Tuesday: A Good Night's Sleep = Happy Girl

I'm beyond thrilled to say that Gracie had a good night's sleep. She awoke in a less than happy mood, but with a little snuggling, she was soon a happy girl and that was the theme for the day. Gracie likes to tease mom and dad. Every morning after she has her coat on and I'm ready for us to leave for work and daycare, I say "Who wants to go bye, bye with mommy?" She usually just hangs back for awhile and then as I head for the stairs she decides she had better come too and comes running with a smile on her face. Not today. Today she hung back and after I asked a couple of times, she climbed up on the couch and got in a real relaxed position and she was not going to move. So I finally came to get her and asked if she was teasing mommy. Great giggles ensued.

Gracie had a good day at daycare and Jeff picked her up for her afternoon PT appointment at the clinic. She sure was sad when she saw that the clinical assistants were very busy and wouldn't have time to take her for a walk. She was thrilled to see Leslie, her PT, and Courtney the PT intern. Gracie had great fun on the big exercise ball. She used to resist any work with it, now she loves it, the more she can bounce on it, the better she likes it. She asked to ride the tricycle today and oh was I proud. She can do it all on her own. It's very slow going and you have to help her steer, but she was pedaling on her own. She rode it for a long time. We worked a little bit with kicking the ball and that is one of our goals to work on til next visit. The other is carrying a basket or pail of things without spilling the contents. Gracie got to go on the slide and that was a hit. She can get up to the top of the slide herself and is getting very confident in her skills so loves to do it. She stands at the top of the slide and just yells and jabbers in excitement.

Gracie was such a good girl all night long and in a great mood throughout the whole evening. Her new verbal words for the evening were "Grandpa" and "Grandma". She has a family tree that she made at daycare with pictures of both of her grandmas and grandpas on it. She loves this family tree and she went around the house carrying it tonight telling us who they were.

Her night has started out restless, I'm hoping it becomes more restful soon.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie