Happy Birthday, Klaire

Better late, then never, right? It's sad, but I'm finally getting around to posting Klaire's b-day pictures along with her 12 month picture by the doll! Her birthday was the 31st. Remember she was a booger and couldn't wait till August like her momma wanted. Anyways, Grandma Alma and T-rex were here for her birthday. Here's us celebrating at IHOP. Then in the evening we had her cake and presents!



Here's the big girl at 12 months! (really, about 12 1/2 months, but who's counting?)

11 months

Look who's 11 months old now. In the past month she...

started cruising around furniture,

finally takes a sippy cup,

finally sleeps all night,

eats a lot more table food,

and tries to keep up with her brothers and sister

Click HERE if you want to see the past months.

10 MONTHS OLD

Man, time sure is flying by! I can't believe she's 10 months already.
She's eating a lot of solids,
pulls up,
can move along furniture a little,
fake cries,
blows great raspberries on command,
claps on command,
shakes her head yes on command,
has 6 (almost 8) teeth,
makes us all laugh,
still does not SLEEP through the night,
and still refuses a BOTTLE or CUP!!!!

9 MONTHS old

crawling...or should I say scooting,
(She has the funny crawl that Jakeb, Kaleb, and Makenna had. It must be the harwood floors. She can also slide across the floor like Makenna did too. )

another tooth popped through,

goes from lying to sitting,

still eats baby food, but some table foods too,

Still refuses a bottle or sippy cup,

is one of the cutest babies in the whole wide world.

8 months

Rolls all over
starting sleeping through the night
has two teeth
eats 3 jars a day
picks up Cheerios and other small food
can pull herself along on the hardwood floors
still refuses a bottle and a sippy cup
But still as cute as can be!!!!

Seven months old

Klaire is seven months. Can you believe it? In the past month she has....

mastered sitting up

first tooth popped through

refuses to take a bottle or cup

went on her second vacation

Holds her own spoon

rolls around on the floor

smiles at everything

eats Mum-Mums

and is still....the happiest baby ever!

Not me Monday

This was not the conversation that I heard the other day between Blake and his father while building a ferris wheel with K'nex.

Dad, I think we're doing this wrong. We need to put this here.

No, Blake, that can't be right. That wouldn't make sense.

But Dad, that's what the instructions say.

No Blake, it's not the right way.

But Dad...I'll bet you a hundred dollars that that we need to build another one.

Blake, Fine, Whatever. If I hear another word about it, you're gonna get in trouble. It's not the right way.

Okay, Dad.

I also did not hear this conversation about 10 minutes later.

Blake, how in the world could you have known that?

What?? I'm right? I'm right? I get a HUNDRED bucks!! Yeah!!!!!!


I also did not spend about 2 hours building this Lego Eiffel Tower because Jakeb wanted to build it. Jakeb did not quit after about 10 minutes because he didn't realize how long it would take. I did not LOVE every minute of building it because Legos were not my favorite toys growing up.


I have not been trying to potty train Makenna. I also haven't been getting frustrated doing it. Makenna does not get upset when I try to put a diaper back on her after she's been wearing a pull-up for awhile. On one certain night, she did not start to throw a fit when I was putting a diaper on her for bedtime. She did not keep saying that she wanted a pull-up over and over. She also did not get in trouble for throwing a fit. She did not continue to cry for quite sometime only to fall asleep in her bed. Later that night she did not come into my room in the middle of the night saying...poo-poo. I did not try to shoo her back to bed. I immediately jumped up to help her. She did not keep saying..Poo-poo and pulling at her little nightgown. I did not finally realize that she did not have a diaper on any longer only to find myself jumping up out of bed and running to her room expecting to find "poo-poo" somewhere. Upon arriving in her room, I did not check her entire room looking for "poo-poo." Makenna finally made her way back to her room, but she did NOT point to the floor where she had taken off her DIAPER and said once again poo-poo! That little girl did NOT trick me just so she could get her way to put on her pull-up in the middle of the night!





We are also very good parents. We are not unsafe in any way. My husband did NOT pull out the two mattresses and stack them on top of each other. The plan was NOT to have a contest to see who could have the best dive off the dining room table! We would never let our kids stand on our table, and absolutely NEVER run across the table.


I also did not wait an entire week to take Klaire's "doll" pictures. I always do it on the exact day my daughters turn the next month.

I do not have this lingering thing for chewing ice. I have not been chewing ice since about 3 months before Klaire was born. And because of this new thing, I did not dislocate two fillings causing me to have to go to the dreaded dentist where he gave me a shot of Novocaine, drilled and sanded my poor little teeth. He also did not actually say the words, "I need one a little more coarse," while referring to a sanding tool. That would of course not freak me out at all because everyone LOVES to hear that someone is sanding down their teeth, their front teeth at that.

I also did not proceed to break my glasses while I was at the dentist. What's really funny is that I have been to the eye doctor every year of course. I would never go almost 5 years without going to the eye doctor. I love going to the eye doctor almost as much as I love going to the dentist. My poor little glasses were not held together with superglue for the past 5 months, and like I said, they did not finally come apart at the dentist. I did not call my babysitter and ask her to stay a little longer with the girls. I also did not take FOUR boys with me to the eye doctor to get a exam and 2 new pairs of glasses. (They truly had a great deal going on.)

I also did not go get my hair cut this week resulting in a haircut that a tad bit on the short side for me. Oh well..... (oh, yeah, and in the above pictures...my hair is not sticking straight up!)

Oh, and this is not two 1/2 weeks, possibly even three weeks worth of Not me's put together in one post because I'm always on top of my blogging!

5 months

She's rolling, almost sitting up, lauging, and eating lots and lots of veggies. She doesn't like any fruits...not even one bit!

4 months old

Check out the little princess. What a big girl, huh? She's rolling over and more active than ever. She's never still. She's such a happy baby.

3 months

cute, huh? She's getting bigger and bigger. About a week and a half ago, she was almost 13 pounds. She smiles all the time, and she's getting pretty close to rolling over. She's got some strong muscles and shows them off by standing (obviously with help), and holding her head up high. (She's gotta have strong muscles to take her stand against those four older brothers!)

Guess who's 2 months old????

One month old

Klaire's a month old, and like Makenna, I'm taking her picture next to the doll every month to record her growth. Here it is from a couple of weeks ago.