Outer Banks

This year was Claire's first trip to the Outer Banks for our annual Tremper vacation.

This was our set up. Sweet huh?

We brought snacks...

And a baby pool...

And cousins...

And Uncles... for babysitting of course.

Ham Bone.

Claire liked the ocean when Ema put her feet in it... and that was the only time she liked it.

Porch time with Daddy

Our beach house had a huge porch with lots of chairs where Claire and daddy frequented daily.
She loved sititng out there waving at people walking and running below.

She was oober happy when she got to sit by herself.

Z

Claire Jane has a few favorite people, and Zane is one of them. In fact, after mommy and daddy,
her third word was Zane.
She will look at him and say "Za-Za-Za-Zane"


She loves him so much. She crawled
right up and hugged him.

giving kisses and hugs..

"Look momma, I'm sitting with my Zaney"

And here you can tell, he loves her so much too. What a sweet boy.

Momma love

Not so sure about the water...
but of course when Ema did this with her, she loved it.

Us girls stick together...and rock the zebra.

Kite flying

We went to the beach at sunset to fly a kite, Claire just wanted to wave to it.

This is her 11th month trick, waving. She waves at everything.

This is blurry, but I had to post it, yet again we are waving.

Ema and Pa had surprises for the kids each night. The smallest things made them so happy.
We flew a kite and wore light sticks as the sun went down.

Matching girls

Ema and her matching outfits. I have to say, this is one of my favorites.
I love baby girls in animal print!

Wagon

Grammy gave Claire Jane a red wagon for her birthday.
I still cannot believe we will be celebrating her first birthday this month...

It is a new ritual each evening to take a ride in the wed wagon.

It is also a ritual to give mommy a kiss in the wed wagon.

It is daddy's ritual to drink a beer while pulling Claire in the wed wagon.

"Come on ma!"

New toys

Claire has found mommy's tupperware cabinet...

Fun Fun Fun

I don't mind cleaning this up because it is a lifesaver at dinner time!

Pool time

Lovin' the baby pool on the deck

Annnnnnd we're all done

Snack time

We had our first attempt at having a big girl snack on the floor in our new house.

Claire proceeded put all of her crackers in her mouth at once...

So much for giving a snack so mommy can get some things done. I ended up pulling all of the food out of her mouth
so she would stop gagging. We will attempt this again at a later date.

New Trick

We are pulling up on everything these days...scooting around on furniture and walls trying to get where we want to go.