We’ve had a wonderful white Christmas in Colorado with the fam. Clare handled her plane ride beautifully (perhaps better than the adults – but waking up a mere hour and forty-five minutes before the plane was due to take off is a whole other conversation). She’s been the center of attention here at Auntie Deb’s and Uncle JP’s and loves every minute of it. You can imagine that between my parents, Debbie’s parents, JP and Deb, and Jeremy and I Clare doesn’t touch the ground very much. When she does actually get on the ground she’s working hard on rolling over, grabbing her toes and rolling from side to side, and pushing up on her hands and elbows. She’s working so hard on these skills that she practices at night when we’re trying to put her to bed – and promptly wakes herself up. Sleep has been a little bit of a struggle, but being on vacation helps. Usually we could hand her off to a grandparent in the morning and sleep in. Ahhhh… it will be sad to get back to real life when we can’t do that.

Here Clare is talking with Uncle JP. You can’t tell, but she’s saying “Thank you for the Pack ‘n’ Play Uncle JP! You bought it just for me to sleep in when I visit and I appreciate it!” She’s also thanking him for the delicious meals he’s made while we’ve been here. For those of you who don’t know, my brother is a closet chef and made some incredible, all-from-scratch Christmas meals.

When we haven’t been eating, we’ve been exploring Denver and Boulder. On Christmas night we went to the Denver Botanical Gardens to look at lights. Clare wasn’t a huge fan of her snow suit, but enjoyed the lights.

In general, she’s not enjoyed being bundled up to leave the house. She’s a Momma’s girl and prefers to be in warm weather.