Miss Independent

Clara continues to develop into an extremely independent little girl. She has mastered the use of the words stop, no, and go ‘way as well as the proper use of the hands to make a “stop” motion with one or both hands.

She doesn’t mean anything personal by it… she still loves you, even when she tells you to go away. J

And it’s all worth it to see her face when she says “I did it!”

Clara loves cake!

What a weekend!

Saturday was Devlin's 12th birthday party! What a blast.


This year was the 1st year I've ever attempted to bake a cake for the kids. I made two cakes (one yellow, one chocolate) and decorated them to look like a motoX "jump" complete with take-off ramp and landing ramp spread across the two cakes. We hung a motorcycle toy with rider in between the two cakes doing a "superman" trick across the jump.


We had about 20 kids there and lots of friends and family. We all had a great time and were very, very wiped out by the end of the evening.


Clara also took her first step on Saturday. She had her entire support crew present and encouraging every twitch of her leg ;)