Friday - Where's Gracie?

Gracie had a good night last night and awoke in a good mood this morning. She had a lot of great smiles and was quite happy to roam the house. At one point she was a little too quiet. I found her pulling clean bottle nipples off the top of the cupboard where they had been left to dry last evening. She had one in each hand and a big smile on her face as if she had found gold.

I dropped Gracie off at daycare and Barb tried to get Gracie to climb up on the couch for me, but true to form, Gracie can be very stubborn if she doesn't want to do something, and she didn't want to do that. When Jeff picked her up from daycare late this afternoon, he was told that Gracie has mastered getting up on the couch and is now working on how to get down without falling.

All of you who know Gracie well, know that her absolute favorite game is peek-a-boo! Many times in the car she'll take her blankie and put it over her head and just wait for us to discover that she is playing peek-a-boo and ask "Where's Gracie". She had done this on the way home from daycare with Jeff. So when I got home from work, I was holding Gracie and Jeff started to tell me how on the way home he thought he had left Gracie at daycare because she wasn't in the back of the van. He went on to say, but then she appeared from under her blankie. He was making a big production of this story and Gracie was just eating it up. She was laughing as if she knew exactly what he was saying. When he was all done with his story and our laughter, Gracie gave him a high five. I think I have two comedians in the house.

Gracie had a good evening. We played and worked on purposeful release. We were so close. We'll work on that again tomorrow. Gracie also went to get her picture book, she just loves to look at pictures of herself.

We are looking forward to some time tomorrow to work on all the things we started to work on at OT and PT. Saturdays are good days for me to really work on those things with her.

Have a great weekend.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie