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Signing Vocab

Claires gotten pretty good at signing lately.....

Here are some of the words she signs

Eat

Cracker

Cereal

Banana

Finished

Potty

More

Bird

Fish

Dog

Signing Time

Rain

Go

Up

Shoes

Cheese

Bear

Ball

Hat

Please

Wash Hands

Bath

Nice

Hot

Cold

Yes 

No

Flower

Now I dont think she understands them all but she most defintely understands a lot.  It's so fun to see her learn!

Rough

It's been rough at our house the past couple of days.  Claire has been sick with a bad cough and congestion.  Last night was the worst.  I would put her in her crib and then a few minutes later she would wake up congested so I would rock her in the chair.  She would fall asleep but I couldn't.  That went on till 5:30.  Ah!!  I was so tired.  Finally, at 7:30 I went and woke up Brian and said YOUR TURN! lol.  I went to bed and got up around 10.  We didn't go to church today since she is still sick.  I hate seeing sick kids at church.  I don't want my kid to get sick!  

Anyway, yesterday Brian ran all the errands.  When he got home he watched Claire while I made her some cloth baby shoes.  They turned out pretty good considering it is only the second time I have used a sewing machine, the first time I have ever sewed anything using a pattern!  I put on Music and Lyrics and had fun (In between yelling at my machine).  

I still don't have my camera, although my mom found it today :)  That's the best I can do with my webcam. 

I exercised every day last week.  I'm on Week 2 of my C25K.  Yay for me! 

Yeah, so...boring week :)

1 day down

I did my first day of C25K today.  I ran on the treadmill at the office since it was cold outside.  It was nice.  I felt good afterwards.  Brian and I are also doing a 6 week program to be able to do 100 pushups.  :)  I feel like I need the upper body strength.  Fun stuff.  I'm pretty excited.  

I took Claire to the doctor today.  I wanted to see if she had an ear infection.  No ear infection!  Yay!  Must be teething pain, although if it is, this tooth is taking a lot of time to come in.  She now weighs 18 lbs 1 oz.  I at first was hoping to be closer to 20 lbs which I think is the requirement to go forward facing in the car.  I was doing some research and decided that I am going to keep her rear facing as long as possible.  It is so much safer!

We went to a new pizza/salad bar place tonight for Brian's belated birthday dinner.  It was okay.  Not really impressive though.  Someone would probably make a killing if they opened a Sizzlers here.  

Awesome

My mom posted this on her blog and I love it!  Enjoy

We're Back!

Have you ever seen that movie?  Dinasours who get fed the brain enhancing cereal and start talking and get time travel to make little kids dreams come true?  Good when I was little...not so much now.

Anyway, we are home!  Got home on Wednesday.  Claire did amazing as usual on the plane.  She was a little more high maintenance during the layover now that she is walking all over.  I had to chase her around and she did not like it when I made her stop or go somewhere else.  I was exhausted!  Luckily our friends the Hills invited us over to dinner that night so I didn't have to cook.  It was awesome :)  I think we have adjusted back....a little boring here but I guess we will get used to it.  

I'm starting a Couch to 5k program tomorrow.  So 3 miles isn't that far...but I haven't run that since high school (I hate running).  When I was home my dad was running all the time. He ran 20.5 miles and was so hyper :)  He is doing a marathon on Saturday in Memphis.  He got bit by the running bug and I want to be too! I'm going to do a weight training on the days I don't run.  I'm putting that on my blog for allllll to see and so I will be held (or feel like i'm held) accountable.  Whew.  I'm tired already!  I lost all my baby weight, now I need to lose winter weight.  

My blogs are going to be kinda boring because I have no idea where my camera went to.  I either left it at my parent house or lost it on the plane.  I dunno.  It's kind of annoying not having it.  Claire was SO super cute today in her new dress.  oh my gosh.  She looked so big!  It's kind of sad.  My friend has a little baby and I saw him for the first time yesterday and I couldn't believe that Claire had ever been that small.  I love babies!  Brian just thinks she is so much better now that she isn't a "blob" (to use his words). 

One thing that I did bring home from Arkansas is one of my all time favorite books.  

I have no idea how to make that smaller.

Love this book.  LOVE it.  My aunt Samantha got it for me when I was 8.  I was going through a Robin Hood stage.  That stage lasted forever lol.  I think I have read every Robin Hood book there is.  It's totally falling apart everywhere.  I need to buy a new copy. 

Anyway, Claire is trying to climb up me...time to go!