One Month

Claire is exactly one month old today... As I think about it, before she was born I never thought of a single month as being a big deal, because they really never were. Days, weeks, and months fly by, they turn into years and we all sit back and wonder where the time went.  Claire has given us a healthy dose of perspective, it's hard to believe she has been with us a month already... This last month has been the most rewarding, challenging, fun, confusing, worry filled, exhausting, eye opening, and most importantly, loving month of our lives.  We have seen a love and care far beyond anything we ever knew existed.  So we thank God for giving us Claire, and  thank Claire for showing us all of these wonderful and exciting things, and making days and months a heck of a lot more meaningful and exciting... pretty amazing that she does it without even knowing it!

This picture was taken before we put her in the car for her first big outing, we took her to see the Anderson and McPhail clans in Novi.  So, first big outing, dad driving, mom and Claire rolling cab-style in the backseat. Dad decides to drive through a yellow light turning left and gets pulled over. Great start. Thankfully the cop was nice, and I was able to use Claire as a little leverage stating "I have a newborn in the backseat, I didn't want to slam on the breaks" so the cop let us go with a warning... Claire has officially gotten her dad out of a ticket, thanks Claire!

She has those darn McGuire feet, you'll be able to drive a truck between those toes before we know it!! She definitely has her mom's long legs!!

Hangin' with mommy after a bath...