The After Party

Uncle Aaron, as taken by Daddy!

Texas Sheet Cake. Grammy this was not nearly as good as yours! Please visit soon!!

The flowers Daddy got Clara

The sweet carrots.

The vat of beanie weanies!!

Clara after her post church nap, Uncle Brandon in the background.

Clara with Grandma Loraine, the shared a lot of smiles.

Nana Cagle helped her go to sleep after all the company left, Nana's are the best. Papaw was here too but we didnt get a pic. Love you Nana and Papaw!!

Cousin Dalton and Clara look an awful lot alike!! Cousin Brayden didnt slow down enough for a picture with him. You will see in another post what they were doing!

After church we had friends and family over for dinner. Since Clara only wanted formula for dinner we let Matt and Ben choose the meal for everyone else. We had beanie weanies and sweet carrotts and hushpuppies and cornbread. Miss Linda made some special hot jalepeno cornbread for Matt! Thanks Linda!! I understand it was delicious, but as I don't eat spicy I don't know first hand. Matt got Clara some flowers on saturday and they made a nice center piece. It was alot of fun to have so many people come to show Clara how very much she is loved! thanks everyone!!

Clara's Blessing

Clara had her baby blessing yesterday! She is 11.5 weeks old! Uncle Mark blessed her and we are thrilled that she is still named Clara! (there was some speculation of last minute changes!) She was really good and did not cry at all during the prayer and gave the entire congregation a huge smile after! so big in fact she dropped her pacy!

Best Big Brother!

Clara just loves Ben. She smiles when he comes around. Don't get me wrong, they have their moments - he beaned her in the head this morning with his head and made her cry. But on this day he was hamming it up for her!

24 hour bug

Ben woke up early Sunday morning with a stomach bug. He was vomiting and running a pretty high fever. Matt volunteered to stay with him while Clara and i went to church to lead the primary music. This was the state of things when we left. Bless their hearts!

It's not the Where that matters!

Clara is a good sleeper, as long as she is being held, in her bouncy chair, or in her swing. I think she may have a little reflux cause she doesnt like to lay flat. The swing pictures are a typical night for us!

Everyone in their place...

Maybe I don't know much about 2 year olds, but I didn't expect to find mine creating the above scene. He place each block and car himself. I was laying on the couch with Clara after a long night. The blocks had been in their tray and the cars in their bag. I was impressed with his attention to detail and attention span. Maybe I don't expect enough, but I thought we would all enjoy the pictures anyway.

Americana

There are a few pieces of American Chic-Flick history that it is never too early for a girl to learn about!! We HEART Patrick Swazey!!!!

Wrapped around her finger

Clara already has both of them eating right out of her hand! They are all soo sweet!

Random Cuteness!

Dusting

A couple days ago I was changing Clara and Ben watched my use the baby powder. I thought I had set it where he could not get to it. I was wrong. I was feeding Clara the next morning and I noticed that it had gotten very quiet, I couldn't hear Ben playing. So, I went searching. The following is what I found. How did he get to the powder do you ask? Well, the stuffed Elephant in the later pictures doesn't usually set at the end of the changing table like that. That's right he moved it, stood on it, and then dusted it!