What a Week!

This past week was a busy busy week for Clarita. It started out with Easter which was an all day event. Monday was calmer, but Clara got a visit from ALL of her grandparents. She loved snuggling with them all!

On Tuesday, Clara went to HMC to meet all of her daddy's co-workers. I don't have any pictures because she slept through the entire event including her first business meeting. She is always on her best behavior when she meets new people (this means sleeping). After HMC, Clara took her first trip to the grocery store. She slept through that too and only woke up when her Abuelita came over for a visit. When Kevin got home from work we went on our first family run. Kevin pushed the running stroller and Clara stayed awake the entire time! Since it was my first post-pregnancy run, I only ran a little over two miles. Kevin continued on while I pushed Clara home. It was a busy day for the little snugglepuff!

Clara's first trip to the grocery store

Wednesday was Clara's first book club! She slept through most of the eating (until I wanted to eat of course) and then snuggled with different people until she decided that she was hungry and upset. Of course this happened during the discussion and she screamed and had to be taken out of the room. Luckily she wasn't too difficult to calm down and was able to finish the discussion. She had a lot of opinions on the book too!

With FGA Lisa at book club

Thursday was my Grandma's (GG) 91st birthday! My Dad and Peggy picked up the GGs and brought them to Parkinson Place for lunch. My grandparents do not go out very often so this was a huge treat for Clara. We had a great visit and my grandparents really enjoyed spending the morning with their great granddaughter. Clara is lucky to have one set of great grandparents to spoil her. Clara also had her two week doctor visit on Thursday. She did great and now weighs seven pounds eight ounces! That is a gain of seven ounces from her birth weight and twelve ounces in the past ten days! Her new pediatrician is super nice and was very personable and helpful. I think we choose a good one! She said that since Clara has gained so much weight she can go five hours at night (if she sleeps that long) before a feeding. She usually sleeps between four to five hours so it will be nice not to have to wake her up to feed. Clarita's umbilical stump fell off last week, but she still had a tiny bit left and it was still a little oozy under that. Her pediatrician said that it is normal and put silver nitrate on it to seal off the oozy part. Once that is all gone we can give her a real bath!

With her "GGs"

Happy 91st birthday!

Friday Daddy had part one of Tio Russell's bachelor party so Tia Laurie came over to hang out with Clara and I. We had breakfast for dinner (Clara's request) and watched a movie. Clara slept most of the time which meant that she stayed up until midnight...not the best idea as she still woke up at the same times which made a tired mommy.

Saturday was part two of Tio Russell's bachelor party so Daddy was gone all day. It was also "Laurie's Lady Day" hosted by Chelsea and Ashley as a mini bachelorette party. That meant that Clara got to attend her first bachelorette party! She had an upset tummy all morning and didn't want to eat much. As soon as I strapped her in her car seat, she started spitting up everywhere and it even came out of her nose. Needless to say that wasn't so fun and I then had to take her out and clean her up. We were already late picking up Tia Laurie so Clarita arrived at the bachelorette party in just a diaper and a blanket! She slept most of the afternoon and got lots of snuggles from the ladies. She didn't really want to eat, just sleep, sleep, sleep. Clara did participate in some of the bachelorette party activities like the bridal relay. She also had her first play date with Connor and slept through most of that too!

Allison and Clara playing games

Connor rocking his party hat

Team One

Team Two (Clara's sleeping)