10 Months

Claire is 10 months old today! She is such a happy little girl, and she is growing and learning many new things.


Her favorite toy these days is the one she's holding in these pictures. When she pushes the button, music plays! (It has pretty good sound quality, and I like the selection of classical music that it plays. - I approve!) :-) She figured out how to push the button herself within the past few weeks, and she LOVES to push the button now! She can be sitting with lots of toys in front of her, and her attention will go from one toy to the next, but when the music stops, she usually goes back to this one and pushes the button again.

I think her second favorite toy is a little ball that came as part of a toy she got for Christmas. She can keep herself occupied by chasing the ball around the room.


While we were in Dallas, she waved to people a lot. - She waved to my dad just about every time she saw him, I think! But now that we're back home, she doesn't really wave anymore. Instead, she points. When I get her up from a nap, she immediately points - either at her stuffed animal frog that sits on the bookshelf, or at the picture frame in her room that has pictures of her with her dad and her with both of her grandmoms, or at the picture of a flower that's on the wall, or at the doorknob, or out the door. She just loves to point.

Claire can say ma ma (mom), da da (dad), ba (bath - she says this multiple times a night when it's bath time!), and ba ba (bye bye). She is very good about giving kisses. Sometimes she'll lean in to kiss someone (usually Jordan) without him asking for a kiss. Other times she'll kiss you over and over and over again. It's so sweet. She also loves to look at the pictures of relatives that we have in the house. She kisses the people in the pictures, too. And for the past few nights she has spent the majority of her bath time kissing her reflection in the silver part of something in the tub. (I have no idea what it's called. It's a circle screwed into the tub beneath the faucet and above the drain).

She has one tooth. (Many months ago we thought she had a tooth. It was a false alarm). But she does finally have one tooth. She got it almost two weeks ago. She likes to walk with the help of her walker, kitchen chairs, a little stool, or anyone who will hold her hands while she walks. She has become ticklish, so it's fun to tickle her and hear her sweet laugh.

Claire is a sweet, happy girl, and we love her so much! We feel so blessed to have her as a daughter, and we are so excited we get to be her parents.