10 months

I can't believe Claire is 10 months!  I've even started thinking about her 1st birthday!  Once Christmas is done that will be the next thing I work on.  This has been a fun age.  Claire is now very mobile and gets into everything.  She is extremely curious and loves to explore our house.

Look at those teeth!

Adorable!

10 months:

• Claire now says "ma ma" and "da da" and means it (most of the time).  "Da da" was definitely her first word.  When we walk down the hall Claire will point at our wedding picture on the wall and say "Da!"  It's so cute.  She usually just says "ma ma" when she is in distress and needs help with something. 
• Claire is now a pro crawler.  She figured out the real way to crawl and crawls everywhere.  
• She loves to crawl to our garbage cans and dump them over. 
• If I leave Claire in her room to go wash my hands or do something quick she will usually always crawl out to the hall and come looking for me.  Or if we're playing in her room and she knows Dan is in the other room she will crawl out there to look for him.  
•  She now pulls herself to standing on everything.  She stands in her crib a lot and she even likes to pull to standing on us!  I got her a cute little table with toys on it for Christmas and I ended up giving it to her early so she would have something to stand on.  
• Claire now points at things she wants, especially when we're eating.  It's kind of nice to know what she wants.  Of course she always points at what Dan and I are eating and wants a bite.  She will also point at which book she wants me to read her.  
• She loves her books that have flaps where she can lift the flap and see what is under.  
• Claire climbed 2 stairs this month!  She crawled to the bottom of our stairs and I wondered if she would try to get up them and she did.  After 2 she was done and wanted to be carried the rest of the way.
• This month she became a really good napper.  She finally started consistently taking two long naps each day and goes down without crying majority of the time (except when she's teething).
• She learned how to wave a while ago but kind of stopped doing it, then towards the end of this month she started waving again all the time!  Pretty much at everyone she sees, even random people at the store.  
• Claire always claps when we sing.  I love it.  
• A few foods she really likes are toast, scrambled eggs, fruit, beans, tortillas, avocado, anything sweet!
• Claire had her first Thanksgiving.  My parents and my sister and her husband all came here.  Claire had turkey, rolls, mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes.  She also loved all the attention she got! 
• Claire also got to play in the snow for the very first time.  She always seems happy outside, the cold must not bother her.  
• We took her to see lights at the temple and she loved it.  She also loves to point at the lights on our Christmas tree.  

We love you, sweet Claire!
 

Snow Day

We are having quite the snow storm in St. George today!  This will be our 4th winter here and this is by far the most snow I have ever seen.  It usually snows once or twice a winter about an inch and melts by noon.  I think we have about 6 inches outside.  They even cancelled church tomorrow because St. George doesn't own any snow plows to plow the road so they are telling everyone to stay inside and not drive anywhere.

Luckily I bought Claire boots and gloves this past week!  We decided to take her out for her very first snow experience this afternoon.  She was all smiles (except when I took pictures, haha)!

We walked up the street and saw our neighbors making a huge snowman.

They needed Dan's help getting it all put together!

Cute snow baby and snow dad!