Claire at 7 and 8 months

Claire has changed so much in the past couple of months! Right at 7 months Claire started sitting up on her own. In the past couple of weeks Claire started crawling everywhere! I love it when she crawls up to me and then pulls up for me to hold her. A couple of weeks ago she also started going from laying down to sitting up. Since she made this discovery she had one evening where she was awake from 2:00-4:00 am because she just kept wanting to sit up. Luckily, it has not happened again. Typically, Claire's schedule is she naps around 10:00 am and 2:00 pm and it ranges from 30 minutes to an hour and a half. Then, she goes to bed around 7:00 pm and wakes up for a feeding or two in the middle of the night before starting her day around 7:30 am. Claire has gotten her first bottom tooth in the past couple of weeks and  I am sure it will not be long before she gets her other bottom tooth. Last week we had to go back to the doctor because it appeared Claire had not gotten rid of her ear infection that she had the weeks prior to that. We were right. Claire is now on her fourth round of antibiotics. Technically, the doctor considers her to have only had three ear infections with the fourth one being the third that didn't clear up. However, if she gets another one we will need to see an ENT to explore whether she should have tubes or not. Bummer. We want to do whatever is best for Claire though. Now, I make sure she has yogurt every day to give her some probiotics since she has been on antibiotics for awhile. Luckily, she loves yogurt! She especially loves banana and blueberry yogurt. Claire is now wearing 12-18 month clothes and she is not even 9 months old yet. Wow! She has been our biggest baby yet. She is so squeezable! She has been making more and more sounds to try and talk. She is still so full of joy and happy most of the time unless she has an ear infection. The poor thing. We all love her so much. The girls have had so much fun with her crawling!

Claire playing with wrapping paper in Shreveport with Aunt Lauren and Daddy.

7 month picture.

Claire loves Kate! Kate was being a good big sister and playing with Claire.

The picture we used for the Baby Dedication at church this past month.

Claire's first time in our little play car. She loved it! I love how she put her hands on the steering wheel. She kept them there almost the whole time on our walk.

Claire and me. Kate or Carly took this picture. Not bad, huh?

Eating yogurt for the first time and loving it!

8 month picture

Leaving the Abilene Zoo.

Getting to swing on a swing for the first time in Abilene.

Another time at a playground. She was holding on pretty tight.

Claire loves getting to sit up in the baths now and play with the bath toys.

Getting dry after bath time.

Crawling! Don't you just love this face?