Christmas Fun

We went to make sugar cookies at my grandma's (Gracie's great-grandma) house today. Grace liked the cookie cutters and the rolling pin, but her fingers kept getting sticky. The OCD was coming out in her and she really didn't like the sticky feeling. So she and Grandma went outside to play while mom and dad finished the cookies.

Grace's 4 month old friend Brooklyn came over to visit and Grace was trying to teach her to crawl. Didn't go so well!

We got Grace's "big girl" bed today- it's going to take awhile to get her used to that. Cousin Molly comes in March and wants to use the crib, so we are starting to work on the big girl bed.

It's already been a busy week and on Christmas day we will be heading to Fredericksburg for a few days.

We held our First Annual Donuts with Santa at my school this past weekend. It was a great fundraiser for our school. Steven brought Gracie and they had donuts, made a christmas card and Gracie had her picture taken with Santa. This Santa is a special one- a good friend of ours. Gracie loves her Jeff and I think she recognized his voice under the Santa costume and did such a great job getting her picture taken! She just kept looking at him like "I know this guy!"

She saw a friend of hers, Brenden, who is almost a year old. She was talking to him and just carrying on a long conversation. Brenden was a good listener!:)

Gracie had a blast running the halls at Donuts with Santa and playing with the other little ones. She didn't want to go!

Aunt Elysa and Grace

My little bug...She was supposed to be a cow, but she didn't like wearing the cow costume. I think she turned out so cute as a ladybug!! We trick or treated at my parents, my sister and her husbands house and at Great grandmas. We ended up a friend's house for a Halloween party where she got to see her babysitter and kids. Grace was up late and up early this morning!! She was too cute saying "trick or treat!"

Sitting on a giant pumpkin coloring book Great Grandma bought her!

One last picture from the Arboretum.

The Dallas Arboretum

We went to the Dallas Arboretum a couple weeks ago with my mom and grandma. Grace had a great time climbing the mountains of pumpkins. She loves being outside, so she had an awesome day!

My Future Hawk

We went to the Rockwall Heath football game Friday night. Grace was feeling much better by Friday so we went. We only got to stay for an hour, but Grace was having such a good time! We checked out the new aquatics center next door before the game- She was VERY interested in the swimmers in the pool.
Next week is the Rockwall Heath vs. Rockwall HS football game. Grace and I will be sitting on the Heath side with daddy, but we will be wearing Rockwall HS orange since that's where mommy went. She has a cute little Yellowjacket "bling" tshirt and clip so watch for pics next week.

And they're in!

Gracie now has four molars in. #4 is about halfway through the gums. These last 2 days have been terrible! Short naps, not eating much, fussy, screaming! Hopefully this is the end of teeth for a little bit. I could use a break! (And I'm sure Miss Tina agrees too :) )

Hose

Mimi (my mom) taught Gracie how to play in the water hose. She loves it as you can see. This day we were playing outside and she picked up her little pool off the deck, walked all the way around the deck straight to the hose. She kept reaching up to the faucet trying to turn it on. She had a blast playing the hose. She loves it when the dog drinks out of the hose while she is holding it.
Grace is getting so many new words each day. It's just amazing! Her latest ones are "side" (outside), walk, and back (that is her telling the dogs to get back). It's really cute. We hear "side" quite a bit. She loves to play outside. We've been out quite a bit now that the air has been a little cooler the last few days.