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8 month sheep photo

Originally uploaded by chocolate spoon

Wow — I can’t believe another month has gone by! Here’s Clara’s 8-month photo with the ever-shrinking sheep! Its been a busy month — Clara is crawling, climbing on things trying to stand up, running around the house in her walker, swimming (well, she had 2 swim classes and didn’t really like it, so we’re going to just try it ourselves in our pool more slowly), shredding magazines, and Skyping a lot with her grandparents and others.  She’s eating “stage 2″ jars of food and little fruit-flavored toddler Puffs (or apparently is at daycare, at home she mostly plays with them.) S started a new job last week so our schedule is up in the air again, but we’re trying to adjust…

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7 Month Sheep Photo

Originally uploaded by chocolate spoon

Clara is 7 months old today! Here she is getting much bigger than her sheep!

She’s crawling backwards really well (still hasn’t quite figured out forward) and can pull herself up to standing a little bit in the right circumstances (though she can’t stay up). She’s added a lot to her food repertoire — her favorites so far seem to be sweet potatoes and carrots, and she does pretty well with applesauce and pears, still not so hot on broccoli or bananas. She has a bit of a cold right now (as does everyone in her class) and is teething like mad (but nothing has broken through yet).

Mom and Bill sent along these photos of Betty and Liz in their graduation regalia! Congrats to both of them!!!

Big weekend!  Both Betty and Liz are graduating from college!  Wow!  Hopefully photos will be sent…  (Of course since I remember when Betty was Clara’s size, this is really hard to get my mind around…)

And congrats to Annie who will be graduating from high school next month and then is off to Chapel Haven!

Thank goodness for air conditioning!