Yes, I am asking this question at the end of December. But it makes sense that December flies by- it always does. But for us, this year November was especially crazy and amazing! Let see if I can remember all that happened...
Leading up to Claire's birthday, which was on a Saturday, Jason got the flu on Tuesday (with fever and chills), but was better by Wednesday. On Thursday Lauren got the stomach flu and couldn't keep anything down. Jason made Claire's cake on Thursday, in case we had to redo it. It was this yummy pumpkin cake that smelled great, for everyone except Lauren. Then on Friday, Lauren felt great and even babysat some nephews- cute kids!
That night Lauren had a concert (with the Nebo Philharmonic). You can see one song from their concert here.
Then Saturday, Jason was not feeling too great so Lauren decorated the cake. This was her first time using cake decorating tips, and it took a LONG time but is glad that she attempted this feat. (Jason's mom helped finish up the cake by doing the outlining in black- thanks so much!) Oh yeah, and we babysat my friend's boy, while she thought she was going into labor, during Claire's birthday party. Jason end up having a 24 hour stomach flu thing. But it was all worth it- for this little sweetheart!
"He he he, I love all this attention!"
Claire loves all her presents, so thanks so much!
From there out, things slowed down. Although there were some difficult transitions for mom and Claire. Claire kept refusing her second nap, an entire week, (no matter what I tried) before I got the hint that she no longer needed two naps. So it was a difficult transition from a good morning nap to one a good afternoon nap. Surprisingly, the transition from nursing exclusively to cow's milk in a sippy cup was not as hard (as the nap transition). But it still took a while, amidst the sickness.
This was taken when she wasn't the biggest fan of milk.
What else... Claire is walking!!! (She was definitely walking alot more by Halloween, and a few weeks later completely stopped crawling.) And Claire got way too many shots, for flu booster shot, 5 one year old shots, and H1N1 shot.
Jason had his thesis prospectus approved! YAY, go babe! And as Claire and I were going to pick something up to celebrate, we got hit by another car. (No injuries or anything major to the car, but some insurance money to replace our dying camera, yay :))
Someone was crawling in the bucket of flour that mom thought was empty and...
"What's so funny mom, I don't see anything funny"
Leading up to Claire's birthday, which was on a Saturday, Jason got the flu on Tuesday (with fever and chills), but was better by Wednesday. On Thursday Lauren got the stomach flu and couldn't keep anything down. Jason made Claire's cake on Thursday, in case we had to redo it. It was this yummy pumpkin cake that smelled great, for everyone except Lauren. Then on Friday, Lauren felt great and even babysat some nephews- cute kids!
Then Saturday, Jason was not feeling too great so Lauren decorated the cake. This was her first time using cake decorating tips, and it took a LONG time but is glad that she attempted this feat. (Jason's mom helped finish up the cake by doing the outlining in black- thanks so much!) Oh yeah, and we babysat my friend's boy, while she thought she was going into labor, during Claire's birthday party. Jason end up having a 24 hour stomach flu thing. But it was all worth it- for this little sweetheart!
From there out, things slowed down. Although there were some difficult transitions for mom and Claire. Claire kept refusing her second nap, an entire week, (no matter what I tried) before I got the hint that she no longer needed two naps. So it was a difficult transition from a good morning nap to one a good afternoon nap. Surprisingly, the transition from nursing exclusively to cow's milk in a sippy cup was not as hard (as the nap transition). But it still took a while, amidst the sickness.
This was taken when she wasn't the biggest fan of milk.
What else... Claire is walking!!! (She was definitely walking alot more by Halloween, and a few weeks later completely stopped crawling.) And Claire got way too many shots, for flu booster shot, 5 one year old shots, and H1N1 shot.
Jason had his thesis prospectus approved! YAY, go babe! And as Claire and I were going to pick something up to celebrate, we got hit by another car. (No injuries or anything major to the car, but some insurance money to replace our dying camera, yay :))
Someone was crawling in the bucket of flour that mom thought was empty and...
