Our Girl

It is so fun for us to see Grace getting bigger. When she was an infant we wondered what activities she'd like to do someday, what her personality would look like, what her loves and dislikes would be... And day by day, more of Grace is revealed. Here are her latest quirks and skills...

Grace loves BOOKS. We teacher-parents haven't even forced them on her...honest! We have a basket of them in the living room and her favorite activity involves either looking at books, packing around books, or turning pages of books. Right now her favorite has all sorts of animals in it and she loves to make the fishy face and moo with the cow and point to animals and wait for us to say their names. When she gets to the monkey, we make the monkey face and that leads us to find Uncle Drew and Aunt Annie in the family picture... And that is her second love--toting around and saying all the names of the family members in our two framed family pictures. Don't have a picture of that, but you can imagine us finding those framed pictures in all rooms of the house. (with Grace chanting, "Abby...abby...")

She watches Dad read the paper in the morning and loves to play with paper. She also loves cell phones and pens. We're trying to work on scribbling, but most often the pen is enjoyed more when tasted.

"Uppy, uppy!" Grace says 'up' whenever she wants to sit in her chair outside or her highchair in the kitchen...or when she climbs the stairs, or when she wants to be held... She also says "uppy" when she wants DOWN from her chair or when she wants the music turned ON... We think she's suffering from preposition confusion.



Grace LOVES the water. She says, "POOL" and gets really excited when we start putting on her swimsuit. Several times at G'ma Joan's they went to FILL the pool and Gracie came back with wet clothes. We were home a time or two this summer to use the inflatable pool that Auntie Julie gave her for her birthday. She loves it! Oh, and the bath is second best--she's really into nodding her head YES and we were wondering if she knew how to nod NO...apparently G'ma Joan got to see her do this first when she asked Grace if she was ready to get out of the bath...a fierce nod, NO. :)

And, of course she likes to spoil her daddy whenever possible. She says "Daddy" with the confidence of a well-loved girl.

Never did we think a kid could be so fun. If only we could've somehow had a sneak peek of these moments during those sleepless newborn nights so long ago... :)