It’s been a busy year, mainly centered on watching our Miss Claire grow and change… What a difference a year makes! Claire is now 15 ½ months old and has all sorts of new skills:
- Climbs up and down our whole staircase
- Cruises and pulls up on everything (INCHES from walking)
- Loves to say animal noises: dog, cat, elephant, cow, monkey, gorilla, owl, & chick so far with new ones added daily
- Has a great vocabulary: Daddy, Mama, Dede, Nana, Bailey, that, bear, baby, up, out, yay, uh-oh, hi, bye-bye, whoa, row-row, ho-ho-ho
Uses sign language well: more, all done, thank you, I love you, hungry, fish, claps, blows kisses - Feeds herself very well (all table food now)
- Loves music & will sign, “More, more, more” if she likes a song
- Loves school & playing with other kids
We traveled a lot this year as a family, thanks to a Southwest companion pass, a girl under two, and Graham having quite a few work conferences in interesting places. We also took our first road trip as a family and spent a week on Gull Lake in Minnesota with Nana. We had a wonderful time…
Graham is still VP of Sales with Netchemia, and Mindee is still an Analyst with the Kauffman Foundation (part-time). We both very much enjoy what we do…
Mindee is also going to graduate school part time at the University of Kansas – she began a Marketing Communications program just after we found out we were pregnant, so attended one semester’s worth of classes and then took a year off. She’s about a third of the way through the program so has a few more years to go.
In sharing our joys of the year, we have a bit of sorrow to share as well. We lost both of Graham’s beloved grandmothers this year; two remarkable women who are both very missed. We’re grateful they got to meet Claire.
We wish you and yours all the best in 2009!
Much love,
Graham, Mindee, and Claire Forman
For regular news and photo updates, check out our blog at http://munchkinforman.blogspot.com/
Graham is still VP of Sales with Netchemia, and Mindee is still an Analyst with the Kauffman Foundation (part-time). We both very much enjoy what we do…
Mindee is also going to graduate school part time at the University of Kansas – she began a Marketing Communications program just after we found out we were pregnant, so attended one semester’s worth of classes and then took a year off. She’s about a third of the way through the program so has a few more years to go.
In sharing our joys of the year, we have a bit of sorrow to share as well. We lost both of Graham’s beloved grandmothers this year; two remarkable women who are both very missed. We’re grateful they got to meet Claire.
We wish you and yours all the best in 2009!
Much love,
Graham, Mindee, and Claire Forman
For regular news and photo updates, check out our blog at http://munchkinforman.blogspot.com/
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