Getting bigger every day

Claire in her nighttime attire--swaddled, bagged, and hatted. she's so darn cute and armless.

Claire's first mail! She's officially a person. She tried to eat the envelope.

Guess who's 4 weeks old?

 That's right, me!

She's smiling more and more every day, and sometimes she almost seems on the verge of laughing. I can't wait to see what she'll laugh at first. Probably Eric's face when he changes her poopy diaper.

First day at church

Today was Claire's first day of church! I admit, half the reason I wanted to take her to church was so that I could put her in her dress and put her tights on her. They were way too big and made her legs look like saggy white noodles, but she was still so darn cute!

Claire thought church was pretty awesome and started to disco--

but then thought better of it and decided just to pass back out instead.

Hard at work

Claire leads a very busy life, whether she's busy spying on her surroundings from inside her bag,

 Taking naps,

helping her dad at work,

crying,

getting cleaned up after a wild night, 

 thinking deep thoughts,

or practicing her latest model pose.

The milkaholic strikes again

Claire is a drunk. After she eats, she tends to get this relaxed and sneaky little smile on her face-

 --either that, or she gives me this look like, "drinking that much milk is pretty hard work, so you better just leave me alone so I can sleep it off. My life is hard."

In other Claire news, this is what Claire's side of the room looks like (well, we moved the bassinet so that it's alongside the bed so I can retrieve the little monkey without getting up. i am lazy.):

Claire loves sleeping, but she prefers to do so while being held for maximum comfort and warmth. Getting her to go to sleep is never an issue (though sometimes getting her to wake up is), but getting her to STAY asleep when she's in her bed can be a pain, especially since you're not supposed to put loose blankets and stuff in with her. So, we came up with a solution. We put her in her pjs, swaddle her, and then bag and hat her. We tried just bagging her, but that left her arms free to attack her and everything around her, which didn't work out so well:

Happy Halloween!

For Claire's 1st Halloween Eric and I dressed up as Batman. We are so cool. And Claire was the trick in the treats. She didn't really like her costume, but oh well. She looked cute. :)

Not so tiny Claire

We went to our midwife's today and if the scales were accurate, Claire not only got back to her birth weight (8 lbs 3 oz), but surpassed it by quite a bit. She's 8 lbs 8 oz. So not so tiny at the moment--I think all the weight is in her cheeks. **The scales were accurate. She is a little chunk. :)

Claire also got to put her little footprints on the wall at the birth house. Her feet are much cuter than all of the other baby feet.