Two weeks of tu-tu much fun!

Over the last 2 weeks, Claire has been a busy girl!

We carved pumpkins and Claire was very curious about the gooey inside, and was a nice big drum to beat on.

  

For her first Halloween, Claire had "Pajama Day" at Daycare.  We didn't have Halloween jammies for her, but I made a little headband of "cat ears" to match her leopard jammies. 

For trick-or-treating, she turned into a little pumpkin!  Claire loved seeing the neighborhood kids come to the house to trick-or-treat and caught up with two of her favorite friends, Tyler Caulkins and Emma Pierce!

 

 

 

Emma showed Claire how to walk behind her music machine, and just a few days later Claire was pulling herself up on to it.

She's been a little feverish and cranky lately, and we're noticing her bottom gums are very swollen in two very distinct bumps.  I think she'll have some little teeth popping thru soon (or we hope so anyway)!

This past weekend she had her first ride in a grocery cart like a big girl.  She thought she was pretty hot stuff sitting up and looking around at everything.

 We decided to take another try at giving her Gerber Puffs to eat (she was not a big fan during the first attempts), and to our surprise, she picked them up and put them in her mouth!  She chowed right thru them!  She seems to enjoy just about any food we give her these days, but her favorite is by far the fruit baby food - we can't feed her fast enough! 

 

She will wave bye bye more now and loves to give hugs and kisses (which just melts my heart).  She's also starting to have an attachment to Mommy.  She wants to constantly be in my lap or close to me (and I'm not complaining).