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9 Months

Tuesday night was the first annual Art and Music Night at Centennial. They were featuring students' artwork and MSUM had their students there doing pottery, face painting, and caricatures. Centennial students could go to different booths for different activities like self portraits, photo ops, etc. So, Brynn and I walked over to check it out. The music students were performing at 7:00, but we figured we should head home at that time to get to our nightly routine of homework, piano practicing, etc. It was fun, though! 






Brynn's mask she made in art class.


Almost done with 1st grade already! :-( 


This child does not like to keep her socks on. She looks so proud of herself every time she pulls them off...which is every chance she gets. I set her down to play while I finished getting things packed up in the car the other morning, and came back to find her like this. Sneaky!



Clara is now nine months old! I can't hardly believe it. She had a good check-up yesterday and is very healthy. Little, but healthy. :-) She weights about 15.5 lbs which puts her in the 15th percentile compared to other babies her age. She is working on table food slowly, but surely. She isn't crawling yet, but pushes herself around. No toothies, just like big sister at this same age. Looks like we have another late teether. Her favorite trick is to clap. She is catching on to 'so big' also. 



There was a lot happening at Centennial this week, as this morning was Muffins for Moms. They had a little different set-up this year for the flow of getting your muffins and finding a spot to sit, and that seemed to go a lot smoother. The muffins were delicious and it was so fun to go and have breakfast with Brynn! She was pretty excited, of course.


Baby sister got to tag along and have a little bit of muffin, too.


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