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!!

Claire's First Wedding!!

Happy Baby!

Cutie Pie!
Claire loves Cups!
Mommy, Daddy, and Claire at Rachel's Wedding
Claire's dress was too cute!

Auntie Rachel got married today, it was a beautiful wedding and she looked gorgeous as always! Claire was in attendance, and mommy was a bridesmaid, so Daddy, Grandma Crystal, Fredpa, and Uncle Billy got to spend a lot of time with Claire. Claire enjoyed her day, she danced, and talked to all kinds of new friends! I can't wait until she can dance on her own. We are very excited about next weekend for Jamie's Wedding! Hopefully Claire will have just as good as she did today! This weekend was the Lexington Blueberry Festival we didn't make it to the actual event but we did watch the fireworks and Claire LOVED them. Although she did fall asleep for the finale and she was out, didn't even flinch! We had a very exciting weekend, Sunday was Grandpa Jay's birthday! We went over to Ashland to spend some time with family and celebrate! We got to spend some time with cousin Brayden which is always a good time! We also got our approval for her surgery we are just waiting for the doctor to call me back and schedule!!! Hopefully by the end of the week we will know our day! And we are wondering when these TEETH will finally make their debut, she has really been fussy, Auntie Dani bets that it will be this weekend at the wedding! I guess we will find out...I can't believe she is almost 6 months old! It is wild, before we know it she will be a year old! Heartbreaking but exciting at the same time! She is still TALKING haha, the girl loves to talk Mitch and I are really in for it. I will post again once we have all the information for surgery.

the park!

Claire got to visit one of the parks by our house today. Daddy, Mommy, and Claire walked to the park and Claire got to swing, and go down the slide with daddy. She had a really good time, it was a little on the hot side but she was happy. Our little girl is on the move! She is pretty much crawling, her version that is, she's got the arms and one leg going and drags one leg too. She is sitting up for long periods of time 20 minutes or more. It is so cute she will sit and play with her toys, such a big girl! She's doing really good eating, she LOVES sweet potatoes! She is talking up a storm!!! We don't know what exactly she is saying but that's ok! She is still saying dada and throwing some more in there nanana and ingainga. Of course mama hasn't been one of them. No teeth yet!! We are anxiously waiting their arrival. She is still sleeping pretty good through out the night, some days better than others. And she laughs ALL the time!! and loves to scream! We are really enjoying being parents. We got some news on surgery, we were diagnostically approved for BCMH and for treatment(surgery). We should be receiving our information in the mail by Saturday, so hopefully we will have a date by next week! Dr. Seitz was hoping she wouldn't be moving but unfortunately we didn't have any control of that, and she is not stopping now. We started massage therapy to help with her neck and that is going well. We have a busy next two weeks, one of my best friends Rachel, is getting married and I am in the wedding! and the next weekend my cousin Jamie is also getting married in PA. So we will be doing some traveling for that one.We are excited to see family and friends and show off Claire!!!

5 months!

Our sweet baby girl is 5 months old! where has the time gone??? She is so much fun right now she is sitting, talking, and eating! She loves her baby food, she hasn't found something she doesn't like yet! She LOVES to talk......A LOT! She loves saying Dadadada of course and we swear she says "i love dada". She is trying to crawl and is pretty close, they said at Physical Therapy her neck was delaying that a bit. We are still working on her torticollis doing stretches and everything we can to help her. But it is still there, I will be having a PT coming to the house hopefully soon to help too. We are still waiting on BCMH to process her paper work so we can schedule her surgery. We have some more funny videos of the girl. This video is of her and Ralph (Grammie's dog) he had a toy she played with the day before and she was mad he had it.We went to her Godmother's house this week and she has a little kitten and she loved him! I am guessing Claire will like animals! She is on the move and hopefully Daddy and I can handle it! We are thinking the teeth are going to be making their debut here pretty soon. She has been a little bit crabby and not sleeping the best, which makes us suspect it will be soon. She had her first boo-boo this week, she rolled off Mommy and Daddy's bed. Which luckily is low to the ground, we no longer can leave her alone on the bed. She had a pretty good bump only cried for a minute or two and was off again trying to crawl. She's tough!! She is amazing and we can't wait for tomorrow may bring!!

Claire's Baptism

Chloe and Claire at Grandma Crystal's.
Daddy holding Claire after the big ceremony!
CHLOE!
Uncle Joe with Claire and Chloe
Claire's godparents, Uncle Matt and Auntie Andrea and Mommy and Daddy.
Claire getting a "dip in the pool" as people were calling it.
Claire with her Godmother Andrea before the baptism started. We thought she looked like a doll!
Claire in her new robe from Aunt Jeanie! Getting a bath for her BIG day!
Chloe and Claire getting ready for bed we put them in the same pajamas and didn't know it!!

Claire and Landon hanging with Grandpa Richey on Saturday.

Claire had quite a fun weekend, she had all kinds of family in town and got baptized on Sunday. She was very good on for the entire baptism ceremony. We had a lovely get together at my parents house afterward, it was so nice to see everyone. Claire got to see some her cousins, Chloe, Landon, and Brayden. Claire is starting to really want to move, she start rocking so we are guessing the girl will be on the move any day now! And she is a little chatter box, I swear she says Hi and Bye bye! We were leaving my parent's last night and my dad told her bye and we both swear she said bye bye!! It was so cute. We had a great visit with Uncle Brad, Auntie Dani, and cousin Chloe. Chloe encouraged Claire to crawl since she is crawling, standing, and walking too! I am absolutely exhausted and so is Mitch but it is so nice to have our family in town for a visit. Claire is still working on her two bottom teeth we feel them but they haven't decided to pop through yet, we are taking bets on when they will make their debut! I also have a video of Grandma Crystal and Claire playing peek a boo! It was hysterical she was laughing so much!! We definitely have a happy baby in our lives and we love it!

On a side note we want to thank everyone who was able to make it to the baptism it really meant a lot to see all the friends and family there! We loved seeing you all!

A Big Girl!!!

Claire sleeping with Daddy

Carter John Boehm born July 9th!

Claire in her play gym at Grandma Tracy's she loves it!

I'm sorry I haven't updated in awhile, we have been a bit busy. She had her evaluation with Help Me Grow on the 14th. They were very impressed with her cognitive skills and verbal skills. (haha yes we will have a little talker!) They are going to help with torticollis as well, she is getting better.....which is good. She has begun the stages of teething!!! The poor thing doesn't feel too well so hopefully these teeth decide to pop out soon. She has been eating her baby food she is loving her fruit! She is rolling over a lot more and she trying to sit up. It is crazy! she also likes to try to stand, Let's hope cousin chloe doesn't teach her any tricks when she is here, she is walking!!! My Aunt Cindy came to visit last Wednesday from St. Louis to meet Lil Claire Bear! Claire loved her! Her face lit up and of course there was a smile the second she met her. Claire got to do a lot of shopping while she was here, which she didn't mind. We have her christening this weekend, I am running around cleaning the house and figuring last minute details for my parent's house. Claire also got to go to wedding shower this past weekend for my Auntie Rachel!! And July 9th her little friend Carter John Boehm was born! Auntie Lala had her baby boy EARLY!

3 fingers and a thumb!

What a busy weekend~! Thursday Claire and I went to the Cleveland Clinic to meet with Dr. Seitz, and we got some great news! Her procedure will be an outpatient procedure and only last 4 hours! She will be having bone removed from the middle of her foot to be used as thumbs on each hand, her fingers will be split that are webbed, they will sew up the middles of each foot and straighten out the big toes. The excess skin from the feet will hopefully be used as skin graphs on her fingers that are being split. And there is bone in her hand that they will move up to use as another finger for each hand!!! I'm so happy it's outpatient because the surgery will be at the facility we are used to going to in Beachwood. It's next to a very nice mall but I doubt we will be going there the day of surgery. Her surgery will be at the end of September early October. We are waiting for the nurse to call and set up the date. We are still waiting on BCMH and want to be sure everything is processed before the surgery. After our little adventure to Beachwood on Thursday we headed home, then headed to Cincinnati for the night with Uncle Matt, Aunt Desi, and cousin Landon. Then on Friday we ventured off for Knoxville......and Claire was really good and we are really lucky. She cried the last 30 minutes of each trip because she was ready to get out of her car seat. She got to visit with her Grandpa Richey and Grandma Vicki, Aunt Katie and Uncle Jason, Cousin Collin, Aunt Sara and Cousin Emily too!! Just a great weekend of visiting with everyone. We had a great 4th of July and Claire actually liked the fireworks!! Her dad and grandpa set off a few, but there were enough going off all around their house! Claire had PT this morning she is doing really well and then we ran a few errands. We are on the go!! Claire also turns 4 months today!! I can't believe it!! She is becoming such a little lady! She is getting more interested in her food, which is good, and more interested in what Daddy and I are eating also. She has been sleeping in her crib through the night which is another great accomplishment! I just took her to the doctor for her 4 month check up, she is 16 lbs 5 oz and 26 inches long! Although I think she weighs a bit less she had a full diaper on when they weighed her. She is in the 97th percentile for length and 95th percentile for weight! geesh she made up for lost time!! Mitch and I are still trying to find out who she got her length from OBVIOUSLY not us!All in all our doctor's visit was a good one!! We don't go back until September!