The Weekend

Gracie had a good weekend, with the exception of some major diahhrea. She went from major constipation to major diahhrea in like three days. Getting her G.I. system balanced is not an easy task. She had a good appetite and felt fine otherwise.

On Friday night, Gracie got to see and talk to Aunt Cheryl via Skype. She enjoyed that. So did I.

On Saturday morning Gracie awoke at 3:00 a.m. and for the next two hours, her and I walked the floor and rocked in the rocking chair. She wanted to sleep, she tried to sleep, but it just didn't come easily. She fell asleep a little before 5:00 a.m., and then slept in til 7:30 a.m. We had a pretty lazy morning. In the afternoon she took an almost 2-1/2 hour nap. She slept in her bed for the first hour, then woke up and came and snuggled on the couch with me. Before I knew it she had fallen asleep on my lap and slept for a good 90 minutes. We did take an outing to Sam's club and Gracie especially enjoyed helping daddy push the flat bed cart. Then when it filled up, she enjoyed sitting on the flat bed cart and letting daddy push her. I held her hand the whole time so she wouldn't fall off.

On Sunday, we just stayed home and played for the most part. Gracie was very helpful all day and was in a very good mood. Her verbal skills continue to blossom and it's a real treat to have her be able to verbalize the majority of her wants and needs. She is getting better at listening to reasoning rather than having a falldown meltdown tantrum whenever she doesn't get what she wants. We continue to work on that though. We are still using timeouts for biting, but those are happening less frequently as well.

Gracie had a good nights sleep, although she got to bed later than usual last night, so did not want to wake up this morning. It was funny to watch her on the way to daycare this morning through the rearview mirror. She was learning how to make faces with her mouth and was practicing that. Not a sound out of her....just from one face to another.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie