We’re celebrating Easter in weekend in Bend this year with my parents. I completely forgot that it was Easter and haven’t really done anything for it – fortunately Grandma to the rescue and she bought Clare an Easter basket and Easter dress. Since Clare’s a little to young for egg hunts, and we’re not church-goers, we’re not going anywhere but Clare looks awfully cute in her Easter dress here at the house.
We also gave Clare another hair cut this weekend – this time a little more cut than her last trim. Grandma did it in the kitchen and we all got involved either supervising (me), distracting Clare (J), cutting (Grandma) and photographing (Grandpa). It turned out a little shorter than Daddy may have preferred, but it will definitely stay out of her eyes now (which was an issue before – see pictures below for evidence), and since it grows so fast I know it’ll be long again soon enough. Hopefully now it’ll grow out a little more evenly. before she had some really long strands over her ears and really short strands in the back.
Last weekend Pat, Dave and Rylee visited and we went to the tulip festival in Woodburn. It was crowded, but a really pretty day and so fun to see fields of tulips. Unfortunately Clare started to get crabby by the time we got to the flowers, so we didn’t have any photo ops of her in the tulips (darn!) but here are some pics of her trying out her new backpack for the first time.
Some of Clare’s latest tricks are that she’s getting incrementally closer to crawling. She’s pretty good at scooting backwards, and rotating around side to side. She can actually cover some ground when she wants to. She still can’t go forward though (unless she’s on a wood floor – then she pulls herself around with her hands… straight to the dogs food…). But up until a few days ago she was only using her arms, she hadn’t quite figured out how to use her legs to propel herself. The last couple of days I’ve seen her pull her knees up and even push herself up to her hands and knees and ‘rock’ a little bit. I don’t know how long it will take before she makes the connection to use that motion to move her body forward, but she’s a little bit closer.
She’s also really getting into dancing. Any music will make her bob her little body and sway a little bit (the cutest thing ever). She’ll also mimic our motions when we wave so we do a lot of waving hello and bye-bye.
Lastly, here are some pictures Mary took of the many faces of Clare. I like this one because if you look closely you can see her little bottom teeth! You can also see why Little Miss was in need of a hair cut. She was looking a bit like a raggamuffin. Unfortunately she’s also figured out how to pull out barrettes and pony-tail holders, so my only solution is to keep her hair trimmed short around her face.
