June 30, 2011

Clara had to get her immunization shots today.  It was SO sad.  She woke up in the happiest mood this morning and smiled for me all morning long.  She grinned big grins at the doctor's office when the nurse was weighing and measuring her (9 lbs. 11 oz. and 21 1/2 inches long now at 6 weeks old) and she cooed and gurgled the whole time.  Then the other nurse came in with the needles and pricked her.  Poor Clara's face just crumpled into hurt and confusion and sadness.  I felt terrible.  She cried and cried and even when I held her she was just so sad.  She wasn't herself for the rest of the day.  I kept monitoring her with the thermometer for a rise in her temperature but she was just fine.  I went ahead and gave her baby Tylenol anyway because the doctor said I could if she seemed to be in pain and if I got shots in both hips, I would be in pain.

June 29, 2011

Nap time.  I love having a baby girl.  This outfit was a present from a friend in our ward and the quilt was a gift from Clara's great-grandparents on Paul's side, the Robertsons.

June 26, 2011

Driving home at the end of our vacation with Paul's family at Huntington Lake.  Clara didn't travel quite as well on the way home as she did on the way there - she got to hot, the sun was in her eyes, and then we think she got scared when she woke up and nobody was in the back with her.  So we ended up moving stuff around so I could sit with her. 

 When we got home, Paul and Clara took a nap together on the couch.

June 25, 2011

Kayaking on the lake.

June 24, 2011

Going for a walk along the beach at Huntington Lake.

June 23, 2011

Playing Scrabble at the lake with Paul's grandma and aunt. 

June 22, 2011

There are two large photos on the wall behind the couch and whenever I am feeding Clara she likes to gaze at them.

June 21, 2011

It has been really hot so I have been wearing skirts and putting my hair up every day. 

June 20, 2011

Hanging out in the Bumbo again.  She LOVES this thing and it cracks me up how she looks like she's all kicking back.

 I also picked strawberries from the garden.  This is the entire harvest which was sad, but they were SO delicious.  We are going to have to double the number of strawberry plants we have next year I think. 

I also wrote thank you cards while baby girl was napping.  I probably shouldn't admit this, but I HATE writing thank you cards.

 After her bath tonight Clara totally fell asleep in her diaper while Paul was feeding her.  She looks awfully relaxed, doesn't she?  And boy-oh-boy is she putting on the ounces. 

June 19, 2011

We had Stake Conference today so I snapped this picture while I was getting both Clara and myself ready for church.  She was still feeling a little bit sleepy.

After we got back, Paul got to open Father's Day presents.  Clara was dressed up all pretty for the occasion.  It was also her 1 month birthday!

Clara was pretty happy about celebrating Father's Day.

 Gazing at Daddy who is reading his Father's Day card from Mom.  Incidentally, Clara gave him an orange and blue tie (the traditional Father's Day gift for his first official Father's Day), and I gave him a gift certificate for a pedicure.  Paul has never had a professional pedicure before, but I'm pretty sure he is going to love it.  Our friend Ginny got the same thing for her husband. 

 I had to include this picture to show off Clara's darling dress.  Gymboree again - I love that place.

June 18, 2011

Today we supported adoption by getting Frostys from Wendy's, which was donating half of its profits from sales of Frostys to an adoption foundation this weekend. 

 Clara also tried out her Bumbo for the first time today.  It went over really well.  She seemed to really like being able to sit up and she was so darn cute in it.

I am in love with this little outfit.  It is one of the very first ones I bought for her when we found out that she was going to be ours.  

June 17, 2011

It was such a beautiful day that I decided to take Clara outside to the backyard in the afternoon shade so that she could take a nap and I could read on a blanket.

 All cleaned up and looking so pretty.