Wednesday/Thursdsay - Tangled

Another exciting daycare adventure for Gracie yesterday. She got to go to the movie theater and watch the Walt Disney movie "Tangled". Gracie has never been to a movie theater before and she was a little nervous going in, but once she was reassured she LOVED IT!!!! She sat through the whole movie and thought it was great. She was in a very good mood last night and was just silly at times. I would ask her "Gracie, did you go to the movies today?" She would get a huge smile on her face and say very loudly, yet in a teasing voice, "NO"! I would then say "Yes you did!" and she would just giggle. She fell asleep quite quickly last night, but she was very restless from about 1:00 a.m. on. She awoke this morning and her first request was "Brock". She has a laminated class picture from school that she carries around and she has two names of kids that she picks out and says their name "Brock" and "Justine". It's so sweet to see her smile when she says their names. It was a fasting morning for Gracie today as we headed to the clinic to get a blood test. Her neurologist wanted to check to see how her system is handling the seizure med increase. Gracie got to see her friend Rachel at the desk and a few other friends. It's interesting to watch the dynamics that go on when Gracie gets her blood drawn. It is not the needle stick that makes her mad or cry, it is the fact that her arm has to be restrained. She fusses and fusses about that, but doesn't even flinch when the needle poke happens. Then as soon as her arm is released, she just starts talking in her sweet little voice like it never happened. I am so thankful for this, as I witnessed a child carry on and on and on before he was to go have his blood drawn this morning. I realized how lucky I am to have Gracie be such a trooper. Then we headed to a breakroom for her to eat breakfast and get her seizure meds. She was the social director in the breakroom, saying "hi" to everyone...many got "hi's" multiple times. She was very happy to eat. She kept asking for food all morning before we got to the clinic. She would be very mad when I wouldn't let her have any. I hate saying "no" to food when I know she is hungry. I think today was going to be a more mellow "stay-at-home" day at daycare. No big adventures - she certainly has had some fun ones this week. Love, Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie