Ma Baybee is All Growed Up

Much to my chagrin....cClare started school last week. How did she get to big? I had a hard time keeping myself together till I got outside of the school then out came the tears. Hyrum was perplexed and kept asking me why I was so sad. I got over it though and was fine the second time I dropped her off for school on Wednesday. Hyrum misses her so much when she's not here and gets really bored, Poor kid. I try to do puzzles with him and push him on the swing and play lincoln logs but it's just not the same. We miss Clare. Clare was so excited about starting school on Monday that she stayed up half of the night on Sunday working her front tooth loose and finally pulled it out at about 1:00am. She looks pretty cute without it. Good thing, cause I think it's going to take a while to grow in.

Clare on her first day of school with her LPS backpack and no front tooth and excited as can be. After numerous pictures she finally stopped me.. "Come ON mom!" Oh boy, I'm going to cry again......

Fashion Statements and Such

So apparently Clare has been paying more attention to the J.C. Penny ads in the Sunday paper or something because her sense of fashion (and poses) has blossomed......for better or for worse. Last week she came to me and said: "Mom, I want to wear this today." and when I turned around, I saw what "this" was. Long sleeved floral shirt, plaid shorts, argyle tights and pink cowboy boots. Sweet. I said "Yes, you can wear that if I can take a picture of you first." So Clare whipped out these supermodel poses (don't know where they came from.) to display her super sweet outfit. Love It.

She is growing up so fast and is so much fun to have around. Yesterday after some whining and crying she came to me and said through tears: "Mommy, Hyrum just pushed me right here!" pointing to her heart "right on the Holy Ghost!"

What a cutie.

Palmer Cousin Fun

We had a really fun weekend last weekend when we went to Utah to play with our Palmer family for a few days. We went camping Thursday and Friday then on Saturday we went to David's nephew Brad's baptism in Clinton and hung out there and at Becky's house on Saturday. Sunday we got ready slowly and came home. It was a very fun if exhausting weekend. Thursday night when we were up camping there was a really bad, long thunderstorm with rain and lightning, the works so nobody slept very well. Fallon was also teething and running a fever of 102 so she had a rough time for a couple of days. Here is Becky doing what she does best: Making delicious food. She made a really amazing strawberry cobbler off the top of her head up there. She had fresh strawberries, strawberry jam, a yellow cake mix, a cube of butter and some red berry flavored mt dew. It turned out sooooo good. I am going to have to try and make it some time.

Natalie and Clare. Clare had a ball with her cousin. She has missed her SO MUCH!Ty, and Natalie with my kids. Aren't they adorable? They played so good together and Tyler has go go be the best 9 year old there is. Love that kid.

Fallon was getting to know her cousins too. Here she is with Chase. Uncle Shane is the best snuggler of babies. He can get them to calm down/smile/sleep when no one else can. The Boyz. We had an AWESOME time. I have missed being able to spend time with our Palmer family. I am very blessed to have married into such a great family.