Sunday, July 5, 2009

4th of July Weekend - Happy, Social Girl

Gracie had a great Fourth of July weekend. She had great nights (other than a night terror on Saturday night) and awoke in great moods. I can tell that she is more at ease now that Jeff is home. She is still a little clingy at times, but slowly that is getting better too.

We had quite the social weekend. On Saturday we went to Aunt Sheila and Uncle Chris' house to celebrate the 4th with family. Gracie loved spending time with her cousins and some of her aunts and uncles. She also enjoyed their yellow lab. She was a good girl all day long and had fun playing with everyone. She had her music therapy on Aunt Sheila's piano too. The weather wasn't great, but that didn't stop us from having fun.

Today Grandma & Grandpa D., and Aunt Kathy came over for lunch and to hang out for the day. Gracie enjoyed the company and got to play outside with her water table. Grandpa helped daddy carry Gracie's new mattress up to her room. Gracie was super excited with her new bed tonight. It's higher than her old one, so she has to re-learn crawling off and on. She almost had a face plant tonight, so now we have pillows around the outside until she gets used to it.

We played outside today and Gracie's confidence with walking in the grass is really improving. Tonight she walked across half of the backyard to the fence to watch the neighbors sprinklers. She did this a number of times and does really well.

Tonight Gracie was drinking her night bottle while sitting on my lap, Jeff sat down on the couch by us, closed his eyes and pretended to snore. Gracie thought this was hilarious and would giggle. So tonight I am walking with her and singing her to sleep. She is resting her head on my shoulder and is nice and calm...and then she started pretending to snore. Oh my gosh, I could barely hold the laughter in. What a little card.

She is now snoozing on her new mattress. I hope she thinks it is comfy.

Have a good week.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie

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