Clara: Week 7

Clara loves her older sister this week. She's really becoming aware of us and socializing with the cutest coos, gurgles and smiles.

She loves her binky in the evening hours. I'm so grateful she'll take one! Otherwise the Shaw household would be a noisy one at night. Luckily she's not dependent on it to sleep, just to calm down when she's having her fussy times during the day.

Mackenzie is dressing up like a princess just about every day. Her favorite is Rapunzel and I finally fixed that dress. In the meantime, she's been favoring this Cinderella dress.

On Monday the 17th, I went to my friend Sarah's house to get my hair done. I wanted a change and really didn't want to chop it off. I loved going dark after Mackenzie so I thought I would give it a whirl again. Keith was against it at first but I was pretty determined to get it done. Poor Sarah, the coloring system had changed so we tried a new way of doing it and my hair went RED. So we stripped some color and put on a darker shade. Still red. At this point it had been 5 hours and Keith was home so he came over to pick up the girls. He was kind of shocked to see me hair so red and was pretty worried how I was going to look at the end of the night. After almost 8 hours, we got the look we were going for, albeit a couple shades darker than planned. It was shocking to see myself in the mirror those first few days but it's faded a bit and I really, really like it. Keith was pleasently surprised when I came home with brown hair instead of red and he's since admitted he was wrong:)

Mackenzie sometimes think Clara's just another doll to play with as you can see in this picture. All in all, it was a fun week with my last Drs. Appt that checked out good and two girls that got along pretty well.