Day 9

I am thankful for my sweet little Claire.  She gets the title of the youngest being 2 minutes younger than Connor.  She was welcomed into the world to a big sister who adored her from the start!  She needed a short stay in the NICU when she was born but showed them how tough she was within hours.  She has been our tough one since.  I'm so thankful for her sweetness.  I tried to pick some of my favorite pictures.

 

She was such a small and little thing.

This picture is when we were waiting to leave the hospital.  I did not lay them down like this.  Claire would always find Connor and snuggle up to him.

Such a pretty girl on her baptism day.

She had quite a personality from the beginning.  She is blowing bubbles in her thing 2 outfit!

I loved dressing Claire up in her cute little outfits.  Girls are so much fun to dress!

She never was a baby that liked to be held to sleep.  So, here where daddy is trying to get her to sleep and fell asleep.  

I just adore these two.  They picky sticky monthly pictures are so cute.  

Sometimes she is hard to photograph.  She gets shy and quiet when someone takes her pictures. Not here though!

I will miss those cute little headbands I used to put her in.

Two years old now!  She is so girly girl and loves babies.

Laney started training her young to dress up!

Don't ever doubt that this little thing can't do something....even if it is lift a pumpkin as big as she is!

Or Houdini it out of her shirt while buckled in a car seat!

Being silly in Colorado.

She was the cutest little monkey especially with her banana bag!

She may need some therapy for the trauma I caused by having her visit Santa!

Always taking care of her babies.  I adore watching her kiss them and put them to bed.  She loves all babies.

She was so sick in April when she had to stay in the hospital.  She proved how tough she was too!

Who couldn't be happy in the hospital getting all this individual attention and playing 2 ipads at a time!

Even princesses can be doctors!

 The friendship and love twins have is something I feel so blessed to experience.

Always my girly diva girl!

Feeding her baby at the American Girl Store

 She picked the carseat at the store and has probably played with it every single day since.

 So, today is Claire Este's day.  Her middle name is after both her Grandma's moms.  They are both named Esther and Este was my fun take on it.  She is a sweet, loving, firecracker that I am blessed to have call me mom.