Growing up too fast

I can’t believe Jane is almost 9 months old and Claire will be three the end of June, where does the time go?  Jane is very attached to me right now.  I have permanent wrinkles on the skin of my left forearm from holding her so much.  But I guess I should cherish the fact that she wants to be with me all the time, before I know it she will be a teenager and won’t want anything to do with me.

Yesterday I took this snapshot of Jane.  She hasn’t totally mastered crawling yet, but she has decided to start climbing up things (are we going to have to take another child to the ER with knocked out teeth??).

Jake started building a white picket fence the end of last summer.  The whole reason we decided to build it was to keep Claire contained in the backyard (that girl can run fast if she wants to!).  He started building it with his dad and mom when they came  the beginning of August after Jane was born.  Needless to say, with a newborn and other things going on, we didn’t complete it before winter hit.  The other night as Jake was literally attaching the last of the pickets to complete the fence, Claire reached her hand through the pickets on the gate, unlatched it, and escaped!  Aren’t we glad we spent all that money and time to finish this fence and now we are just moving back to Utah?  Our precious little Claire….

So innocent looking too!

My cute girls

We are all so excited that the weather has warmed up, it makes such a difference to get outside! Claire picked out a swimsuit online and it came in the mail the other day. She had to wear it the rest of the day, even though it was still cold.

That same day, I took a picture of Jane, who looks like Ralphy on the Christmas Story (swimsuits and snowsuits on the same day!).

Jane is growing up so fast. She is crawling around a little (a combo of army crawling and up on her knees), is getting her second tooth, and is sitting up better.