HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY CLAIRE!!! Momma is so proud of you and I love you more and more everyday! I can't wait for your "Paw-ty" this weekend!

First Birthday Eve!

Today is Claire's First Birthday Eve! Wow! One Year ago today my life was a little different...got up went to work, walked and walked and walked around, and prayed and prayed that she would come naturally and that I would not have to be induced...my prayers were answered in the wee hours (2:34 am) the next morning..."did I wet my pants", oh! no! it must be time...TIME, really! Nick, WAKE UP! My water broke! Really? Yes, Really!! It was raining that night and the barometeric pressure had dropped so I am convinced that helped along with all my walking! When I stopped blogging back in February I did save all my posts and I LOVED reading these! This little girl has filled our home with an unimaginable love, a contagious laugh, a ray of sunshine every morning, and is a constant reminder of how great our Lord is!

Monday, September 22, 2008
Waiting on Forever!
That is our new motto around our house...waiting on forever! Many of you are wondering what is going on now that the countdown has started...17 days until Baby Claire's due date. Will she come early? late? or on the 9th? In a perfect world she would come on the evening of her due date but we all know that we don't live in a perfect world. Nick is VERY ready for her to arrive while I am enjoying the little bit of sleep I can still get and just taking care of things that need to be done. The bags are packed and ready to go, her nursery is ready, and the "to do list before baby arrives" has pretty much everything marked off. So here we are waiting on forever... waiting to meet the little girl that will forever change us, waiting on our new life, waiting on our new reason to get up every morning, waiting for the smile that will brighten our day, waiting on laughter that will forever fill our home, waiting on a love that we have yet to experience, waiting on a new reason to thank God everyday.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
38 weeks
After another weekly visit it is safe to say that Baby Claire is perfectly content for now. (Yes, I do know that can change overnight) As the doctor put it yesterday, she is living in my rib cage...meaning she has not dropped. There is also no progress in the dilation department. Good news is that she appears to be head down. Most friends I have that are expecting right now seem disappointed with the "no progress" appointments but in my mind she still has 2 weeks to live in her cozy environment. I really want her to come when she is ready...not rushing to be induced...although it might end up that way if she thinks she is going to set up a permanent residence. Who knows??? This weekend should keep us pretty busy. Nick is going to be pretty brave and take me and my 34 weeks pregnant bestie, Amanda, to Bikes, Blues, and BBQ on Saturday. Eat some funnel cakes, enjoy the nice weather, watch the Hog game, listen to some great music....and just continue to wait..... on little miss forever to arrive.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Still waiting...
Little Miss Claire Carter is still perfectly cozy! I will have to admit I am getting a little anxious at this point. I was sure that some progress had started but I was completely wrong. She has dropped a little bit but not as much as she needs to. So, we go back to the doctor next wednesday for another check-up. If she does not come between now and then, (out of nowhere) then we will start talking about inducing. Hopefully, she will be a true surprise and just come on her own!!!
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Miss Claire Carter Wade has made us the proudest parents. We thank you all for the phone calls and your prayers. After 18 hours of well worth it labor she made our little family complete on October 7, 2008 at 8:24pm, weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces and 20 inches long. We are truly BLESSED and God is truly AMAZING!
Nick and Aunt Emily were the most amazing coaches and I could not have done it without them! Thank you for helping bring our little girl into the world!

One Year Pictures!

We love our One Year pictures!!! Thank you Mitzi!!!

What a week....

Last Friday Claire and I headed to Arkadelphia...if you can't tell we are "go-bots", always going somewhere. We worked around the Nana and Pepaw's house preparing for Claire first birthday party and went to Little Rock Sunday for Grannie and Grandpa's anniversary party. In the middle of all this Claire ends up with the biggest bug bite on her arm (quarter size), has an allergic reaction to eggs...we think, (the doctor said to feed her another egg and see if she reacts again!!! holding off a few days....sounds like so much fun!)and we are now having a "sick day" because we have a slight fever and a runny nose...and the doctor can't see us until tomorrow! So, my little baby that has only been sick two days in the last 358 days has had a pretty ruff couple of days!

On a positive note, today is the beginning of Claire's Birthday Week...one week from today she will be a one year old!!! Wow...pretty surreal! Funny thing happened earlier...I was unloading the dishwasher and turned to put up a few cups and turned back to the dishwasher and Claire was standing on the door holding onto the top rack, had pulled out a cup and was trying to drink from it! I got a quick pic on my camera but not sure how to put it on the computer...it made me laugh so hard!!

Milestone Alert: I would say that Claire is officially walking as of yesterday....yes, she still crawls too but she is able to walk around the living room all by herself!!! We played a little game with her...Pepaw (or ta-tall as Claire says) would sit on one side of the room and Nana and me on the other and she would walk back and forth...not real complicated but she loved it and made her feel pretty confident in herself.

Better go check on my sweet baby!!

Happy 67th Anniversary!

My Grannie and Grandpa Penick are celebrating their 67th Wedding Anniversary today!! The family gathered this past weekend to celebrate this monumental occasion. It is a house full with everyone together...4 kids, 10 grandkids, 11 (#12 on the way) great-grandkids...all because two people fell in love...we are so BLESSED!

Girls Weekend

So I loaded The Girls Weekend pictures in reverse order....oh well!

Claire and I made our way to Little Rock a couple weekends ago. Aunt Emmie came down from NWA and we had a wonderful girls weekend with her, Aunt Liz and Gramie. We shopped all day Saturday, had lunch at one of my all-time favorites "Purple Cow", had a nice visit with Grannie and Grandpa (Claire's great-grandparents), watched a few minutes of the Hog game and even hosted a baby shower for one of my childhood besties! We can't wait to meet Baby Bennett! Claire loves her QT with her Auntie's and her Gramie!! We love you!!

Old McDonald

Old McDonald had a farm e i e i o....and Claire loved it! There was a slight drizzle of rain, and mud knee deep because it had been raining for days but there was no way we could miss taking Miss Claire to her First County Fair!! She loved the petting zoo....especially the little black pig! How cute! I don't know what it is about the fair but I have always loved it and I am so excited about starting a new annual fair trip with my Claire!

Claire being silly before school one morning...she looks like she is retro dancing!

Learning to eat our table food, its a new adventure every night!