Allie trying to avoid the camera's flash!

She kept making this face today when I was taking a picture, even though the flash was not going off. I find it pretty funny, but it makes it more difficult to get a cute photo of her!

Allie is 8 months old!

My pretty little Allie is getting so big! She is starting to move around a lot and we think that she will be crawling soon! She is a happy and laid back baby, until it's time to eat or sleep!

Allie cleaning up in the sink!

She had fun and it's such an easy way to bathe her! I have a feeling that this will become a frequent thing!

Pamma's Birthday!!

We had so much fun celebrating Pamma's birthday! Claire had the honor of sitting next to the birthday girl and her Grandpa Dennis, and had a lot of fun playing with the little rubber duckies!

Allie's first time in a restaurant style high chair.
Allie pulling Pamma's hair. Hair pulling is one of Allie's favorite activities!
We hope that you had a wonderful day and we look forward to celebrating more with you! Clarie and Allie love their Pamma so much!

Berry Good Girl!

Claire really likes raspberries and blueberries. At Grammie and Papo's house, they have a bunch of raspberry bushes that we get to pick from. Amazingly. Claire's bucket is always empty! She eats them faster than we can pick them. Here she is enjoying the fruits of their labor!

Claire counting

I love this video of her counting to ten. She is so confident in this and her little personality shows through.

Baptism Gown

I was never able to get a good shot of just Allie in her gown on the day of her baptism, so I had to dress her up and snap a few while it still fit!Allie Angel
Reading her book from Uncle Chris, Aunt Luz, and Cousin William. I love this pic of her studying the book about God.
So sweet, so happy!

Allie 7.5 months

She is teething, so everything goes into her mouth.
She's such a little sweetie!

Fun at home!

Nice 'do! Claire is starting to want bows or a ponytail in her hair. This isn't a typical look for her, no need to worry!She was shrieking with excitement in her tunnel.

Claire and Allie in their "Lyssie" pants! They were matching girls today!

Claire's 22nd Month

This past month has been a time of rapid development for Claire. I feel like she has really grown up! This month, she has successfully counted to ten, can spell her name, and can identify many colors, especially green, blue, yellow and orange. If I give her a yellow cup, she will tell me, "It's yellow Momma." She has been enjoying being outdoors a lot this summer and continues to be our little goofy girl and sweet big sis to Allie.

Red, White and Blue!

Getting all four to cooperate is quite a task!

On July 4th, we had a great time at the Hawthorn Woods Country Club with Pamma and Grandpa Dennis and the rest of the gang! Claire adores going in the big pool with her Grandpa and Allie really liked it too!

Allie checking out the baby pool.

Fun in Park Ridge with Great Grandma

Park Ridge puts on concerts in the summer, and we were able to enjoy the first part of it last Friday. It was such a lovely evening. Claire and Maddie danced to the music, which is totally adorable and hilarious. Claire has some crazy looking moves! Great Grandma and the babies. Dane is always going after Allie!

Sweet little Allie

Dane wrestling Allie, like usual!

This captures my silly and happy Claire bear having fun with Maddie before we left for the concert.

Allie riding solo!

Every so often when Matt is home and Claire is napping, I get the chance to take Allie (and Nappie) for a walk! I think she likes it!

Allie and Dane's double baptism and party!

Lyssie entertaining all 4 kiddos and introducing Claire to her first red vine! Grammie with Dane

Allie attacking Papo!

Dane looking so cute!

Great Grandma with Allie. We were so happy that she was able to make the trip up for the baptism!

Party People!

Everyone wanted to know how Granby and Lyssie were able to make the yummy filling into a heart! That was such a delicious and beautiful cake!

Cake time! Claire went from lap to lap, so who knows how much she consumed!

Babies with their cakes designed with love by Granby and Lyssie. Thank you so much, they were both awesome!

Happy Allie!

Allie's red velvet with strawberry fluff filling and Dane's stained glass cross cake.

We were so happy to have Greg, Gramps, Granby, Lyssie, Cayle and Cooper join us! Claire loves asking, "Where's ______" insert Cooper, Granby, Gramps, Lyssie, Cayle, etc!

After the ceremony with our Godchildren.

Pastor Fred performed the ceremony. The babies were so great and there were no tears! It was so precious baptizing the babies together. Allie wore the same gown that Claire wore, as well as her dad, Uncles, and Pamma!