Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Clara turned 2 today! With the impending move (we’re about half way packed and the house should be ready to move into in about 2 more weeks of fix-ups) we didn’t manage to throw her a party or anything, but tried to fill the day with some of her favorite things and will be bringing [...]

It’s our date anniversary again — the 5th year in a row that we’ve gone to Maurizio’s for dinner on August 20th (site of our first date) and the second one we’ve brought Clara to (here’s her there last year.)  Each year we tell them it’s our first-date anniversary and that we always come back [...]

Happy anniversary to us today!  Love you Meep! Flash back three years

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mom sent us a fabulous little Flip Video camera and I’ve been taking little mini videos of Clara for the past two weeks. I finally had a chance to plug them into my computer last night and used their mix tool to make this quick little mix (the music and silly little graphics are theirs). [...]

Clara is 5 months old today! I took some photos of her with her sheep this morning but she was making goofy faces in most of them. She seems to be in the middle of a growth spurt — she’s eating all the time again (especially in the middle of the night unfortunately) — but [...]

Clara tried some more rice cereal tonight and ate quite a few bites of it (and wore quite a bit of it as well)! We have a quick video clip here of some of the fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtNra0UijTM. Note the sticking out of the tongue, but then eventually taking a real bite.

Its our anniversary today!

Two big milestones today — Clara had her first try at real food (some nice rice cereal) and her first passport arrived in the mail in plenty of time for our big trip! She wasn’t all that excited about or interested in the cereal, but did manage a couple of bites. We were excited even [...]