Saturday - Time with Mommy & Daddy

Gracie had a good night last night and woke up about 6:30 a.m. Both Jeff and I had hair appointments this morning. His first and mine directly following, so we did a Gracie swap at the salon. Gracie was her charming self and beamed when they let her sit in the big desk chair. I did have a couple of the stylists look at Gracie's hair, it's so dry looking and I wanted to know what I should be doing...a cut? a different hair product? Essentially we're doing everything right, they said her hair was doing fine and that it takes a really long time for curly hair like that to look long. So I'll continue with the current routine. We need to be careful not to comb or brush it when it is dry as that causes breakage.

Gracie and daddy ran a few errands and then came home to play, have lunch, and take a nap. I'm told that Gracie was pronouncing the word down very clear this morning. Gracie and I hung out this afternoon and she was a very good girl. We took a walk around the long extended block. She made it very clear when her legs were tired as she just sat down on the sidewalk. So I gave her a piggyback ride part of the way. We came across some neighbor kids playing basketball and she thought that looked like fun and kept motioning with her hands overhead, kind of imitating them. Then we came to our neighbors house that has tons of Christmas lights and lawn ornaments. They had two of Gracie's favorite things...Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. Gracie fell in love with both and danced while mommy sang the songs. She didn't want to leave. So I let her just stand and look for awhile, then I told her we had to go bye, bye. She blew Frosty kisses goodbye. Later when we were telling daddy about it, she got a big smile and started dancing like she did when she was by Frosty.

Gracie walked up the steps all by herself today. Daddy was right there ready to catch her if she fell, but she did it all on her own. She is getting so strong and making such good progress.

She was a tired girl tonight and is now sleeping soundly...with daddy sleeping soundly right next to her.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie