Dear grace,
Today you bumped into everything. You crawled into your bedroom door, into your crib bars and fell down on stair at grandma Elaine's house. I was a tough day for you, bu you were a champion. You bit through your lip and cried for maybe forty seconds.
You didn't get a morning nap bacause we were playing and having so much fun at grandmas, I've been sewing you a quiet book and I hope you like it. I'm not much talent with the needle or machine, but I'm trying my best to create the fantastic ideas in my brain onto felt and buttons and ribbons and glue.
Tis evening you were adorable, we rocked in your rocking chair and I sang to you, you laid your little head against my chest and hummed along, letting me play itch your curly hairs and rubbing your back. Every once in a while you would turn your cheek and look up at me and smile. I i stopped singing you would sit up and look at me and make some noises to remind me that I needed to keep singing please. You are so very sweet. I can't wait until of can tell me all the things you are trying to say now. You are standing by yourself but you don't know it yet, and you crawl so fast! We got you a little Easter basket that is shaped like a Duckie, you put it on your head and our feet and hands were a blur you were so excited.
I love you so much my little girl
Mom
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
twenty nine
dear grace,
you are incredible. not new news. you have learned to clap, and sing to yourself, you stand on your own but you dont know it and then when you see what you're doing you fall over. you are such a happy girl, but teething is starting to be pretty painful. yesterday you kind of whimpered all day. it could have been you were tired. we've stopped giving you a bottle in bed because we looked up pictures of bottle rot on baby's teeths and it's GROSS! you've done really well at just falling asleep on your own. we are both so in love with you. you are amazing. you love bath time and you've begun trying to drink the bathwater. the vacuum intrigues you, and the broom is enchanting to you. you bobble your head around like you are dancing whenever music comes on, and i think it's because i sing to you and shake my head as i sing. your dad is finishing up his last semester in college and he is working very hard. i was looking for a job as a cake decorator but it seems like nobody is hiring and i want to make sure if i do get a job it's one that i absolutely thrive creatively in, because i wouldn't settle for anything less to be apart from you for one single minute. if i could get a job as a florist again that would be the very best. we aren't sure if we will be staying in orem for the summer, it is lovely here during the spring and summer and we always go to the sierra water park and that would be so much fun with you now, but i'd like to move to san diego so we can be near my family too! we go to the park every once in a while and you still arent sure about the swings or the playground but you love the slide and you love watching us shoot basketball hoops. we are both pretty awful, but you think it's funny and you sit in our cheap little foldup stroller so patiently and giggle. you are almost impossible to change, you flip over so fast and poo goes everywhere. we have to hold you down with our legs while we change you and you hate that. you have such a devious sweet nature. you love your daddy, and you startle easily. you sleep in a little kidney bean shape, with your knees under you and your bum in the air and your arms flung back with your hands facing up. this morning i walked in on you waking up and you didn't see me. you were facing the wall, and looking at your hands, moving them like they were asleep and just waking up too. and they probably were asleep after how you position them at night. you were just talking to yourself, sweet little coos. you aren't super talkative, but you make sounds and are trying out your voice more and more. you laugh in delight at small things, a toy you are excited about or if you hear us laughing you laugh too to join in on the fun. you love to facetime and pull off the keyboard keys. you put things on your head (try to) and you hold the phone up to the side of your head. you havesix teeth and you bite everything and everyone! you are very ticklish on your neck but you dont like to be tickled too much especially if you are sleepy. i love you my little sweetheart.
love
mom
you are incredible. not new news. you have learned to clap, and sing to yourself, you stand on your own but you dont know it and then when you see what you're doing you fall over. you are such a happy girl, but teething is starting to be pretty painful. yesterday you kind of whimpered all day. it could have been you were tired. we've stopped giving you a bottle in bed because we looked up pictures of bottle rot on baby's teeths and it's GROSS! you've done really well at just falling asleep on your own. we are both so in love with you. you are amazing. you love bath time and you've begun trying to drink the bathwater. the vacuum intrigues you, and the broom is enchanting to you. you bobble your head around like you are dancing whenever music comes on, and i think it's because i sing to you and shake my head as i sing. your dad is finishing up his last semester in college and he is working very hard. i was looking for a job as a cake decorator but it seems like nobody is hiring and i want to make sure if i do get a job it's one that i absolutely thrive creatively in, because i wouldn't settle for anything less to be apart from you for one single minute. if i could get a job as a florist again that would be the very best. we aren't sure if we will be staying in orem for the summer, it is lovely here during the spring and summer and we always go to the sierra water park and that would be so much fun with you now, but i'd like to move to san diego so we can be near my family too! we go to the park every once in a while and you still arent sure about the swings or the playground but you love the slide and you love watching us shoot basketball hoops. we are both pretty awful, but you think it's funny and you sit in our cheap little foldup stroller so patiently and giggle. you are almost impossible to change, you flip over so fast and poo goes everywhere. we have to hold you down with our legs while we change you and you hate that. you have such a devious sweet nature. you love your daddy, and you startle easily. you sleep in a little kidney bean shape, with your knees under you and your bum in the air and your arms flung back with your hands facing up. this morning i walked in on you waking up and you didn't see me. you were facing the wall, and looking at your hands, moving them like they were asleep and just waking up too. and they probably were asleep after how you position them at night. you were just talking to yourself, sweet little coos. you aren't super talkative, but you make sounds and are trying out your voice more and more. you laugh in delight at small things, a toy you are excited about or if you hear us laughing you laugh too to join in on the fun. you love to facetime and pull off the keyboard keys. you put things on your head (try to) and you hold the phone up to the side of your head. you havesix teeth and you bite everything and everyone! you are very ticklish on your neck but you dont like to be tickled too much especially if you are sleepy. i love you my little sweetheart.
