Claire Walks!!!

Mark the day - August 6, 2007. Two days into her 11-month birthday, Claire Brown takes her very first steps! Mommy, Daddy, and Grandma were all on hand to watch Claire take 4 steps, from an end table into Mommy's arms.

Video now available! See the slideshow (or use link to August photos, above left).

Claire has a tooth!

This has been the pattern over the last couple days:

6:30pm -- Claire goes to bed

7:30 pm -- Claire awake!

12:00 am -- Claire awake!
4:35 am -- Claire awake!

Why oh why, lord? Well, this morning Morgan discovered the reason why. Claire's first tooth! It will be on the bottom of her mouth. We tried to get a picture of the tooth but she's very protective.

Today was also Claire's first bike ride! She enjoyed it very much as you can see from the picture below:

Check out the link for July photos for more.

Claire in California

The big move has finally happened. With the help of Pat, we settled into 839 Sevely Dr. There is a great park across the street. Pictures of us in our new home and at the park are in the June 2007 pictures (link above left).

We also made our first trip to Yosemite, where we stayed with Uncle Rob and Aunt Rachel.

Claire did several hikes. Grandpa Lewis was the mule, Grandma Fen was, as always, the teacher.

1) Base of Yosemite falls
2) Happy Isles
3) Mirror Lake
4) First lookout of Vernal Falls

We also really enjoyed going to Cathedral Beach, where Claire loved to play with the rocks; and Discovery Overlook, where Claire did her first granite slab hiking. Pictures are in the June 2007 pictures. Enjoy!

Claire Crawls!!!

A weekend with daddy has motivated Claire to learn how to Crawl.

Witness the magic!!! (link above left).

Claire video in May

In the link for May 2007 photos (above left), there are some really cute videos of Claire, including one of her playing with Lefty using a feather. She is really growing fast -- she can stand unassisted for a couple seconds at a time.

Both grandmas should be getting some Claire time in June, which will be great for everyone and we're looking forward to that.

We've got Claire's housing set in California. Here's the new place:


The address is:
839 Sevely Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94041

I will head out to California on Saturday for an interview at the library. I will also do my first California hike in three years! Can't wait. Morgan will be alone with Claire!

Side by side comparison

A Shared Site - Download Picasa

We've made a change to Picasa from Adobe Picture Gallery. You can order prints from Picasa, and you can also post and view movies for free (versus for $$$ on Kodak).

At Bob's suggestion, the blog is set up so that we can all post pictures to it through Picasa. I will put a tutorial up on how exactly to do that. (see below)

How to Upload your pictures to this site

Step 1: Download Picasa to your computer (If the link doesn't work, google search: Picasa). Remember to use the gmail email account clairedepot@gmail.com and the password that I sent you by email.

Picasa will then look through your computer for all your photos. We'll do the upload to the web in the next step.

Steps 2+: to come!