Grace Watch #12 (May 5-11, 2008)

New Words: Some of her new words include happy (appy), slide (lide), cow (tow), rake (rik--see picture below), Ariel (Areo--kinda like a feminine form of Oreo), Jasmine (Nah-meen), and she has this new phrase: "lor lap", which means, "I want to sit on your lap." :) And she has also recently discovered how to say the sound for "L", and she thoroughly enjoys it! Before she would just say the "D" sound (e.g. hedoh for hello), but now she goes all out for that L sound by sticking her tongue all the way out of her mouth whenever saying something with the sound in it. Go ahead and try with the word "little"--it's pretty fun. Anyway, here's a video of her saying a few words with "L" in them. (Sorry for all the back-and-forth action; she wanted to grab the camera, and I wanted to keep it away from her.)

New Food: She tried fruit snacks for the first time (that I'm aware of) last week at Mimi's house, and she loved them! (Who wouldn't?) She also had her first sampling of that All-American Cake from Costco (y'know, the one with like 5 layers of chocolate cake and 5 layers of ooey-gooey fudgey frosting, with big pieces of shaved chocolate on the outside?) because we had that at the family Mother's Day celebration. Amazingly, she liked that too. :)

Papi taught her how to rake. What a big girl!

New Injuries: Ooh, we had some bad ones this week! First, I smashed 3 of the fingers on her left hand in a kitchen cabinet! I had it open getting food out and she put her hand in the side where the hinges are, and I closed it on her! I felt so awful! Then the next day she slammed a drawer on her thumb (same hand), breaking the skin. Then, on Sunday Dave was playing "I'm Gonna Get You" with her, and she fell and got a rug burn just below her nose. I don't know why it got there and not her nose or lips, but anyway...it was sad. However, one cute thing that has come out of all these owies is that she likes to have us kiss her owies to make them all better. After she gets an owie, she says, "Owie...tiss?" and then one of us kisses it and she says, "Ah-behbee" to say "All better." It's so sweet!

Other: On Friday we went and visited Grammy & Gramps (Dave's paternal grandparents), and Gracie had a lot of fun playing in their backyard. They have a fun fountain that she loves to splash her hands in, and they always have juice, crackers, pudding, and all kinds of goodies that we don't have at home, so she loves it there! Here's a picture of her playing in the fountain.

Mother's Day: I guess this has more to do with me, but I had such a wonderful Mother's Day, thanks to Dave and Gracie. For my gifts, Dave took me to Michael's on Saturday to let me get a bunch of scrapbooking stuff that I'd been wanting for a while; then Gracie gave me some sidewalk chalk as a present so we can draw pictures outside together. :) On Sunday morning, Dave got up with Gracie and let me sleep in, and then they woke me up to breakfast in bed!

I tell ya, Dave cooks a mean breakfast. He made me hash browns, eggs (both scrambled and fried, 'cause he wasn't sure which I would rather have), bacon, and pancakes, with a fresh orange on the side and both milk and juice to drink! And it was all delicious! Gracie sat on my lap while I ate and sampled all of my food, which made it that much cuter. He also made dinner that night and made me feel special all day long. I love that guy!

I'm such a lucky mommy!

Finally, here are some more favorite pictures from the week:

Gracie in her cute hand-me-down nightgown from her cousins.

Look what I found in my laundry basket!

Her favorite part of coloring is shaking the box of crayons. Cheap thrills, huh?

This is what happens when you play in your crib for an hour
instead of sleeping--you fall asleep on the way INTO Target. :)

That's all, Folks! See ya next week!