Gracie just continues to amaze me everyday. She's become so independent tooling around the house all by herself now for over a month. She does so well with us telling her no too. She will look up at us before touching something she knows she's not supposed to touch - light sockets, the tv, cords...etc. and just watch us to see if we're going to tell her no! You can see it on her face! As soon as we tell her no, she stops and goes on to something else. Blows my mind!

She's started imitating our sounds too and Jacob loves playing that game with her. She'll call for him in the house and want him to start copying her sounds - it's so funny hear them back and forth with each other.

We're all most there with on command "bo kisses"! Her favorite thing to do is crawl up to the dishwasher, pull herself up, and stand there talking to and waving at the baby in the mirror. She's picked up a new habit of pointing at everything and saying "Dat" with her voice going up at the end of the word.. Ok so I call it a word.

Last night we had our friends and their adorable children over for dinner - E-Drake and Lukeabeara. Luke is almost 5 months old and is the same size as our little Gracie! She was fascinated with him and was a little flirt. So cute - they'll grow up being good friends. I'm so thankful for that.

Today she figured out she could push the activity table across the floor by walking with it - first time she's ever done that and she looked quite proud of herself. I'm relieved she's figured out how to get from sitting to crawling to standing and back down again with crashing and burning... almost was tempted to by a baby helmet there for a while.

Need a baby gate in a bad way...

We start school on August 11th. Jacob is really excited to start his new school and seems to be adjusting well to the change - really helps since Seth will be in his class. This kid's SAT scores were out of the park... seriously. Scoring a 10th grade equiv level on Language, 5th grade in a few other subjects, some 4th grade... I gave them to the principal at his new school and she was amazed. He'll be placed in a gifted cluster program - and bless his little heart - I hope they can do something about that common sense issue he's got going on. My goodness. He's the sweetest kid, so thoughtful and generous and good-spirited...but man oh man... the common sense sometimes - or lack there of kills me! I love that kid to death. He's such an amazing kid and such a great big brother. He loves his little sister so much - I never imagined he would be this great with her. We just bought all the school supplies today and he started to get really excited once we got home and sorted everything. He's really looking forward to school.

Dom and I saw X-files movie tonight - was really good. Really awesome to see a movie like that glorify our King. The story boiled down to not losing faith in God, and the freedom of forgiveness. Little disturbing at points... but the basis of the story was really good. Yes, God listens to your prayers, yes He forgives your sins, and all He wants in return is faith and trust in Him. Beautiful.