Our baby girl is 2!

Blogger is not my friend these days....here is a post from about 2 weeks ago. I am trying to post another one, but not having much luck.

Claire had a very big birthday weekend! We've been on the go a lot this past week, and the weekend was no exception.

Saturday morning Claire woke up on her own, but she didn't know mommy was going to catch her sleepiness on camera.

After a little cuddling and cartoons, daddy made Claire a special birthday breakfast. Claire was less than enthused when we set her in her chair.

But she got excited when she found out she got cinnamon rolls from a can! Or maybe she was laughing at daddy's singing!

Doesn't she look so proud of her self and soooo grown up!

She did a really good job blowing out the candles until her nose got a little too close to the flame.

She wasn't a big fan of the cinnamon rolls and requested a banana instead.

Saturday afternoon we headed to Onarga to celebrate the wedding shower of Trever's cousin, Kelly.

I tried to get a picture of Claire and Maddi together but didn't have much luck. This is a good picture of Claire! :)

The bride-to-be!

When we got home Claire wanted to help daddy with chores. Since her dress was already a mess from her snack at the shower, and it was from a garage sale, I let her wear it outside.

On Sunday we tried to take a few more pictures between church, breakfast with Maddi & Kempton, and a shower for Miss Cierra.

But after all of that, Claire was soooooo sleepy that she put herself in time out.

And finally, after a full weekend of parties for everyone else, we got around to unwrapping Claire's presents from mommy & daddy!

She got a diaper bag with bottles, powder, burp rag & diaper for her babies, a charm for her bracelet, a book and a big bubble wand!

And at her 2 year check up last week she weight 29 pounds and was 36 inches tall.

Claire's antics!

Eggs EVERYWHERE

Claire is completely Eastered out. After 3 days of cousins, 4 easter egg hunts and more candy than you can shake a stick at, this girl woke up with a nasty cough this morning. I think she's had enough! But she sure was cute doing it all!

Claire spent Wednesday & Thursday with Grandma and Papa Wayne. Thursday night we picked up a very special visitor. Claire talked about Caisey the whole trip, but as soon as we picked her up, her tune changed. She gave Caisey the stink eye for a while. But, come Friday morning, she was excited to "wake saysey up".

Friday afternoon Claire went with the kids from Mary's to the Piper City nursing home for an Easter egg hunt. They hunted inside because of the weather, but she brougth home candy nonetheless.

Saturday we joined Maddison & Gammy for the Onarga Woman's Club Easter Egg hunt. It was a quick hunt but the girls came out with lots of gum and chocolate! They had fun running around and Gammy & Daddy let their true competitive colors show. The apple must not fall too far from the tree because Claire was picking up two eggs at ta time.

Daddy helped her open them and find all the candy!

Claire spent the rest of Saturday at Gammy and Papa's house with her cousins. We went back over around supper time so we could hang out with this super cute little guy!

He doesn't get much attention with all the girls around, but Kempton was really posing for Aunt Krista during the egg hunt.

The big kids and the little girls each had an egg hunt and everyone came home with some pretty good loot!

And I took lots of pictures.

Sunday we got up early and headed to church. Trever and his Sunday school kids put on a nice Sunrise Service. We had breakfast and then headed to Onarga for another church service. Then we tried really hard to get a picture of 4 kids all looking at the same camera at the same time. A smile on 4 faces would have been nice but that was asking a lot.

Claire looks a little sad in this picture, but I think it's a super cute picture with her cousin Caisey!

This is what happens when you put a 14 year old, 2 year old, almost 2 year old and a 3+ month old together in one picture.

Then you try something different.

When you take out the toddlers the quality of the pictures improves! Isn't my niece pretty!?! We finally made it home so Claire could see what the Easter bunny left at her house! She got so many goodies that the Easter bunny could have forgotten to stop at home and she wouldn't have missed him. After chores, mommy cracked out some new jammies that have been waiting for Claire to grow in to them. I think I almost waited to long, but aren't the adorable!

Where have we been?

It's been a while since I've posted and I haven't taken very many pictures lately. Here are a few to get you up to date. Claire LOVES her kitty and LOVES her Elmo Jammies. What she doesn't love is when Congo fights back. The poor girl deserves every bite and scratch she gets, and she sure has a lot of them. Claire got her first bandaid last week (that wasn't for a shot). I'm not really sure what happened but she had a cut by her toe nail that wouldn't stop bleeding (probably from Congo). She didn't think much of the bandaid either. She really likes to CHEESE for the camera and then have mommy show it to her. Frida night we celebrated my 30th birthday at Jupiters. Joey took a few pictures and if anyone else has some, I'd love a copy! This was at the end of the night with my wonderful husband! Claire spent all night with Miss Mary so mommy and daddy didn't have to be responsible! Today we celebrated Easter with the Builtas and Reads. Papa Wayne even hid some eggs for Claire. Mommy tried to take some good pictures in one of her 3 pretty Easter dresses. These are the best I got!