Jeff, Gracie, and I celebrated our Christmas today. We decided to allow Gracie to open presents throughout the day, so that she could play with the ones she opened. Gracie doesn't love the actually opening, but loves to see what is inside. The first present she opened was a V-tech Laptop computer. It was a huge hit. She constantly wants to play on our computers, so she was thrilled to have one of her own.
We just hung out all day and enjoyed each other's company. At one point this afternoon after nap, we all opened presents and all of the things sort of overwhelmed Gracie. She got very moody and wanted to go upstairs (our tree and presents are downstairs). We sort of forgot how much changing Gracie's surroundings bothers her.
The one thing we really noticed today was that Gracie talked ALOT. She repeated so much of what we were saying, she said words without being prompted, she pointed to her babies eye and spontaneously said "eye". She has a great love of our fireplace and she has a point where she has to stop and can't go beyond that point when it is on. She tests me and when she gets to that spot, I always say "That's close enough." She heard that alot today as we spent alot of time in the family room today. By the end of the evening, she would go to her stopping spot and say "close enough". Yes, she was putting two words together!
Gracie also had great fun pushing her baby in the stroller around the house. She is even just starting to learn to turn the stroller when she gets to a barrier or when she wants to go a different direction. This is much easier for her on the kitchen linoleum than on the carpet in the rest of the house.
With the big winter storm upon us, our travel plans for tomorrow have been postponed, so the three of us will enjoy Christmas Day together at home. If the weather is mild enough, we may have to take Gracie out in the back yard to play in the snow.
Please be safe if you are travelling. Merry Christmas!
Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie
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