8 months

These pics were too cute, to not share... so we are going back to last month

A pig hot air balloon, how patriotic

Feeding the ducks

Grotto Falls

Playing with dolly

Mom's attempt at pigtails

1st tooth, barely popping up

First few zucchini

I love this look :)

Not sure how well she slept...

A week after the first tooth, up came the second

Loves to explore!

9 Month videos

Here are a few videos of little Claire!
Here is Claire crawling. I love how she immediately lets go of her toy once I open the closet door. The closet is very desirable, because its usually un-explorable with the door shut. :)

This next video is of Claire walking with her walker, while pausing to dance a few times :)

Mom got some bug, with a temperature and chills (she hasn't gotten sick for 18 months, before she was pregnant with Claire!!!- this has to be a record for her) While Claire got her first top tooth, and an ear infection at the same time....ouch. Luckily Jason stayed healthy to help take care of us both!

J's work party

We drove up American Fork Canyon to Mutual Dell for Jason's work party. On the way, Claire found something to get in to (even as she is buckled in her car seat). As you can tell she was quite pleased with herself, that she got to try the wheat bread that mommy and daddy eat right in front of her, but never let her try... gotta love this silly girl!

Claire's usual sticking straight up, Pebbles hairdo, is curly in the humid atmosphere

During the BBQing, it started to pour down rain, and all the guys had to help put up a shelter so they could finish cooking the hamburgers... as you can see some guys are still soaked. And we ended the night with an always entertaining, Chubby Bunny Contest. Jason got 3rd place with 9 marshmallows in his mouth!

Swimming with J's fam

Cutie Matthew

Claire trying to grab the camera

Our little fishy

Slowly But Surely

Good thing dad is so patient!

Here is a time-lapse video that takes a picture every 2 seconds... and yes she got her purple sippy...but not before the battery life on the camera ended. :)

And a few random pics... She loves looking inside her fish tank- maybe because of the shiny paper inside

Grandpa Bassett's Birthday Dinner

After the parade, Claire got to meet some of my extended family...

She had fun playing with great-grandma's scarf,

being adored by my cousins,

and giggling with my Aunt Janet (who has almost as much energy as Claire)

Art City Days Parade

We got this bike carrier from some friends in our ward. It needed a few repairs...
Before picture:

It was easy enough to fix. I repaired the large hole and Jason removed all the rust. And ta da, it works great! So we biked to the parade...
'Wee'

Talking along the way...

She smiled all big, even though it was naptime.