Our little girl is following directions so good now! We can ask her to do several simple things, like get your baby, give kisses and cuddles, get your ball, get your cup, go to the kitchen, find brother and she's walking with just holding one of our hands! She's getting big so quick! She's really trying to communicate with us a lot more now verbally as well. She has dada and mama down and really tries to say brother - gets out the "bra", tries to say ball, and all done. :) I'm so incredibily thankful she's such an amazing baby. She loves just sitting down by me and playing for a good 30-45 minutes all by herself keeping herself entertained with her toys. We set up her little pink playhouse tent with some toys for her in the living room and she LOVES it! She'll play and hang out in the tent peaking out now and then to play peek a boo. I can't believe she's going to be a year old in less than two months!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Simon Says...and other stuff
Gracie officially knows how to play simon says... well ok without the simon says part. I asked her last night in the bathub, "get your duck, get your turtle, splash, and give kisses - and she did it all on command! She knows "where's your binkie?" too and she'll look for it and stick it in her mouth! So cute! She's growing up so fast and talking so much! I can tell she is trying to say different things with the sounds she's using - and she studies me all day when I'm talking on the phone or with Jacob.
Clapping hands is almost mastered! She stops and looks at both of her hands before she claps each time like - how do you do this again? :)
I just found out yesterday I start my new job on August 25th! FULL TIME AT HOME! What a blessing this is. I'm so excited!
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart - Psalm 37:4
Clapping hands is almost mastered! She stops and looks at both of her hands before she claps each time like - how do you do this again? :)
I just found out yesterday I start my new job on August 25th! FULL TIME AT HOME! What a blessing this is. I'm so excited!
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart - Psalm 37:4
Saturday, August 2, 2008
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.
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.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Goofy Gracie
Gracie is such a nut - she has such personality... a very silly one. She started playing with her tongue a couple weeks ago and she's absolutely fascinated with it. She's copying all of our motions and loves putting her finger up to her mouth and listening to her own voice as she strums her lips like a guitar string making the silliest noises. Her tongue finds it's way out every time she sees something that she wants and starts after it with determination. She reminds me so much of Jacob at this age.Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Phoenix Zoo
I decided to take a week off of work mainly to spend time with Jacob. He's been looking foward to this week all summer and one of the things he really wanted to do was go to the zoo. I told him it would probably be too hot but we'll see and to pray for cool weather!
Jacob thought is was pretty awesome that God answered our prayer on Monday. We woke up to and overcast 81 degrees outside!
We packed up some snacks and doughnuts...can't forget the doughnuts... and headed off to the zoo at 630am.... coffee anyone?
Gracie did great just hanging out in her stroller and was more interested in the trees than in the animals but whatever works! She did stop and look at the ducks that were crossing the path by the lake. Sitting there with her foot propped up on her carseat just chillin watching the ducks cross. We checked out the Harmony Farm petting zoo to see the goats and she was very interested in touching them and talking to them! So cute! Then she was out for the count the rest of the time at the zoo. She's like her daddy and will sleep anywhere!
Jacob was on map patrol and took his job VERY seriously. He led us around the whole zoo following the map by every detail. He enjoyed trying to show his sister all the animals and was quick to point out the rear ends of all the animals... what a boy!
On out Jacob wanted to do the camel ride which lasted all of a minute and was $5! After getting off the camel and walking off the steps he says "that wasn't a very long camel ride for 5 bucks!" LOVE IT!!!
After the zoo we went to Grandma and Granddads to eat lunch then home to play the Wii. We had a great day!
Jacob thought is was pretty awesome that God answered our prayer on Monday. We woke up to and overcast 81 degrees outside!
We packed up some snacks and doughnuts...can't forget the doughnuts... and headed off to the zoo at 630am.... coffee anyone?
Gracie did great just hanging out in her stroller and was more interested in the trees than in the animals but whatever works! She did stop and look at the ducks that were crossing the path by the lake. Sitting there with her foot propped up on her carseat just chillin watching the ducks cross. We checked out the Harmony Farm petting zoo to see the goats and she was very interested in touching them and talking to them! So cute! Then she was out for the count the rest of the time at the zoo. She's like her daddy and will sleep anywhere!
Jacob was on map patrol and took his job VERY seriously. He led us around the whole zoo following the map by every detail. He enjoyed trying to show his sister all the animals and was quick to point out the rear ends of all the animals... what a boy!
On out Jacob wanted to do the camel ride which lasted all of a minute and was $5! After getting off the camel and walking off the steps he says "that wasn't a very long camel ride for 5 bucks!" LOVE IT!!!
After the zoo we went to Grandma and Granddads to eat lunch then home to play the Wii. We had a great day!
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