our family story: mis-placed teddy

In all of the chaos of purging, organizing, and packing for the move I have identified 2 things that were mis-placed (or at least not with the rest of the things one would logically think they should be with). Since identifying the missing objects, one has since been found - Claire's teddy bear (that Dad & Adi picked out before she was born). The other object remains at large, so until then Adi won't be able to check out books from the library with her official card.
Why share such a random, and seemingly unimportant detail? Well - there are probably 2 reasons:
1. I pride myself on my organizational skills and logic in such processes
2. I recently wanted to take Claire's 4 month photo and realized I could not find her teddy bear for size comparison - so this month, we went without.

As you can see - Claire is a VERY happy baby. Well, she's really either VERY happy or VERY upset - not much in between. We had her 4 month Dr. visit and all looks well. Claire is starting to level off on her massive growth spurts to date - a result of what the Dr. believes are her "genetics kicking in". Even though her step changes in growth aren't as significant - she is still towards the mid to top of the charts (which is still new for us compared to Big Sis).

Height: 25" (50-75%)

Weight: 13 lbs 7 oz (~50%)

Both girls are definitely keeping us busy these days - as the summer days seem to have pushed bedtime a little later than we're used to. It's been fun watching Claire spend more time on her tummy and/or propped up in the exersaucer playing. She is still absolutley fascinated with whatever big sister, Adi is doing or saying and I just LOVE watching them 'play' together on their own as I try not to ruin the moment while observing.

Claire is becoming much more of a chatterbox already (probably taking after her sister) and still definitely loves being held more than not. She has also become somewhat of an expert in rolling (at least back to front) - so the days of leisurely diaper changes are over.

Here's a little peek at the past couple of weeks...

With less than a week in our new home, we experienced some pretty crazy weather and lost power.

Thursday night, some storms rolled through the metro and we lost power until Friday around noon (we also had one tree fall down and another tip over). Friday night another wave of storms came through and we lost power again - this time, until Sunday evening. There were a LOT of people without power throughout the metro and thankfully we weren't among the group that didn't get theirs back until Wednesday of that week! While it wasn't ideal - and definitely was a little sticky - we managed through pretty well, enjoying our time outside and without technology at our fingertips. While it was kind of nice, I am definitely not sad to have some of those amenities back!