Rhode Island Weekend

This weekend we took Claire to Rhode Island for Lynn's cousin Ken's wedding. Claire was pretty good for the flight. She got to meet her second cousin, Alex for the first time, along with great uncle Joe and aunt Kathy, and cousins Ken and Sherri (newlyweds), Julie and Joe (Alex's parents). Of course, grammy and grampy were there along with Uncle Larry and Auntie Char. While Claire was sleeping for the rehearsal dinner and wedding reception, she did get to go to the wedding, albeit viewed from the crying room - we didn't want her to overshadow the bride!.

Sunday morning we found out the our flight back home was canceled. Lynn talked Delta into putting us on another flight in first class. when we got to the airport to check in, Delta gave us $200 for our troubles as well. We got home by 6:30pm and Claire went to sleep without a peep. Around 7:30pm, Lynn kicked her suitcase (accidentally) and broke her toe. We spent the next 2 hours at the hospital. Our neighbor Nick (of Nick and Kristi fame), who had been baby sitting Kayla all weekend at his house, got to babysit Claire tonight. Anyway, here are some photos from Claire's adventure in Rhode Island.

Doctors and Dancing

Today we took Claire in for her 15 month tune up. Everything looked fine under the hood. She is almost 22 lbs and 30.1 inches in height, which places her in the 25th - 50th percentile for height and weight. She also got 3 needles and cried like a baby (but only for a little bit - brave girl!). Trust me, it was more painful for me to watch.

We are busy reading books to Claire everyday. Usually the same 8 or 9 books. So if you feel like sending us a new book to read. please do so - just not Goodnight Moon. Anyway, below are a couple of videos, showing our first dance with Claire, which will no doubt be a hit at her wedding in 30 some odd years from now.

Dances with Dad

Dances with Mom

New Parenting Technique

The other day after dinner, we took Claire upstairs to the media room to let her run around and burn off some energy before bed. Lynn and I end up falling asleep on the couch, only to be awoken on occasion by Claire sticking her face in ours and saying loudly, "Hi!". I am not sure how long we were sleeping, but fortunately the gate to the media room was locked, so she couldn't get too far. We had a good chuckle over that incident.

Today was hot again, so off to the pool we went to work on undoing Claire's farmer's tan. She is getting so brave, walking in waist-deep water. She'll be swimming by the end of summer. Here are more photos from today.