Grace at one!!
Gracie starts the days (usually) at about 7:30 or 8am. Her new habit is when she sees me coming in to get her she stops "calling" for me and grabs her blanket and baby ( this i love, that she is attached to the blankie and baby) Then she gets to nurse. One of two feeding she still gets. Weaning her has been pretty easy, but she is definitely still more into than her brother was. Then we head to the kitchen for a little breakie. Grace loves bananas, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, pancakes, Cheerios, applesauce.. You name it she likes it! I love that she is a good eater! One less thing to worry about! ;-)
Then we play or run errand or go for a walk. This past week we started getting serious about how I put her down for naps and bedtime. I have been guilty of nursing her to sleep so we needed to change our ways. Grace has handled it like a champ. Hardly any extra fussing. Her morning naps are at about 10:30-11 and for an hour or less, but she is taking them! Then some playing and lunch. The afternoon can be tricky because of my work schedule. During the week I work and 3pm and usually drop the kids off at Sharon's ( who we are so blessed to have) at about 2:15 so if she hasn't fallen asleep she does driving the 2 mile drive over and then might or might not fall back asleep inside. At home, she usually does another hour. Sometimes if the morning doesn't allow us a am nap she will take an hour and a half to two hour nap about 1pm. We are working on it! But I'll take what I can get and any sleep is good for her and for me!
Then we play until daddy gets home, have dinner, walk the pups, and get what ever else we can get up to before bed! We try to have both kids down by 8-8:30. We have gotten pretty good at bedtime with a bottle or pumped milk some stories, winding down in the crib while being supervised, then watching her "tv" ( the music and motion machine) and maybe a minute of fussing. She is such a good kid! We have been so blessed with two healthy great kids!
She cracks me up. She shakes her head "yes" and "no"! She is even appropriate with it! Like when she sees her baby dolls! She shakes "yes" and gives a BIG grin! Grace loves to use a wipe to clean her face and has started to share...occasionally.
Today started with Grace waking up at 5:30 because of a yucky dirty diaper. She has a bad rash right now, which we aren't sure if it's from something she ate or teething? She still is toothless!! Mommy and daddy both got up and gave her a bath and took her down for some breakfast.
Then I took the kids to church and Robb got to nap. ( max was up in the middle of the night sick and then grace up at 5:30 left little sleep for us) when we came home we helped clean up the house and then moved outside where we weeded the garden and Robb got caught up cutting down tree branches. So that led to a little nap and the a trip to the dump and trip to target where we had a picnic lunch and then to home depot to get supplies to lay down new fabric in the play area outside. Right now we have lots of holes! Then uncle Jason came over and we hung up a swing to the big trees out back and swung. We all ate Broadway for dinner and then had cake and ice cream!
Robb and I stayed up late last night finishing up the rainbow cake and let's say it was a work in progress. We learned lots! lol!! Then it was time for a bath, can you see why?
Tonight, as we listened to it storm, we read books then I let her play for a few minutes. She has a corner in her room where we we have some blankets her Dolly's and dolly accessories. She brought her baby to the bed and put a blanket over her and I said "give baby a kiss" she bent down smothered baby's face and said "muah ". I love that she is starting to "get it"! Such a big girl!
We have been blessed with people sending cards and outfits for our little ones birthday! Thank you to each of you! We adore the gesture! And we know she is fun to spoil!
Robb has been fixated on wanting to build a playhouse this summer. Its all he can talk about and google the last two weeks. I'll show you as it happens!
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