Bright Days

One thing I love about Arizona is that it is sunny like 98% of the time! It's just a perpetually happy place. We don't have a daylight savings time change which I also love. However, the sun does change when it rises and sets. The natural flow of the earth! WELL...STOP IT SUN! Mr. Sun is not my friend at 5:30 in the morning when Claire thinks it's time to rise and shine! I can hear her on the monitor making her noises just waiting for Mommy or Daddy to come see her. I am not a morning person I have learned. When the "alarm" goes off it's time to put on the Mom hat and it doesn't come off until you go to bed the next night so sometimes you just want to lay in bed for 5 more minutes. I must say though, she is always happy and smiling ear to ear when I come get her. Who else greets me this way? I love it! She is so excited that one of us has come to pick her up. We are stumbling around the house in a morning fog and she is the Energizer Bunny! She always wakes up on the right side of the crib!

Claire has all kinds of noises to express her happy side. Getting her to actually giggle is a tough act though. She only does it when she's laying on her back and we are doing something funny to her. Blowing kisses on her feet or singing her Grandma's favorite "Shake Your Booty" while shaking her legs. Yesterday I was reading "The Hungry Little Caterpillar" to her while she sat in my lap. The last page of the book she just went into a full blown giggle session. I just kept reading it over and over and she kept laughing hysterically. Neither Eric or I had ever heard this kind of laughter from Claire. We caught some on video it was so good! It was just a small taste of her personality coming through. It was pure heaven! We all laughed until it hurt! Laughter IS the best medicine. Just thinking about that moment makes me laugh. Saturday nights have never been so good!!