month already

Ok so its been over a month with out any form of update whats so ever.

Daryl's been a bit busy with the yearly painting competition down in the Bay area, but with that over with he does have a bit of time between 9:49 and whenever i finish this (Multitasker he is not)

Easter has come and gone and along with it the rain clouds ....or not. with a small tornado ( i say small as im not sure they could even class it) touching down around woodland it seems winter and the foul rainy weather is going to screw up any and all weekends for a while longer. Week days however taunt us with 80 degree weather and sunny to slightly cloudy sky's.

The Goodman's have been doing well with Kristin coming very close to her due date and finally she seems to have gotten her appetite back. Have being mostly sick for the last 5-6 months.

Claire is happy with the recent renovations of the house. Daryl moved the treadmill from Claire's room to the office and moved his corner desk out to ...someone else's house. (we put it in the bermuda triangle and it disappeared) The office is getting clean enough that Claire might be allowed into it not. haha. Oh the whole reason for the move is that Claire has her own toddler bed. Its a ....tinkerbell one that will eventually have a canopy overhead. We made a small transition from the crib to the bed to make sure Claire was used to it and low and behold she loved the thing. Even now she'll crawl into it grabbing a book before hand to rifle through.

As of now the Goodman's are in full mode to prep for Claire's upcoming 2nd birthday. This Birthday comes with a fully stocked snow cone machine (which we might not need as the way things are going it'll be snowing by next week) and a princess bounce house. WOOT WOOT!.

We have plans on making this hopefully pretty fun and even have Nolan and Tracy coming up for it. (we hope)

ok enough chatter on with the pictures.

again they show up at random even when i take the time to try and organize it.

click on any of them to enlarge

Claire likes any hat daddy wears

Claire and her fluffy socks

New shades which got broken like 10 minutes later which then in turn got fixed a couple of hours later.

Graduation party

PPPHHhftftftft!!

The new bed in the old posistion

Claire operating heavy machinery

Easter and its eggs

Mommy and Claire hopping to get their picture taken.(i know i know cheese)

2 videos one to show the crazy easter people and the other to show just how we love softly padded things. they seem to have degraded the video quality which kind of sucks. but here yah go

9months

ok so to say i have forgotten about the blog would be incorrect. i just havent remembered what i should do with it.

Between the grand news of another GIRL!! (WOOT WOOT checking Army of awesome off our bucketlist.) and the couple of commission works that Daryl seems to love to punish himself to do. The Goodman's just havent made time for much else. Selfish?!? absolutely!

Loads of things have happened and as before i plan to explain later.

soooo on with the pictures and maybe a video or two

oh and no particular order

at 1st i thought the pictures themselves would be enough, but i think some explanations are in order.

Burrito Claire night

Claire checks the pantry

Gansta Cla-air (D lux son)

basketball contracts in the works

feeding those that cant feed themselves.

picking flowers for mommy

sitting in her new chair

executive disney Claire letting her hair down

The slippers she was forced to wear before

Executive Claire after a long day.

Fun Fun (K for Klub?!?)

Claire and daddy on a day off.

Claire kicking it with some books

Picking out a new book to read

videos should work

ones of Claires love for the song from Psych ! ( a good show to watch)

and Claire playing at a park.

oh and feel free to click any picture to enlarge. that should work also.

Trumpets !!!!!!

Turns out if you wait long enough you do have more than enough pictures to make a blog.

So as most of you know The Goodman family is now expanded by 1.

the unnamed one will be named around April 12th (when we find out by best guess what sex it is) Yeeeeaaaaa!!

as far as this blog is concerned everything will go on. we'll try and add scans of the ultra sounds a as Daryl scans them in (part of the clean up deal).

ok so in no particular order pictures of Claire.

forgot to add the one picture above till later so its now above (make sense?!?)

Giant Bean bag chair of Oh so soft and cuddliness

Claire on the now gone breakfast nook. Kristin and Daryl have been rushing around to do some spring cleaning and also reinvent some things we have found to be a little unsafe-ish.

Daddy and Claire (not the best picture)

Claires newest passion cooking. shes making steak tartare. BAM!

Claire eating breakfast. we'll finding out whats that substance?... queue music

So as we said before the Goodmans have been trying to get things into a certain order. lots of cleaning and craigs listing. besides the table we got a shed (load of stuff to get rid of?) thats going to be basically garden stuff only. we also got some Raspberry bushes to plant once the Oleanders are gone. Other than that Daryl has been going back to the gym (really good deal at costco) Good luck to all as we are supposed to be seeing a white weekend.

Night all

natt alla

oh geez before i forget

new words by Claire

Awesome

elephant

nut

orange

purse

book

i might be repeating myself...maybe

:D

Ok so heres an update

Daryls done with his commission and just waiting on the Uk dude.

whats that mean..... that we should have had an update out a bit ago.

hahaha

Ok so Claire has grown so much that shes about a half a head above the top of the bed(king sized) shes gotten to where she lets herself down from the bed also.

Shes still learning new words and is almost to the point where you can have a rather basic conversation with her.

Claire is getting picky with her food but still wants what mommy and daddy are eating.

exhibit A:

and the pizza pic from last time.

yeah thats a chipolte burrito ...well a bit of one

Claires sultry face. or pouty

Playing in her chair with baby (baby has no name yet)

trying on dads sock (right foot) and dads slippers

Not a fashion faux pas shes just a trend setter.

