Claudia is an excellent reader.

Where do Claudia's hands go? In her mouth at this point!

She has been a very good girl lately. She is growing like crazy. She went to a birthday party on Sunday and now she is waiting for her friends to come over so she can talk about authentic cadences and minor modalities. Claudia is studying very advanced theory when ever she stops eating her hands.

She is sleeping, in general, very well. Usually from about 8pm until 3-5am. She is usually up all day unless she goes for a drive. She wants to say a special hello to Aunt Susannah and Aunt Judith today!!

Well it sure was a busy week last week. We had a lovely visit from my friend Jordan and her mother Lisa. Then I got to go to mommy's favorite restaurant JK's with Aunt Tootie & KA. Then to top it all off I got to see all of my cousin's on Sunday evening - Boy they sure are alot of fun. I had a blast telling Raggedy Ann all about it! :)

Claudia has new friends!

Finally outside.

Claudia has had a busy week. She had a very fun party at school where all of the teachers and staff came. They gave Claudia very nice gifts including a DHS XC jacket and a DHS music sweatshirt.

On Friday Claudia attended Leslie Tolles' wedding. She was a very good girls, of course.

Tonight Judy and Stuart were here for dinner and had fun seeing grandma Schneider. Claudia enjoyed hearing all of Uncle Stuarts stories. They make quite a team.

Claudia weighs almost 12 pounds now, which means she has grown almost 50% in 9 weeks. She is starting to reach for things and play with some toys a bit. She also seems to be vocalizing a bit more.

However, she has a bit of a stiff neck so she is going to a bit of theerapy for it. The therapist asked Kasey to bring a toy so Claudia would be enticed to look at it from both sides. The therapist laughed because Kasey brought a book ("with lots of colors" she said). The therapist said Claudia must be a child of teachers.

Monday is my knee surgery and that should go fairly smoothly, I hope. Lots of things at school right now so it will be nice to be healthy

Tomorrow Stacy visits from Pennsylvania to see Claudia. And Villanova plays Syracuse. Kasey and Stacy went to Villanova, and I have a degree from Syracuse. I think Syracuse has won at least one title in the past twenty years.