A Beautiful Sunday

If there is such a thing as a perfect day, this may just have been it. Gracie was in a great mood today, despite having had a horribly restless night. We all got up bright and early and headed to 9:00 a.m. service at Jeff's church. Gracie was in her glory with all the great music. She also made some new friends. She just went over to a woman she hasn't ever met before and sat on her lap. It was obvious this woman, Vicky, loved children and Gracie sensed it. I was in disbelief at how long Gracie sat on her lap. Then she made a few other friends as well. During the service she decided she could walk down the row of chairs we were in and sat on another woman's lap for awhile. Then she would get down and dance a while. Then back onto the chair, then down to dance again.

After "church", which happens to be a new word that Gracie can say, we came home and sort of had lunch. Gracie really wasn't into lunch. She wanted milk, but not much for food. Then it was nap time, but Gracie was again very restless and didn't sleep very long. I thought that was a bad sign, but I was wrong. She continued to be in a great mood.

We went outside and played for awhile, then we headed for a walk to the nearby school to swing and slide again. Gracie did remarkable and walked most of the way to and from herself. When she would get tired she would get up on my back, but she was a trooper. At one point she was running ahead of us just having a great time. When I caught up with her, her little heart was pounding a hundred miles an hour. We made some new friends at the park and that was fun too.

We came home and I made some strawberry smoothies. We sat on the deck and ate those while basking in the sunshine. We took a break after that and came in the house for a little while to read books. Then we headed to the store to pick up a few things and stopped at Culver's to pick up supper. Oh my gosh Gracie put the food away tonight. She ate half of my hamburger, some chicken tenders, french fries, applesauce, some of my salad (her favorite was the croutons) and two peanut butter cups for dessert.

Gracie was a riot in the tub tonight. Who knew water could be splashed that far. This busy day lead to one tired girl. She fell asleep in record time tonight and seems very peaceful.

New words for the day: church, gross (she repeated mom on that one after I pulled her hand out of the toilet), french fries and beads.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie