Much to everyone’s amazement, the little Claire Bear took to camping like her namesake, rooting the bushes for tasty morsels and hibernating until well past seven in the morning — and she put down roots in the wilderness as if she’d been born there. The kid, her dad is pleased to announce, is [...]

Assisting dad with his Saturday morning coffee addiction by causing him to tip his long-anticipated morning brew all over the living room floor as he lunges to prevent you from grabbing it just moments before realizing that he could really use three hands in this parenting gig.
Baffling dad with your never ending chatter and babbling, [...]

Yesterday, Karin was rooting around in the girl’s mouth and discovered clear evidence of a lower incisor poking through soft gum. Yes, Claire is now officially teething. And she doesn’t seem too upset by the ordeal. Yet.
Good thing we’ve got a dental plan. (Whatever.)
I celebrated by having five yards of gravel dumped [...]

… scrunches her face with pursed lips while laughing through her nose at everything.
… uses her forehead to press the buttons on her toys.
… responds with shrieks of delight at the sight of outstretched arms ready to lift.
… grins a wide, toothless smile each time she sees me again.
… spits out food she doesn’t really [...]

seven… (the countdown to seven years!)
As requested, I spent some time this morning and sorted through the (relatively) small collection of photos (many still on a memory card) taken since Claire’s half birthday. The image below is both a sample and a link to one of the new albums that was created as home [...]

For those sipping on the few and far between bits of information that leak from random sources regarding the post-sixth month development of our daughter, there is likely to be some disappointment. Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat weak in blogging the mundane, and my presence on the usual social networks over the past month has [...]

My shutter finger was getting a little itchy. As I sit here on a Friday night looking for an excuse to blog, looking for an excuse to take and post more pictures, looking for justification to bid higher on some ebay photo gear, and looking for an excuse not to be sad about spending [...]

December 22
The girl is officially three months old today. I guess we’re keeping her. For the recap, she can do the following quirky things:

Day 22: So this is what a troublemaker looks like!

-> balance her watermelon of a head with excellent precision on her shoulders for up to five minutes.
-> track the monotonous pacing [...]