Claire's Laugh

This is a short clip of my favorite sound...Claire's laugh. She is blessed with a fun and silly Daddy that she finds so amusing! Enjoy!

Video Uploading

Well, I have finally figured out how to post videos to the blog!! Since Blogspot never would cooperate, I have to do it the hard way. Now I embed the videos straight from my Facebook page. So, if you're one of my Facebook friends, I'm sorry that these will all be duplicates! Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the videos. I'm sure I'll get busy posting new ones soon, now that I have it all figured out.

Claire's First Steps!

Here they are...Claire's first steps as they happened on September 5!! What an exciting moment. I'm such a proud mama!!

Dedicated.....or slightly insane???

Yesterday we had an adventure. Since I missed out on going to the UGA/South Carolina game a few weeks ago, Lee decided to surprise me with tickets to last night's game against ASU. I was so excited!!!!!...that is, until I saw the forecast. But, being an optimist, I thought, "it won't be that bad." HA!!!

"Looks good to me!"

After dropping Claire off to stay with Mom and Gretchen, we spent the morning at the PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. Lee had been given tickets by Humana, and we enjoyed watching Tiger putt a stones throw away from their air conditioned tent. Fun! I wish we had just been able to stay there all day :) But after the final pair finished their round (Tiger was in 2nd place), we headed for the shuttle bus line. After 45 minutes in line inside a tent, we emerged and could see the buses lined up!! Hooray!! Unfortunately, as soon as we were in the portion of the line that was outdoors, the bottom fell out of the clouds. I had brought an umbrella, so we were somewhat covered. Our feet and shoes were soaked, and by the time we reached our car, the rest of us was pretty wet as well. But, hey, we were on the way to see the Dawgs play!!

On the way to Athens we drove through some of the most torrential rain I've seen in a long time. Well, since last Monday anyway. It was awful. To make matters worse, every place we stopped to buy ponchos was completely sold out (thank you, 100 year flood). We finally found and bought ponchos at a Wal-Mart in Lawrenceville and headed to the monsoon between the hedges. To say that we got wet would be a hysterical understatement. But being the true, die-hard fans that we are, we were there from kickoff until the last second field goal that brought the 'W' to the Bulldogs. What a night!! As miserable and cold as I was, I had SO much fun. Lee and I laughed harder than we've laughed in a long time. It was as if we were dating again--bonding and acting like kids again. Of course I can't guarantee that I would feel the same way had the Dawgs lost :)

Cell phones, cell phones...

Claire is absolutely fascinated with cell phones. Well, she's actually fascinated with anything that has buttons. Since cell phones also light up and make cool noises, she is especially fond of them. Any time anyone has a cell phone in sight, she thinks that it should be hers. She loves to put it up to her ear (usually backwards) and chatter into it. The other day Mom stopped by after school to check on us. While here, Dad called her on her cell phone. Well, Claire wouldn't let her alone until she was allowed to talk to her Papa. We put Dad on speaker phone and Claire carried the phone around forever, just chattering to him. He would tell her to do things, like touch her nose, and she followed all of his commands. When it was time for him to go, he told her "bye, bye" and she held out the phone and waved at him. It was very cute! I'm afraid Lee and I might have a socialite on our hands--we better start pricing wireless plans now!!

Pointing at "mama" as Papa requested

She has very important things to say...

"Bye, Bye Papa!!"

How 'bout them DAWGS!!!!!

My little Bulldog has been enjoying football season so far. She sits on the couch next to her daddy and cheers the Bulldogs on to victory!! She is getting very good at the "Gooooooooooooo DAWGS!! SIC 'EM" cheer and has the arm motions down. She's even signed 'Touchdown' a time or two when the announcers say it loud enough :) Of course she does it on command, too!

Last week when I was unable to attend the South Carolina game in Athens, Lee was kind enough to bring back surprises for both of his girls. I got a lovely red vest to wear on game days and Claire received a beautiful A.J. Green jersey! She tried it out for the first time last night during the Arkansas game. She loved strutting her stuff at the restaurant and at

Grandmommy's house while we visited with Grammy and Grandaddy Bill. She looks great in red and black :)

Daddy's little Bulldog

Peering over at us from upstairs at Grandmommy's house...did I mention she learned to climb stairs?!?!?!

Getting behind...

So sorry I've been behind in my postings!  There has been a lot going on and I just haven't gotten around to writing about it.  The big news is that Claire is walking!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am going to try to upload the video of her first steps (YES, I got them on film!) to the blog so everyone can see.  In the meantime, enjoy these few random pictures and keep checking back for more posts!

Enjoying her lunch...all over her face of course!

Getting ready to go to church

Her poor bumpy face!!  She had an allergic reaction to mosquito bites and had big awful places all over her.  She looked like she either had chickenpox or Lyme disease, but luckily, it was only hives.  She's nicely recovered now, thank the Lord :)

Oh, how she loves her Grandmommy!  She celebrated Grandmommy's birthday with her at Provino's.