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Clara's four month old now!! This has been such a crazy time of development. She looks so different. All plump. She can almost hold a bottle by herself. She can make raspberry noises like nobody's business. And oh boy does she spit up! We've entered 24/7 bib wearing at this point. I was hoping it wouldn' t come to that. But when I started having to change her clothes 3+ times a day I decided enough was enough. Now there are just multiple bib changes per day!

She gets along sooo good with her nanny, Cory. Clara smiles really big as soon as she sees Cory and even starts jumping in my arms. I'm not sure she even gets that excited for me!

Clara loves sleeping on her side right now. She can't quite get into position by herself though. She is just transitioning into sleeping in her crib and will start out the night on her back but when she wakes up about 6 hours later she is trying so hard to roll onto her side. A push of her legs to get them into position and she'll fall back asleep. She's pretty much sleeping through the night now (8pm-7am). Some nights I haul her into bed with me somewhere between 4:30am and 6am, but some nights she sleeps the whole time. Often, I have to wake her up at 7am. Soo awesome to wake up to her cute baby smiles.

She went to her first concert a couple nights ago...Violent Femmes played at the zoo. And a gang of us packed a picnic dinner and went for the evening.

We've had lots of family visits this past month, too. Grandma & Grandpa Boltman came with Great-Grandpa Swartz (who passed away just two weeks later), then Aunt Jenny, Uncle Keith & cousin Ben, and then Aunt Julie and cousin Katie came, too. Katie had sooo many hugs for Clara. Clara wasn't too sure she liked it at first. But we headed to Michigan a week later and she got lots more hugs from Katie and seemed to like them just fine at that point!

Aaah, Michigan...Clara and I flew to Michigan without Jeff. It was scary for me, but Clara was a star as usual and didn't fuss. I don't know why I was worried. She is such a great baby. We got lots of great bonding time since it was just the two of us...well the rest of the family helped out a bit. But I changed more than my share of diapers that week!

Speaking of diapers, Clara is smiling as she fills hers right now!