First Day of School

It was a rainy day - kind of unusual but pleasant. That didn't stop Claire. She loved waiting for that bus!

School began last week and Jason caught the pictures of Claire climbing on the bus. By this week, she didn't even care if he walked her to the stop or not.

Here we are, Jason, Claire, Grandma and me. The temperatures were lovely and everyone had a good time.
We went to Cleveland for the 4th to visit Grandma Prucha. She had her whole family around her - all 32 of us! Here are some of the things we did.

new van

We finally bought a supbus (pronounced soup bus).  What's a supbus you ask?  That is Claire's invented word for a car with a DVD player in it.  She's used the word for years and is only now abandoning it.

Texas!

Here's Claire in July 2007.

Here is Claire in May 2009!

What a huge difference!  Hasn't she grown?

I'll post more about our adventures in San Antonio but I wanted to make sure I shared these two photos first.