A Request

Well - now that I am a stay at home mom (for now) and I have an infant that pretty much eats, sleeps and poops, I have a lot of time on my hands to do...well...nothing. When my mom was here we de junked my entire house so I cant even spring clean...not that I am complaining. I dont think I would have done it without my mom here. However, I paint ceramics, go for walks, read books, watch trashy television and most importantly, blog stalk. But, a lot of times people only update their blogs once weekly. What am I supposed to read for the rest of the week. And so now, my request. Blog more often people! Please. I need something to do!!
Thank you :)

newborn portraits

We had some newborn portraits taken last Friday. Here are just a few samples. I dont have the whole disc yet otherwise there would be a lot more :) Claire and her Daddy
She's not too happy in this picture but I still think she looks cute

This one is my favorite. My coworker found a sample of it for me and we copied it. I love it.

Cute Claire

Sorry for the overlaod of pictures. There is a good chance that we already have 200 photos of Claire and she is not even 2 weeks old. Can you tell we are new parents? This is Claire the cocoon. Being wrapped up is one of her favorite things :)
I dont know how she is tired. All she does is sleep. Except at night :)

Claire and Grampa K. Im pretty sure his priorities changed when he met Claire. It used to be #1 - wife, #2 - daughter, but my mom and I got bumped to #2 and #3 when Claire was born :)

This is one of the first times we captured Claire smiling. Im pretty sure she just tooted but she sure looks cute when she does :)

Baby Claire meets Grama and Grampa Klassen

Grama and Grampa Klassen got to spend the weekend with Claire this past weekend. It was so fun for her. I can tell - we can read each others minds. I wish. We just hung out since it was a little cold and we didnt want to get Baby Claire sick but we did have a chance to take some pictures. A family picture on the front step of our house.
Baby Claire meeting Grampa for the first time in her special bib!

Grampa and Grama K and Baby Claire

Grama meeting Baby Claire in the hospital.

Baby Crowther has arrived!!

For those of you who dont know, our darling baby girl arrived early Saturday morning - 6:32am to be exact. She weighed 8lbs 3 oz and was 20 inches long. She has long dark brown hair and chubby cheeks just like her momma. She wasnt due until April 5 so she was over a week early...and yes...still 8lbs 3 oz. I really think that her cheeks are 1 lb each though because she is really skinny every where else. I went into labor I think sometime in the middle of the night on Thursday (just the early signs) but by Friday evening I was miserable. We went into the hospital at about 1001pm. They monitered me for an hour to make sure I was dilating. From 1010 to 1110 I went from a 2 to a 4. They gave me the epidural about about midnight and from then til 4am I went from a 4 to a 10. I pushed for 2 1/2 hours and then baby Claire Marie Crowther was there. It was a very surreal experience but we love her to pieces and cant wait to raise her. I apologize for my future posts...they will all be Baby Claire but she is by far the cutest member of our family :)

Dont laugh...I was mid contraction in this picture and EXTREMELY miserable but we needed a last time prego shot for Claire's reference when she is old enough.

We tried to get a picture of how long her hair is in this picture. She is so cute :) I know...Im totally biased :)

Excuse my hair....it was a LONG night.