Growing a Little Schulze

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Jeff's 32nd birthday

We celebrated Jeff's 32nd birthday with a few gifts, a visit to a local science museum, and pizza and cake with our families. We had pizza at Aurelio's, which is originally a Chicago pizza chain that Jeff and his family used to frequent before they moved down here. Some local folks recently opened a branch down here in Georgia. All the Schulzes were thrilled!

Claire helps open presents

New watch!

Watching quarters go 'round at the museum

Time for cake!

Claire is a big fan!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

March 2013

Zoo:
We took our little munchkin to the zoo on a beautiful March day. It was a good day for seeing all the animals out and about.

Elephants! (And you can hardly even tell I'm pregnant here!)

Look at those wild animals!

Checking out the gorillas, Mommy's favorite!

Up close with the tiger

Hail

Jeff, Claire, and I drove down to my parents one day for dinner with some family members and Claire and I decided to spend the night while Jeff headed in to work. Just our luck that mother nature decided to gift the area with a severe storm and giant hail! Golf ball sized and up! My mom measured one at 3 inches wide. And of course it tore up Jeff's mechanical baby, a.k.a. his car. Busted windshield and dents all over the body. A few thousand dollars worth of work fixed it up good as new. Thank goodness for insurance!

Hail covering my parents' yard

Hail next to my hand

One piece of hail in Jeff's hand

Misc photos - A random selection of Claire photos from March 2013

Doesn't everyone wear mom's underwear over PJ's?

Posing' with her new "pack-pack"

Big stick

Little angel

Practicing sneaking out of the house

Trying to eat while still hanging on to her balloon

Our spring flower :)

Mmmm, pasta!

Cookin' Dada's birthday cake

Daddy just barely fits

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Claire's first haircut

Claire's hair is finally growing!!

And it grew enough to warrant a haircut. The front was hanging in her eyes and the back was getting long enough to start to resemble a mullet. So on March 7th, I took her a local kids cut place, figuring they were used to uncooperative, screaming kids if things went bad. And I thought it might.

I was correct. Claire hated getting her haircut! She screamed through the whole thing. Didn't even want to sit in the airplane chair. Not even the bribe of TV and a lollipop appeased her. But we soldiered on, with me holding her head still at times so the stylist could cut it.

Before

During (a rare calm moment)

The trauma is over!

Looking good!

The after (bow in her hair pulling back the side)

To take her mind off the trauma, we visited the new cupcake shop conveniently located next door. :)

Repeat Ultrasound

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Baby girl's big ultrasound revealed a cyst in her brain that they doctor's office wanted another look at. So I went in for another look on March 29th. And it was good news!

The cyst has completely resolved and the ultrasound tech couldn't find any evidence of it at all. Also, all the blood work I had done weeks earlier came back good, indicating low risk for the issues they screened for. So all seems to be well with baby girl, as far as we can tell.

And I got a few more pictures!

Baby girl's profile at 23 weeks

Baby girl's face, 23 weeks

That bottom picture is looking at her head on, so to speak. So you can see her large forehead (the drak area on the right), moving left down to her nose and eye sockets and then to her little cheeks and chin. It's not as clear here, but on the monitor during the ultrasound I noticed a pretty pointy chin. So this one may have the Schulze chin!

Friday, April 19, 2013

Claire is 2!

We had Claire's party the day before her actual birthday. So we did a few things to make the actual day a little special. Most of the day was filled with church and Mommy and Daddy buying new furniture while Claire napped. (Aunt Jamie was staying with us at the time, so she was around to babysit). But Claire did get to try out some gifts from her party, go to the playground, and go out for special birthday aw cweam! (That's ice cream to those of you who don't speak Claire-ese).

Trying out her apron and glubs from John and Jess. Ready for cookin'!

Play time!

She loves the swings!

Mmm, ice cream!

Birthday girl and her mama

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Claire's 2nd Birthday Party!

Since Claire's birthday is near my mom's and my oldest niece Kiersten, we had a birthday extravaganza. A Disney birthday extravaganza to be precise! We combined Kiersten's love of princesses with Claire's love for Mickey Mouse and threw in a fairy grandmother for good measure.