I'm Only 4 Days Behind...

We went to the beach last weekend! This was Claire's first beach trip (or as us Oregonians put "first coast trip" :)). It was our friend Lacey's birthday and they borrowed a friend of theirs beach house for the weekend. Now this was no ordinary beach house; it was huge and gorgeous, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and as Dan (Lacey's husband) put it "this is the nicest house I've ever been in." So we stayed 2 nights and had an absolute blast. We stayed up till who knows what time on Friday & Saturday night playing all sorts of fun board games with Dan & Lacey and Roman & Jen. Then on Saturday the rest of the crew joined us (their were 14 total including 2 wee ones). We went up to the Yaquina lighthouse and we actually got to walk all the way to the top, it was super cool. Then we walked down roughly a billion steps (or at least it seemed like that many with Claire strapped to me) and then down a slippery hill of rocks, to the tidepools. There was all sorts of little, gross-looking-but-still-pretty-cool-looking sea creatures all over the rocks. And then tragedy struck. I watched as if it were in slow motion. Levi and his little chicken ankles fell on a mossy rock, while our camera (not even a year old) clinked like a pinball against a couple rocks then into the water. Levi tried getting it to turn on but no such luck. Wew haven't yet decided what to do about that issue. So after that we went to lunch at good ole Mo's; mmm, that is some delicious clam chowder! We hung out for a little while and then everyone took off for the real beach (instead of the fake rocky one) but Claire had just gone down for a nap. Good food, good friends, and good laughs makes for one awesome weekend!

On Sunday we stoped by my Grandma Betty's house in Siletz. It was so great to see her, it had been too long! Claire was so cute and just hugging and loving on her. And Grandma was making her giggle up a storm. I was so glad she was in such a great mood after such a long weekend. We also got to see my uncle and cousins; it was fantastic! I wish I got to see that side of the family more often. We're just too spread out!

So the reason I am just now posting this is because Claire & myself have been super sick. Friday night I thought I was having bad allergies. The Saturday morning I was feeling a little icky but still thinking it was allergies. By Saturday night I knew it wasn't allergies, Levi got me some cold medicine. Levi stayed home Monday to take care of us. Just this last day or 2 I've been feeling better but I'm still pretty stuffed up. When I bend over my face feels like it's going to explode but hopefully I'll be completely over it soon. And poor Baby Claire; she had her first fever! It got up to 102, but somehow she was still in a pretty decent mood. And I secretly loved it because she was so snuggly, usually she's too busy to be snuggly. The fever was gone within about 24 hours, thank you prayers and tylenol!

After more than a week of Claire spitting out the rice cereal I decided to move onto something else. So I mashed up some yams for her last night. She didn't seem to love them but she wasn't spitting them everywhere like with the rice cereal so I'm taking that as a good sign. I made a pretty big batch and put the leftovers in an ice cube tray and froze them. And today I got her to eat one whole cube's worth of yams, so we are making progress!

As I was typing this Levi tried turning on the camera and it works! Wow we just got super lucky! He said "awesome now we can buy a new TV instead of having to buy a new camera" uhh yeah right. I love the last picture, it looks like Lacey and Claire are going to eat each other.