Claire 11 months

My baby is growing up. I squeeze her everyday trying to get her to slow down. I sit and rock her when she is perfectly happy just to have her sit on my lap. Dress her up cute when we have no where to go. Ignore everything else going on in the house just to sit and watch her play. Hoping on this baby I will get it right and cherish all the moments. Even the ones that are hard. I love my babies. Why do they have to get big. 

Click on this to enlarge it and see how much she has grown.

The big kids always have to get in on the photo shoot. They are so good to Claire. Leah cuddled her to sleep tonight. It was so sweet. The girls are always willing to watch her when I need help. 

We do a lot of cruising around on the walker these days. She goes from one end of the house to the other over and over again. I can't get over the quick straight legged walk. It is too cute. She is cruising around holding on to stuff.

Claire has lots of new words this month. My personal favorite is uh - oh and sis for the girls. She also says; treat, cheese, eah (could be Leah or Eva), inki (binki), this, that, hello (every time I am on the phone). There are a lot of other sounds I can't quite decipher yet.

Loving the swing at Donner Lake. It was a little cold but she didn't seem to mind. 

Ratchford Kids Skiing

We always get asked why we moved up here.  Beyond Davy having a great job, we also wanted the chance to spend more time together as a family. Well, one of the perks of Davy's job at Northstar is that the kids ski each week.  Here is a video of them cruising about.  They are all skiing Black Diamonds now and Ronan has picked it up the quickest.  He ski's 2 days a week and his coach's all say the same thing..."he has no fear".  He is built for action sports.  Here he is leading his older sisters through a game of follow the leader.  He hits jumps as often as possible.  Come visit us...