Night Night!

I think this is just the cutest story:
We recently started putting Claire back to bed again while she's still awake. For the past 2 months we were rocking her to sleep because she felt so bad with her ear infections and fever. Well, now that she's feeling better, we've gone back to our old routine. It didn't take long for Claire to remember that when it's time for "night, night", we read books and then she gets in her crib. So, last night we were playing in the living room after bath time, as usual, and all of a sudden around 8:30, she just started saying "night, night.......night, night." She then walked to her bedroom and grunted for help to get up in the glider where we read. I thought it was too precious. It's so much fun putting her to bed. She enjoys her books so much, and definitely has an opinion about which one she wants to read. She is growing up!

Bubbles Bubbles

One of Claire's favorite times of the day is still bath time. She loves playing with her bath toys and the bubbles! Splish-Splash!

We are so thankful Claire has been feeling better since her ear tube surgery last week. Thanks to everyone for checking on us! We hope to keep Claire away from the doctor's office for a while!

Birthday Party

Our friend's, Angel & Chris, little boy Brooks celebrated his 1st birthday this past Saturday. Claire had a great time playing with his toys and helping Brooks celebrate. She didn't mind the chicken nuggets or hershey kisses either that she chowed down on! Happy Birthday Brooks!

Sweet baby Tanner

Claire's friend, Hayes, recently got a new little brother. Tanner Michael Paganelli was born on 1/15/09. We went to visit them in the hospital after Tanner was born and Claire did great!

Claire's surgery

Hi everyone! We just wanted to let you know that Claire had tubes put in her ears yesterday. We went to see her Pediatrician the week before and she still had double ear infections. This made 6 since September. We immediately saw an ENT the next day and scheduled her surgery for the following Thursday, which was yesterday! Claire was definitely a big girl through the whole thing and did great. I was a little concerned since she couldn't have anything to eat or drink (even water) after midnight the day before and her surgery wasn't until 9:45am, but she did wonderful. Once they took her back for the actual surgery and I had to leave her in pre-op, she was finished 10 minutes later and back with us pretty quickly. She slept most of the day afterwards and was her happy self this morning and ready for school! We hope this will keep those nasty ear infections away for good or at least a long time! Have a great weekend!