Gracie's last day at our beloved daycare was Friday. I think it will be a tough transition for her. She kept asking for her daycare mom all weekend. This morning she knew she was going to a new daycare and she would be riding a new bus. She was very sullen all morning and even bit her dad. We were late getting out of the house, she was super grumpy, and I had a rock in the pit of my stomach. As we pulled into the new daycare center, Gracie remembered it and started clapping. She went to hold her teacher's hand and got a little upset with me when I wanted a kiss goodbye. I think she thought I was going to take her away. So the drop off went beautifully. I'm still waiting to hear how the bus transition went. I really like her teacher at the new center, she even told me she went to the library and checked out some books to learn about Gracie's medical issues. How cool is that!
On Friday afternoon, Gracie's teacher from school came for a visit. Gracie is doing very well and we'll increase her preschool attendance from three to four mornings a week starting in January. Gracie enjoys school, but is very much an observer. She takes it all in and needs to sometimes be encouraged to participate. She is becoming much more verbal at school, but her teacher did get to see Gracie in action as to how verbal she is at home. It was no surprise to us to find out that she is very unmotivated when it comes to anything in the Occupational Therapy category.
On Saturday we had a beautiful snowfall and the temps were very mild, so we bundled Gracie up in her boots, coats, snow pants, mittens, hats, scarves, etc., etc. and headed outside to enjoy it. She loved it! She is doing so good walking in the snow. The ice is still tough for her, she just can't recover once she starts to slip and ended up on her butt a couple of times. We were out for about 90 minutes and she did not want to come in. On Sunday we went out again and played in the snow some more. Jeff also pulled Gracie in the sled and that was a big hit. Our biggest cold weather challenge is mittens. Gracie has huge hands so it's hard to get her hands in mittens and if we get mittens with too loose of tops, they fall right off. She just doesn't understand how to keep the mittens on. We just put an order in for some zip up mittens, I hope these take care of that challenge.
We also put up our Christmas tree this weekend with the lights. We still need to put the ornaments on it. Gracie loves having the tree up and when we first plugged in the lights she exclamed: "It looks beautiful!" I'm enjoying winter and the holidays this year as Gracie gets so excited about it all. I just love that.
Have a great week.
Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie
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