Claire's First Tooth!!!!

Claire now has her first tooth!! (and the second one looks like it might be budding out too!) Todd and I worked very hard to get a picture of the now infamous tooth--so please enjoy the 2 pics out of 50 that actually show the tooth. She has had no problems with typical teething behaviors so it really took me by surprise yesterday morning. I've heard all kinds of stories of babies waking up in the middle of the night, running a fever, being fussy--but she didn't do any of that. We also took some pictures of her at church in the little tables they have with seats in them. They are so cute, and I keep meaning to get Sunday morning pictures with all the babies dressed up together.

Claire is growing up so fast!!

Claire had another good Monday with Grandma today and took quite a few good pictures while playing today. I thought I'd share a few. Claire is really getting around so good. She can climb up the entire flight of stairs now with no help, she has managed to turn on the DVD player and actually get it to open and take the DVD out, and she takes all the books off the bookshelf whenever she gets a chance. She had her 9 month check up last week (really at 10 months after having to wait for her to be fever free for a couple weeks before getting shots) and she was in the 25th percentile for weight and the 50th percentile for height. She was up to 17 pounds 2 ounces.