I know it won't always work out so well, but I'm happy for little successes!

She's also taking a bottle once a day from Dad with no problems at all! It's nice that he can take part in feeding her!

[finn's mom]

This "lil punkin" gown and slippers, "baby's 1st halloween" bib and "my first pumpkin" playset are all gifts from Grammy and Grampy, my parents. We have several Halloween outfits for Clara, so I'm going to put her in something different every day this week. I will be emailing the pictures to my mother and to David at work, and I will post some in here as well. Happy Halloween from the cutest girl in orange.

I love her scared face, hahaha.



The little candy corn crinkles, the cat meows, the ghost squeaks and the spider rattles.



hahahahahahaha



She's holding the handle of the pumpkin!







That's it for today!

[beeniesmom]

OMG! I really need to come back and look at this thread more often. Being overseas right now is no excuse to miss out on this kind of cuteness!!!

[Daisy and Delilah]

You, Mom, and Clara look fantastic, Kari!!! Three generations. Awesome. That little sweetheart is gonna be in pictures some day. She's a star.

[finn's mom]

Thanks, guys! We think Clara's adorable! She's way cuter than we ever were!

She's got a little cold right now. Kinda snotty, coughing a little, sneezing a little, leaky eyes. She's got a doctor's appointment today at 1, though, so hopefully we don't find out that it's something worse. I'll update after we get her back home.

[finn's mom]

Well, we took Clara to the doctor. She doesn't have the flu, thank goodness, but she does have a bit of a virus. Her eardrums looked good, didn't have any weird chest sounds, but she does have a little bit of a red throat, some coughing and sneezing, some congestion and runny eyes (just the consistency of tears, though, nothing thick). Not the best case scenario, but not the worst, either.

She did really well at the visit, too. David was giving her a bottle when the nurse took her temperature, and all she did was sort of make a grunt sound. The only time she cried was when the doctor swabbed her sinuses to test for the flu. I would have yelled, too!

I am proud of my little girl, who has been napping for the last couple hours. She's not been resting well the last couple days, so that's a big deal!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Oh my, my, my what a most adorable little pumpkin!!! What wonderful pictures, Kari!!!!

[finn's mom]

Here's Clara as an LSU Tiger!





And a whitetail deer!

[Husky_mom]

so cute.. haha.. looooved the one you hhahahahahahahha´d.. hilarious

the white tail is so adorable.. and the sad/Crying ones.. lol... you´ll cherish them and laugh everytime.. just too cute not to take a pic of.. hehe

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Oh my! Sad face! Sad face! I love when babies make the sad face! (Obviously not because they're upset, it's just so cute.) Nathan can still kind of make this face, but not as well as he used to. Clara is so adorable in all her costumes.

[Daisy and Delilah]

OMG!!!!!! Can she get any cuter?

Kari, she is absolutely, positively, adorable!!!! Those pictures are all precious!!

[finn's mom]

Hey, Terry, to answer your question...yes, she can! And, she does every day, hahaha! See?