Trying out the new toys before they have been assembled

Rewrapping said toys so she can open them again( i mixed up the sequence again, but if you click on any of the pics they enlarge)

Phew im tired i need a snackie (nackie is the word claire says to get a snackie)

Whats in this bag ...nothing but wrapped up stuff,,, hmm wheres more nackies

I know its a quick fix, but i should have a better update on the weekend. The Goodmans are trying out a need BBQ joint thats close by.

oh and a couple of days ago Claire for the 1st time jumped (she did it a bunch of times afterwards but a true off the ground, air jordan hangtime jump)

.....The Goodmans are all a bit under the weather with mild head colds. Claire just got over hers.

oh and Daryl is gearing up for a painting event on the Saturday the 28th of May. he needs to finish something for it but should have to only hurry a bit.

.... and with that ill see you again this weekend

night

Christmas and other things

Updates

So im going to try and keep up with the pictures now that i have a little more time to do so.

We were fortunate enough to be able to go to a YO gabba gabba vans shoe store opening(thanks mom) The line was crazy long and the time to get in and (much to our surprise) get a picture taken with 3 cast members from Yo Gabba Gabba was limited. The cool thing was we were able to find some yo gabba gabba shirts for Kristin and Claire to wear later and they were the last 2 left. Boo yah .

Twins like Arnold and Danny Devito.

Right after the picture session. Looks like Plex wants a word. Did anyone drop some food on the ground?

Luckily we had our own photographer on hand (thanks x 2 mom)

1/10 of the line

Early Christmas

i kind of did this backwards but if i finally have this blog down. I think if i moved them into the correct position you wouldnt be able to click and enlarge the pictures. (lets see)
Claire checking to make sure she has everything thing she needs in her new purse for her new baby.

forgot to rotate this and save.Everyone tilt your head.

again dont want to mess with it if im right about the pictures.

Caught having fun is a Goodman offence. Punishment is presents. YAH!!

Baby is hungry

Claires hungry now

again bass ackwards but Claire can open gifts pretty well(only a little help is needed)

Nice purse but definitely doesnt match my outfit

Whats this ?!? A purse, but does it match my outfit? now we have to go shopping for the right shoes.

Ok so some stats.

Claire is 25lbs

height is 33 inches

Claire has been eating with a fork (small real persons fork) for almost a month

Shes known how a door works but hasnt quite gotten the twist the door knob down yet(geez more kid proofing to come)

Claire's been known to grab garbage and put it the waste bin, grab dirty socks and put it in the hamper or even grab her shoes if we start getting ready to go out.

She hasnt quite gotten the english language down but has learned words like cheese, milk (even whens its water) and has also said thank you or ok at the appropriate times.

Shes also almost gotten down kissing farewell with either her hands or her feet.

Mommy and daddy are having a tough time keeping up with her.(no literally shes all kinds of quick and sneaky)

other than that i thinks thats about all the update i can remember.

normal house repairs in effect so nothing new there.

hope to have another update around christmas time, but we will see

Night !

UGH!!!

OK so it been over a month?!! WTH?

As before a lots happened (good stuff even)

Now lets see if i can remember it all ?

Not in this order but we went to a Yo Gabba Gabba Live concert and Claire loved it.

And Claire and Kristin got a super secret message from Yo Gabba Gabba (to the left )

Zoomy ZOOMERS

Other going ons is Kristin continuing pursuit of running.

Most recently Kristin Ran the "fastest marathon in the west". The California international marathon as part of a relay. She did very well, but was slightly hindered by the lack of organization. Daddy was ...more than slightly hindered. The relay area consisted of a fenced off area that everyone mobbed and they had one guy yelling out the race numbers when he saw them run into the fenced off area. The end of the race was at the capital lawn and was again mobbed by the masses. The part that daddy really had an issue with was that they wouldnt let anyone that wasnt a runner with in 50 yards of the finish line(which was separated by sex anyways). Bunches of live bands, people wandering the course and not the best organization didnt make any better. Before Daryl even tried to catch Kristin when she raced by shopping center by our house ,but seemed to have just missed her there. It then took him 15 mins to realize that the traffic wasnt going anywhere and downtown wasnt much better as getting out of the parking structure took the Goodman family at least 30 mins.

All in all UGH!

Claire was a good girl though out the entire trip so that was good.

random Claire pictures

Real pizza NOM NOM NOM

Claire is learning so much it scares me sometimes.

Claire can say "2" after someone starts with one.

She can also say "monkey", Doggie when theres a ..monkey or doggie and she can almost have a conversation with you.

She can pick up bandit the cat mostly cause bandit lets her.

She can climb the side of our bed to get on it

She can climb the couch, the round chair (starts with a P) that we got her, she can also climb out of the tomato (big 5 foot dia. red bean bag chair we inherited) and the couch without help.

Claire can climb out of the plastic exersaucer

Lucky she wasnt hurt (im a worry wart)

The Goodmans went and got a Christmas tree

i know what your thinking

but no. we went wayyyyyy out into the wilderness of Sunrise and Greenback were the newest of what has to be what you get when you cross a walmart and a dollar store together. Its wisebuy$

where nothing is over 10 bucks. Well this year they got an agreement to get christmas tree for .......you guessed it $9.98. Oh boy.. well the good part was that Kristin and I got to share the very first restaurant we ever ate at with Claire. Red Robin!! (obviously this wasnt the exact location but you get the idea).

Daryl is working on his plumber crack (not even looking for a picture for that one)

to tackle the newest crop of repair for the house. Leaky facet and stupid washer machine back up.

more on that when it happens (more than likely this weekend as it was supposed to be last weekend.)

Its late so ill bid you a good night and ill try and get some more info up in the next couple of days and maybe even make sense.

oh also

1 commission left. woot woot