Christmas time!!

We had a great Christmas with family & new toy fun for Clementine! On December 18th we went to Uvalde for the big Turner family Christmas & Clementine got to see Great-Grandma Shaw. Then this last weekend a whirlwind (that's how if feels anyway) of family get together & still managed to have a nice quiet Christmas morning at our place. It was great!

Playing in the grass.

15 month check up

Clementine is a growing girl! She had her 15 month check-up on Wednesday & did great! She is in the 50% for practically everything, a little bit higher on height, but not much. She's 24 lbs, 5 oz; 31 inches tall & I forget the head measurement, but it's right on target.



Also, she got her Polio vaccine & we opted to get our boosters for Tetanus & Whooping cough. Let me tell you my arm HURTS!!! It didn't hurt getting the shot, but it is super sore AND it's been TWO days!!

Exhausted & Sick

Poor Clementine is sick right now. Runny nose & fever. She only wants her mommy, so I've been playing/holding her non-stop. Poor baby! She is so sweet though. When I hold her she pats me like she is comforting ME.

Food, please

Funny story. Chris & I were working in the morning and Clementine was running around playing. This was about 8 am. She hadn't had breakfast yet, usually I feed her around 8:30 am. She comes into the office carrying our small frying pan and starts signing "food".

Needless to say she got breakfast.

Car problems

We recently had a blowout on our van & are having to replace all FOUR tires. *sigh*

Here's Clemetine checking out the library selection at the Toyota dealership, while we wait for them to look at the car.

She's running around with her new turtle backpack on (Thanks again Erin!!). She loves it! (this is not a great picture, I'll try to get a better one later)

Growing girl

Clementine. I know that you are growing taller everyday, but do you need to pull *everything* that you can reach down onto the floor?

5 teeth & Pumpkin/Ball

Clementine now has 5 teeth! She likes to run her tongue over them. It's so cute her sticking her little tongue out feeling them.

Today at the grocery store they had a ton of pumpkins so I decided I wanted to decorate a little and bought 3 for the front porch. I put them out while we were unloading groceries from the car & asked Clementine how she liked them. She took one look, went over to the small white one and said "Ball". It took me 10 minutes to get her back in the house because she kept trying to pick up the "ball". It was the cutest thing ever.

Here she is in her Princess Leia costume. It's blurry but it's the only good picture where the hat/hair thing is on her head. She kept pulling it off.


Here I was playing music for her & making her laugh! She has a great laugh!

European Vacation!!

We are back from our 2 weeks in Europe & boy are my arms tired...no really, they are! We had a great time & saw lots of wonderful sites. I have lots of pictures to go through (over 1300!!) but here are a few really good ones of Clementine (since that's why you are reading this anyway!)

Here she is asleep in front of Sacré Coeur (Sacred heart) located on top of the Montmartre hill in Paris

Her first carousel ride

Here she is asleep in front of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre in Paris

She is having a good time strapped onto Daddy's back in Basel, Switzerland

The Roman Coliseum looms in the background

Inside the Coliseum

Having fun at the Roman Forum


There will be more to come, but I think I need another nap, Clementine is already on her 3rd nap of the day! :)

More Bday pictures!

I finally downloaded the pictures from my camera so here are some cute shots!!

Getting Ready

Sweet as can "Bee" cupcakes

Birthday gifts



she loves cupcakes, but not hats!

Sweet Birthday Girl!

Birthday Girl!

Clementine turned 1 whole year old!!! We had a great party. All our family & friends were wonderful & we had a great time with everyone.

Isn't she just the cutest little cupcake, ever?




I'll put up more pictures, but I just had to share the cuteness. That way everyone can have a super sweet day!!!

One more week!!

Next Saturday Clementine will be one whole year old! I can't believe how fast it has all gone by.

And another one!

I've always heard that if a baby's teeth don't come in until late that means they will have stronger teeth (which I hope is true) and that they get several of them all at once. Well, I think that last part may be true also, because it appears Clementine is getting one of her top teeth also. So we have one on bottom (felt & seen 2 days ago) & one on top (felt & seen today). She's going to look like a little mole, but a cute mole.

A New Arrival!

No not that kind (silly people)! Clementine finally got a tooth!! It is a bottom one and is teeny-tiny. She won't let us look at it for long, I think it hurts her a little.

And another baby stage begins!

Cuteness update

Clementine is so funny! She likes to blow raspberries, so every once in a while she will come up and blow a raspberry on my leg. She cracks me up!

Dragon fruit

Today Clementine got to try Dragon fruit for the first time. I wish I had a picture of it, but she had seed all over her!! She looked like she had been attacked by fleas!!

Spilt Milk

Glass baby bottles are really nice when a baby is small. They wash easy & you don't have to worry about yucky plastic chemicals seeping into the milk. But when your baby turns into a toddler who likes to play the "How hard can I throw *insert item name here* on the ground", glass bottles are not so much fun. They quickly go from being functional bottles to thousands of tiny glass pieces all over the floor mixed in a pool of milk.

Although, as embarrassing as it is to admit, my kitchen floor has *never* been this clean. Not even when we moved in. There is nothing more motivating than a baby that does not discriminate when putting things from the floor into her mouth.

Thank you Chef Boyardee

(sung to the oompa loompa song)
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo,
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me.


What do you get with Chef Boyardee?
something tasty like ravioli 'n cheese!
Eating as much as a little kid eats,
I don't like the look of it.

"More"

Clementine just did the sign for "more"!!

We still need to work on the application of the word since she had a cracker in each hand & a small pile in front of her, but it's a huge step!! Yay!

More walking!!

I love this hair clip!!!

This Etsy shop called Hair Bow Holders has the *cutest* hair clips & I *know* Clementine *needs* the travel hair bow holder!!

First Steps!!

Baptism after party

The after party was lots of fun with food, family, friends & Cake!!

Mitch, Keiko & Clementine

Mitch & Clementine singing in G sharp

Cake!

Let the fun begin!!



Notice the giant glob of frosting in her ear? Yeah, that was fun to get out. :|



If anyone has any more pictures of the party I would love to have them. I didn't get many during the party. We did, however, get a few of Clementine & her cousin Alex swinging during a party break!

Clementine's Baptism

I know this is a little late, but things have been crazy lately!! We had Clementine's Baptism on June 13th & it was so nice to have friends & family together to celebrate our adorable baby girl!

At the Font with Clementine's Godparents Kelly & Melina Wouters

Now with the Grandparents

Quick picture with the Grandparents before the service

Chillin' out afterward!

Quick note: Clementine *loves* to splash in water & during the service when the Rev. leaned her forward to scoop water & put it over her head, what did Clementine do? Reach down & splash in the font! Nothing says "I have the Holy Spirit" than splashing away in Holy water!!


Clementine is lucky (and so are we!) to have two wonderful people as her Godparents.


More pictures of the after-party to come!