Today was Claire's 5th Birthday!
A different scene from 5 years ago when she was born.
Claire was born 3 1/2 weeks early. We were planning a homebirth for mid-July, so naturally Aaron rescheduled his summer guy's trip to Vegas for the weekend of June 25. Aaron in Vegas, Ryan in Costa Rica and my Mom in St. Louis. After a horrible nights sleep and a day of laboring with my 2 year old son (Chase) by my side, Claire was born (at home in my garden bathtub with the help of midwives) at 9:59 PM.
But everyone was here today! Meme, Aunt Aud, Uncle Ryan, Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Adam, us and some good friends. Now... Aaron did have to leave at 2:30 to go to Vegas... OH the irony. We had a pool party, where 4 of Claire's friends came over and 2 having brothers... Chase had a friend and Henri made a new friend. They're all such great kids... lots and lots of fun!! I LOVE seeing them all jump into the pool together or teaming up on Uncle Ryan.
Claire, Anna Leigh (half), Emma, and Clara
Before dinner, I fed the dogs in our garage (with the door open). It began to thunderstorm and our oldest golden (Buddy, 14) wandered off. Now he may be deaf, but whenever we get a hard rain with thunder and lightning... he panics. He did it nearly a year ago... wandered off and we found him (thanks to a nice man) nearly 2-3 miles away. I had about given up tonight... and we decided to go ahead and go to dinner. When we got to the front of our neighborhood... there was Buddy walking on the road... drenched... almost smiling. Thank goodness.
Chase, Claire, Henri and Aunt Audrey eating a Brickle Brownie at K38
Lindsay, Adam and Raegan left for St. Louis this evening... a little sad...we're going to miss them.
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