Claire's First Birthday

February is birthday month. Claire's is the 5th, and Lauren's is the 9th. For Lauren's first b-day, we had all of our friends from church, family, and a few other friends. We wanted to throw a special party for Claire, and to accomodate the number of people, we decided to have two parties. The first was with our church friends, and it was a triple party: Claire's B-day, Luke's B-day (a friend's baby whose due date we stole, he was born three days later), and the Super Bowl. More about the second party in a separate post.The cupcakes were made by Michelle (Luke's mom) and myselfThe guy's thought they'd be funny! (Hippe Earthday Lucy Liar, in case you can't make it out)What's going on here?Come on, Claire, our rendition of Happy Birthday doesn't sound that bad!See, here's a pretty cupcake :-) Hmm...I don't think I like this mess (I guess she's inherited my dislike for slimy things)
Please, Daddy, if it feels this gross, it can't taste good!! (disclaimer: she was up past bedtime) The day after her party, she was feeding herself for the first time with a spoon

January Highlights

A few picture highlights from January: Lauren always wants to share with Claire
Lauren took swimming lessons at Hugh Smith (where I teach water aerobics) for 10 weeks
Our MOMS Club took a tour of the local fire station. I think they need older volunteers, ones that can at least reach the pedals, but I think they do have Good Samaratin laws that would protect her if she tried to help, right?
Firegirl Claire
Fighting pretend fires sure is hard work! Falling asleep in the bike stroller on the way home.