The Fair!

Claire has really conquered her crawling, she is crawling so fast and like a big girl! She has a fascination with shoe laces at the moment she likes to untie them and play with them. She also went to her first Ashland County Fair and first fair! She was really good and I think enjoyed it, there was so much going on for her to look at. She saw Bunnies and Roosters and the roosters kind of scared her, but that is ok. She strolled around people watching for about 2 hours and then we decided she was getting tired so time to go! She is doing really well feeding herself too, it's so amazing what babies adapt to doing. She can eat finger foods she pinches them up with superfinger and puts them right in her mouth! It's pretty cool to watch. I wonder what she will think after surgery with all the extra digits! As it stands Nov 2nd is still surgery and we are trying to prepare ourselves for it. And as tooth watch 09 goes we are still waiting............She woke up screaming Saturday night 1:30 and cried for a good 30 to 45 minutes. Thank goodness it happened Saturday and not during the week! We have a pretty quiet October ahead of us which will be nice Pictures of the fair will be up soon!

Sunday Football!!

In her Browns outfit with Grandpa J's Terrible Towel

Cutie Pie!

Claire got to soak in her first sunday at him with all the football! We had Grandma Crystal, Grammie Tracy, Fredpa, and Grandpa J over too. Claire got to wear her Browns Cheerleader outfit for the first time and she looked GREAT!!! She wore it half of the day and the steelers cheerleader outfit the other half. My family is Steeler Fans along with Grammie Tracy and Grandpa J and Mitch's Family is Brown's Fans. So Claire roots for both teams!! She is really perfecting her crawling, still no teeth. Other than that we are just hanging out, I think we are going to try to take her to the Ashland County Fair this week. Hopefully the weather is cooperating. We are getting exciting for Halloween, haven't decided what her costume will be but we have a little bit of time.

November 2nd

Claire right before the first Football game of the YEAR Steelers vs. Titans and she's sporting her Steelers onesie! Daddy wasn't too happy but she has a Browns Cheerleader outfit she will be wearing sunday!

She fell asleep while eating again......I'm sensing a pattern

We FINALLY have a date for Claire's surgery which is November 2nd. It is a monday and will be an outpatient procedure still, so we will have it at Cleveland Clinic Beachwood. They do not know if they will be able to all 4 limbs or not, Dr. Seitz thinks he can do it, but we are just gonna think 3 so if he doesn't get it all done it's ok. The big issue with doing all four is the IV access, so Claire and I will be going up before surgery and have them check out her veins. Fingers crossed she is not like her mommy! We are excited for her surgery but in the other hand nervous. I was hoping that it would be sooner than November but you have to take what they give us. She will definitely be MOBILE(she's mobile now). We decided not to go with the helmet for Claire's soft spot, our other PT told us she wouldn't do it because Claire's wasn't that bad. Her pediatrician was against it too. And she won't have casts for Halloween!! So now I can get her whatever she wants (really whatever Mitch and I want). I bought her a pumpkin outfit on clearance last year and of course it doesn't fit! We are thinking Ladybug for this year, but who knows! We are all just happy to have a date for surgery, Hopefully she will be ready to go by Thanksgiving, because we have a trip to Knoxville to make!

Off the Charts!

Claire had her 6 month check up today and she is off the charts! Weighing in at 20 lb 1oz and 28 1/2 inches long!! How crazy is that?? Everything looks good! She is a healthy baby and got the OK for surgery. Which we still don't know our day but I will let everyone know when we do! She didn't like the shots, but who does? We don't go back until December! When she's nine months!!! Our doctor told us not to do the helmet so I will be doing some research this weekend to see what the pros and cons are for it. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!!

Surgery Update

Happy Girl!

Sleeping while eating her teething biscuit

Our Sleeping angel

I did get my very anticipated call from Cleveland Clinic on Thursday but we have run into some snags. The doctor wanted the procedure to be outpatient and last only 4 hours, when his nurse asked Anesthesiology they say that was not gonna happen. They said either he can split the surgery into two and do them as outpatient procedures or do it as one but keep her overnight and have it at Fairview hospital (associated with Cleveland Clinic). I have a feeling that he is going to do it as one surgery, because at her last appointment he said he wanted to put her under the least they could. So I am waiting to hear back on Tuesday on the decision and then HOPEFULLY we can FINALLY schedule this thing. I am thinking it's going to be October now, but who knows maybe it will be the end of September. Other than that we are having a good weekend, besides the OSU game we are enjoying ourselves. Claire and I are looking forward to daddy being home on Monday!!! We hope everyone enjoys their LABOR DAY!!!

West Virginia Wedding

Fredpa and Chloe
YUM!!! My Hand!!
Uncle Joe and his girls!

Swimming!
Aunt Dani and Claire!


We had so much fun this past weekend! Claire especially because she got to take a dip in the pool and play with cousin Chloe! It was a lot of fun watching the two play with each other! On the trip down I bought Claire some teething biscuits, she ate one in the van and made a complete mess and fell asleep mid snack! She is definitely a funny girl! She loved the pool and thanks to Cousin Chloe walking circles around her, she wants to stand and walk! Yesterday she grabbed onto a basked and got on her knees ready to pull up to stand!!! Ahhhhh! Today she pulled up to standing on her own!!! She is cruising pretty good these days and goes from crawl to sit and sit to crawl. I let her pretty much get into whatever since there is going to be a time when she can't. The other day she was in the living room with daddy and she crawled into the kitchen because I was in there, it was too cute!And she is still talking up a storm!! No teeth yet but we are thinking soon, she keeps rubbing her tongue across her gums so who knows??! I still haven't heard from the Cleveland Clinic, so I will call them today and hopefully be able to set up her surgery! We had Physical Therapy this week along with Chiropractor appointment and massage therapy(the girl has the life). We talked about the dreaded helmet at PT to help with her flat spot on her head from the torticolis. And we decided we are going to do it, it was hard for me since she'll be casts too but we have to do everything we can for her. As far as the torticolis goes it is getting better, but it's not perfect. Claire is definitely keeping me busy!!! She is eating really good I think peas are the only thing she has had that she doesn't necessarily like. She is a plump little thing but has to be for her surgery. I can't believe she will be 6 months on Sunday......Crazy!! We go to the pediatrician on the 10th for her 6 month check up and I think I'm going to get 6 month portraits done before her surgery. She is really fun right now and we can't wait for what else is in store for us!!