Not much new to report this week

My whole family seems to either have the sniffles, a stuffy nose or a headache these days. Although the weather lately has been just beautiful, I think it does a number on us! We all kind of felt a little off today, so we stuck sort of close to the house. We did manage to make it out to have lunch together - a nice treat for us all since Chris just got back into town.

I have been busy trying to get my business stuff organized/updated for some fall shows. I am finding now with two children, it's difficult to find time to devote to it. I am looking forward to getting back in the swing of things, though!

Claire has been sort of a challenge this week. I have this theory that she waits until Chris leaves sometimes to turn on the attitude! You know, meltdowns about not getting her way and flat out refusal to do things she just doesn't want to do. Then today, with daddy back, it was a completely different story and such a great day. Funny, huh?

Ava is really a chatterbox now! I don't remember Claire babbling this much, but then again I don't remember much about anything these days! It's so cute and I just love that she wants so badly to be heard! She's a pretty happy baby lately, although I'm not sure we'll be able to tell it from the pictures that we had made on Tuesday. She would talk and talk and talk, but we couldn't get her to smile much at all - she was very serious about whatever she was telling us! She was also fascinated with her dress and kept wanting to pull it up and stick it in her mouth! I can't wait to see how they turn out. She is pretty close to rolling over, so we'll be keeping an eye out for that soon!