Dr. Clara

Greetings from Kentucky! We are settling into a nice little routine with our little man and big sister. There have been a few rough patches but it feels like things are settling down. This morning Miss Clara and I ventured out into the humidity to weed our vegetable garden. It's growing so well! She was actually quite interested and helpful when it came to raking and pulling the weeds between the rows of plants. She is so proud of and excited about her sunflowers; she wanted to take her picture by them.

Here's a recent pic of "Dr. Clara" giving Colton a check-up during tummy time the other day. A toy doctor kit is her new favorite toy. It's actually my old doctor set that I got as a present when Keri was born/for my 3rd birthday. Grandma cleaned it all up like new and now it's been passed off to the new big sister. She loves listening to our hearts, looking in our ears, checking our blood pressure, poking us with the syringe to give us medicine and checking our temperatures. And, naturally, Clara thinks Colton is the perfect little patient!

The OT in me needs to point out that this little man LOVES his tummy and can't get enough tummy time! If the medical world didn't have me so freaked out with the whole "back to sleep" thing I'd let this guy sleep on his stomach like most of us did as infants. He sleeps on our chests all the time on his belly and loves playing on his tummy on the floor. He's already lifting and turning his head from side to side and rolling to his side.

That's it for now. We are relaxing and enjoying our time together before Aaron goes back to work on June 14 and I'm sure we'll have more updates before then.