Updates!

Wow!  Again, it has been a while since I've posted.  I have been a packing fool lately.  Two weeks until I leave for Georgia!!  Trying to pack, yet trying to make sure there is enough in the house to live is even more difficult than actually packing everything at once!  There are still toys EVERYWHERE in the living room, and there are still LOTS of empty boxes in the garage.  This move is so bittersweet!  I'm hoping to be able to take some pictures of post before I leave so I have something to remember.  I think Sookie knows that something is up... she is even more clingy to me than usual!

My living room...

A box that is about as tall as me!!

 
Caleb is usually working half days at work.  Then he will leave work and run errands around post to be able to turn in his paperwork... NEXT WEEK!!!  It has been nice for me to be able to get out of the house and run errands by myself since he has been home quite a bit in the afternoons! 

In other news, I went to the doctor yesterday about my hives, shoulder pain, and wrist pain.  If you remember, I got hives twice back in March, but I have been good since.  The doctor wasn't too worried about them, and he said we will probably never know why I got them.  My shoulder has been hurting since Clara was a few months old.  I would hold her with my left arm, and it just really took a toll on my shoulder.  I am getting an MRI on that on Friday morning.  Since my left shoulder was hurting, I started holding Clara with my right arm.  This started hurting my wrist.  The doctor wants to get me a brace to wear on that, but that referral hasn't gone through yet.  Caleb still wants to trade me in for a new model since that is what you do for a phone or a car if it starts falling apart!

Clara is becoming more of a little kid and less of a baby.  She does a lot more walking now.  She is also getting some top teeth.  (I think that that is the reason for her snotty nose and cough since she has had that for a while.)  The only problem with that is that her teeth make it hurt while I breastfeed her.  She has been starting to pick things up and hand them to me.  It is very cute, but it makes her even more like a big kid!  She also has been really clingy to me lately, too.  If I'm holding her and need to put her down (for a diaper change, nap, or bedtime especially) she will literally cling to me.  It is really nice sometimes because it's like she is hugging me.  Other times, though, I really do need to change her diaper!!  She will be a year old in less than two weeks!!  Craziness!!! 

Look at those big kid jeans!!

I LOVE that she's so curious about everything!