Two Teeth

Who would have thought getting pictures of those tooffers would have been so tough? But after a few takes I am finely able to capture those pearly whites.

Claire is cruisin'

Claire went from rolling over to crawling in just 5 weeks! How amazing is that!!

A month of firsts

Wow!! What a busy January! Lots of new adventures for Claire. Just to give you a few highlights.

We spent New Years Eve with Uncle Sean and Auntie Christy, which gave us our first over night trip. Followed by two nights at the coast hanging out with Grandma Dee and Grandpa Dan Parkison and two nights in La Grande saying goodbye to Great Grandpa McClary.

Claire had her first booboo by bonking her head on the wall when I had my back turned for two seconds. She rolled over for the first time and now has it down pat, rolling to get wherever she needs to go. Also, had her first vaccination and handled like a trooper (better than I did).

Meeting Grandma Dee and Grandpa Dan for the first time was lots of fun. They shared with us introducing solid foods. It was actually rice cereal mixed with breast milk but it counts. Now we are onto carrots! Claire just loved Grandma Dee and those two giggled for hours. We spent the weekend at the cabin but the soggy weather kept us inside. Maybe next time we can get out and play in the sand. In the meantime, we are planning a trip back to Iowa in June for another visit.

La Grande was fun, odd to say considering we were there for a funeral. But we played in the pool at the hotel and went swimming for the first time. Also, played in the snow with Grandma Corky and Grandpa Dan Reiman on the way home. We were dreading the long car ride with Claire, considering she hates her car seat, but did great!

Stay tune..... lots of new adventures coming up for the Hicks family in February!

NEW PICTURES!!

Claire's 3 month photo shoot in December 2009! Super cute!

Holiday Cards

Every year I try to do a fun Christmas card with the dogs doing something cute. This year we wanted to add Claire because seriously how adorable would that be. Time got away from me this year and everyone will be getting Happy New Years cards. They turned out great and what is a week anyway, at least I got them done!

Claire's First Christmas

This holiday season was busy and fun!

We spent Christmas Eve with Dave's aunt and uncle in McMinnville. It was nice visiting with family and Claire got to hang out with Sydnee her second cousin who is 3 months older. She is quite a chunk and super cute. I however forgot to take my camera so we have no pictures to share.

Christmas morning was a quiet event with just the three of us. Claire had a few gifts to open and Dave made us a yummy breakfast. Grandma Corky and Grandpa Dan got in early in the afternoon and were very excited to see Claire and of course us too. They were nice enough to watch Claire for a few hours while we went to dinner. We met the Hicks clan for a Fra La La La La chinese dinner and then off to the Blazer game. The original plan was to take her with us but she was being a bit fussy and Grandma hadn't seen her in almost two month so this gave them a chance to play together. However, after some razing from Laurie and Ashley, once dinner was finished we decided to go back home and take her to the game.

Barclay, Laurie's boyfriend, invited us to join them in their suite at the Blazer game and it was awesome. We had a great view, plenty of room to get up and move around, our own bathroom and bartender. I was a bit worried that Claire would be over stimulated with all the noise and lights but she was a trooper. It is the ONLY way to go! And of course, I forgot my camera.

We would have loved to spend the day with all the Grandma's and Grandpa's but alas the day is just too short and they are way too spread out. Please know we love you and were thinking of you and hope you had a very Merry Christmas.

Christmas Tree

We went searching for our Christmas tree last Sunday. I always like to get our tree the first weekend in December. Unfortunately it was bitterly cold and windy but we decided to bundle up and head out. Since our home is surronded by tree farms we didn't have to go too far, just down the road. We both prefer grand nobles so it makes it pretty easy to agree on one.

Claire was a good sport most of the time. She didn't really care for the all the layers but once we were outside she seemed to enjoy looking around at all the trees. It is hard to say for sure but I think she likes to be outside. Whenever we go on walks she happily looks around or when she is in the middle of a unexplained crying fit you can step outside with her and she immediately quiets right down.

My plan was to get the tree decorated this week and get our Christmas cards out but Dave and I got the flu. The frustrating part is that I got both the seasonly and H1N1 flu shots this year and still

got sick. Luckily Claire hasn't caught anything and we pray that she stays healthy. The doctor said other than lots of hand washing there isn't much we can do to prevent it. My fever finally broke yesterday and Dave is starting to feel better too. Hopefully we can get the tree up and inside this weekend. The cards might not make it out this year as the pictures still need to be taken, sent out to be printed, addressed and mailed. We quickly learned that mommies and daddies don't get sick days!