All Put Back Together

or at least for the picture. There are few lingering boxes in Claire's room that need some attending to, but other than that the Great Makeover is complete!
PS. I hemmed those curtains myself.

Provoking

Can one sing along with elevator music?

My Fuare into Elfdome

Today Claire's walker came, it came in MANY more pieces than I expected it to. And the instructions well; less than helpful. (see below)
And in the end a box is much more fun.

Parental Training

Sleep Depervation Training
Course Description: Tape three fingers of each hand together and go about your daily routine. This will simulate the coordination and frustration you will feel on a daily basis. And will simulate the way your home will look about 4 months into child rearing.
Mind Reading
Course Description: Spend multiple hours alone each day with a person with many needs who can not talk to you. This will simulate the relationship you will have with you child. (Husbands are good people to try this with)
Toy Construction
Course Description: Construct elaborate, colorful contraptions which come in small pieces. For the final you will be required to construct said contraption using only rudimentary instructions in French and crude pictorial directions. The use of one hand will be restricted to simulate the child who will need constant attention as they try to get to the plastic bagS which hold the many small pieces.
Prerequisite: Toy Packaging Removal: how to get at the toy enclosed in homeland securities finest detainment packages.
Minimum of Engineering BS required
Diaper Changing
Course Description: Students will train using lifelike dolls who pee at will and most often when your back is turned or they are on someone else's carpet. Solid excrement is introduced in future higher level courses.
Feeding
Course Description: To prepare the parents for the trials of feeding, a green bean and pea mixture will be loaded into a baseball pitching machine and fired at random while parents try to pay bills, eat their own meal or maintain any semblance of normalcy.
The clothes worn for this trial will be used by the Laundry With an Infant class.

It Is Finished

YEAH! our room is done, after countless hours of cleaning off wallpaper and wallpaper paste (whoever invented wallpaper should be beaten with a wet noodle) Here are some highlights from our seemingly endless journey:

Cute Baby or Mean Mommy

You decide:

Through My Window

The Pope

Not only did GB and Pappy come to visit, the Pope was in NYC (do you have to capitalize his name? doesn't it seem like you should?). And I saw him. OK I saw his motorcade from about 2 miles away, but how many of you have been that close to the pope? The main reason that I am posting this is to make you all aware that the pope has a special car, called the popemobile. Who knew?! Ok everyone I have talked to knew, although Micah was quick to clear up that he has never actually ridden in the popemobile. But all that aside, doesn't it look like they put the pope in a cage in the back of a pickup truck? I wonder if the pope would ever say "Load up the pick-up, I'm going into town!"


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GB and Pappy Come to Town

GB and Pappy came to visit us this past weekend. They loaded up the pick up and came into town! They brought Uncle Alex, Mommy's furniture and Claire's dresser. The dresser is beautiful and matches her room so wonderfully.
We just hung out and they got some good quality time with Claire, she is so blessed to have such wonderful grandparents.
We know they love us because they left some things behind, an old Havener trick to ensure that you see the other person again.

From All Fours to Sitting

This is the first time that Claire has done this!
I'm really considering just getting Claire a blog to mark all of these milestones.
But then I won't be able to compete.
Yeah for sitting up on her own!

I think she was really just looking for a way to get through the couch. (she even tried a password)

How Do You Do This?

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Sorry I cried on you today. I'm better now, have a great day!

I'm a Freaking awesome Wife

Sometimes I questions weather I am actually a good wife. I mean I'm not as good as my mom, and better than others but really there should be a scale.
Today is not a day when I question. Today I am having Jimmy's mom and her boyfriend over for dinner. They invited themselves sort of, then called to say 'what are we doing?' an hour before our appointed dinner; but I didn't say anything. (ok, but I didn't say a lot) I also made Lasagna, which is awesome.



I put a 27 on it just in case the cake didn't turn out, then we could put candles in the lasagna and sing.

But the cake turned out freaking awesomely! Take a look.


I'm a GREAT WIFE! (and humble to boot)

Saucy

I'm making sauce. It may have something to do with the fact that my husband is accustomed to such treatment (no sauce in a jar for him), It may be because my husband is Italian. It may also have something to do with the fact that my husband's mother is coming to my house. Whatever the cause, my house smells great and I'm making sauce for my husband's birthday. (as a side: I drove to the store this morning to get the things to make the sauce. It was liberating.)
I'm making Lasagna. With the aromatic sauce cooking in my kitchen. I hope it's good since I've never done it before and I have my husband's mother coming for dinner. (I have stew in the freezer)
Last time I made sauce I told my dad about it and showed him over Skype and he told me not to serve it to anyone, without even tasting it. The nerve.

I served it anyway.

He was right.

Hopefully this sauce will be better, or at least serve-able.

Per Request

In this film, which was requested, Claire assaults a duck and burps and eats dirt. Enjoy

Claire in the Wild

Claire, She Crawls

Claire is on the move... she makes motorboat noises to help her move faster.

To Ponder

1. We are taking Claire to have her picture taken and there will be bunnies there. How do they keep the bunnies from peeing on the children as they take the picture?
2. The ice cream truck is out today (it's about 40 degrees). Who decides when the ice cream truck comes out?
3. What is truth?
Truth: a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like; actuality or actual existence; the true or actual state of a matter.

A Garden

Then the Lord God planted a garden...
That one phrase stuck out at me today during my devotions. That 'The Lord God' would humble himself so much to get dirty to create a spectacular place for man to live and thrive, it puts me in awe. But one the other hand maybe God just really wanted to feel what the dirt felt like, just imagine 'The Lord God' squishing mud between his toes :) I guess that one phrase encapsulated who my God is, He is 'The Lord God', creator of the universe, the ultimate Lover of me, and a God who enjoys his creations to their fullest. Enjoy His creations today.

More Laughing

Claire went to visit GB for Easter and she loved Dixi. For some reason when Dixi barked she thought is was hilarious.



Aunt Ami thinks it's funny too.