Grace is 2.5, and then some!

Ill open like this!

There is a cute video of Gracie singing happy half birthday to herself with the cupcakes she picked out to bring to daycare! 

Grace at 2.5 is a joy and a challenge. She is sweet and loving. She is also headstrong and full steam ahead. 

She loves her brother and they have started to play so well together. She definitely looks up to him and tries to do everything he does. Most of the time he doesn't even notice. She keeps up really well. Grace loves her baby sister as she has and wants to be literally VERY hands on! I think it's only partially reciprocated. Gia loves her with a little distance away. She is very living just wants to hold Gia and get right up in her face. Sometimes I have to remind myself that she's only 2.5! She is very tall for her age and dare I say 3t's are fitting just right, soon to be 4's?! 

We had a hard time for 5-6 weeks at ECFE where she didn't want to separate at the designated time, or anytime for that matter. We got through it! I am very pleases to say that! It was hard on me. It coinsided with me going back to work. I guess that was one of the only kinks though! That and Georgia not wanting to bottle!

She is the one that I don't come naturally to parenting. Not sure if we are too much alike or too different. Probably, too alike, and I digress. I just need to learn about raising this spirited kiddo so that I harness her energy and thoughts to mold them into something that will do well for her. Not hinder her. That is my goal. 

More about Gracie bug or Gracie varmit as grandpa Jerry calls her.. She's smart! Can count to. 9, sings her abc's kind of (a b c d e f g h I j klmmop e f g, q r s t lmnop, y z and now sing with me! ). She seems to like art: painting and coloring for sure. 

More recently, maybe since being 2.5 she has started to use princess and friends from her "school" names for her babies and herself. Sometimes she is Gracie Ariel and sometimes she is Mary. She's been Scarlett and Gracie Cinderella. It's breaking wide open now.. I was wondering when all her babies would have different names. It's now! 

And speaking of princess' she loves them all! And Daniel tiger and Calliou. Her/our most recent discovery is princess Sofia whom she has been infatuated with. It's very cute how she's been listening to the CDs and trying to learn the words. She got some generic yet color appropriate tinker bell, princess Sofia and sleeping beauty dresses that she is living dressing up in!

I am sure I will add more but the more I invest in this blog post the more I realize I have so So many other posts to do!

Thanks for checking in!