love
mom
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
twenty eight
dear grace
yOU ARE NINE MONTHS! you are biting everything. the other day i came into the kitchen because i could hear a crunching noise and you were there under the kitchen chair gnawing at one of the rungs like a little beaver. you are moving everywhere and eating everything. you crawl so fast and you are very very ticklish. you are a delight. you sing/talk to yourself in the mornings in your crib and it's a wonderful way to wake up hearing you over the baby monitor. you can stand by yourself but you wont, instead you travel from furniture to furniture standing and moving sideways holding on. sometimes you forget to hold on and plop down on your bottom. you hate to be on your back you have to always be on the move, so we've had to forgo the changing table and put you on the ground with our legs over you so you don't flip around while we change your bum. you take two naps a day. you love bathtime still and are becoming slowly comfortable laying down in the tub on your back but only briefly. you have learned how to wiggle your head nod back and forth and side to side and you look like a wriggly fish. you have also learned how to sound like a frog and you like to make that sound as you crawl around. it is really cute when you discover something you know you like and you giggle out loud. you have had a lot of ear infections and i worry you'll have to get tubes put in, but we'll wait and see- it might just be that youare growing a ton of teeth (you have FIVE) and it bothers your ears. a bottle is an inconvenience unless you are going to sleep- you try to eat while you move around everywhere! you are a happy healthy baby girl and we love you.
love
mom
yOU ARE NINE MONTHS! you are biting everything. the other day i came into the kitchen because i could hear a crunching noise and you were there under the kitchen chair gnawing at one of the rungs like a little beaver. you are moving everywhere and eating everything. you crawl so fast and you are very very ticklish. you are a delight. you sing/talk to yourself in the mornings in your crib and it's a wonderful way to wake up hearing you over the baby monitor. you can stand by yourself but you wont, instead you travel from furniture to furniture standing and moving sideways holding on. sometimes you forget to hold on and plop down on your bottom. you hate to be on your back you have to always be on the move, so we've had to forgo the changing table and put you on the ground with our legs over you so you don't flip around while we change your bum. you take two naps a day. you love bathtime still and are becoming slowly comfortable laying down in the tub on your back but only briefly. you have learned how to wiggle your head nod back and forth and side to side and you look like a wriggly fish. you have also learned how to sound like a frog and you like to make that sound as you crawl around. it is really cute when you discover something you know you like and you giggle out loud. you have had a lot of ear infections and i worry you'll have to get tubes put in, but we'll wait and see- it might just be that youare growing a ton of teeth (you have FIVE) and it bothers your ears. a bottle is an inconvenience unless you are going to sleep- you try to eat while you move around everywhere! you are a happy healthy baby girl and we love you.
love
mom
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
twenty seven
GRACE, you are on the move! you army crawl to get what you'd like and if you don't feel up to it you yell.
it's delightful.
some other happy learnings: you have begun to try to sing along with me and it comes out blahblah bah bah gah gah gah dah dah but it is wonderful.
you like to hit things together to make noise when there is music of any kind, and you are just beginning to splash in the tub.
you are pulling yourself up on things (or trying to rather) and it's been causing all sorts of bumps and bruises for you, even if i'm right there- you'll take a nose dive into the carpet or the table and look back at me like "how could you let that happen?!"
you are mastering the sippy cup, you'd rather throw it around than drink out of it and you loooove finger foods. especially pulled pork with bbq sauce. you suck it in and lick your fingers of all the sauce.
on saturday last week you woke up with a bloody ear so i took you to the doctors and he said your EARDRUM had burst!!!! i just about screamed. you didn't complain at all, so i had no idea. i thought you had just scratched your ear and made it bleed! (which you had done before and i took you to the doc and he said you were just congested)
anyhow, you are now on strawberry amoxicillin but you seem to be feeling just fine, no crying no fussiness, you are a trooper.
AND your first top tooth is coming in! (the right one facing you) (your left one) all this is happening in one week!
you are a champion baby.
you are so smiley and you hate being left alone. you like to play with the fridge letter magnets and the xylaphone. your favorite thing to do is get into trouble.
i looked over at you the other day and somehow you had gotten into a box of tissues and was pulling them out and ripping them up into tiny tiny pieces all over yourself.
you looked like a little snowman.
you are taking naps in your crib finally! so i dont have to worry about you falling out of bed or anything.
on sunday you were introduced to your very first baby doll (actually it was your cousin bella's and she left it at grandmas)
you were in LOVE with her. you would pat her head and squeeel and hug her and touch her face. it's amazing how i can already see you will be such a wonderful mom (if the time comes for you)
you also have developed a love for hair. you think my hair is so funny. i tickle your face with it and you pull and pull and then try to feed it to me.
you are such a sweet baby. your hair is getting so long and you are wearing 18 month and 9 month old clothes. you just turned 8 months on sunday.
your favorite thing to do in church is stand on the pew and look back at everybody, especially the babies.
you are not shy about burping or farting. which i find particularly hilarious. (i'll grow up before you i promise)
i love you little girl, it is a wonder to watch you discover this world for yourself.
love,
mom
it's delightful.
some other happy learnings: you have begun to try to sing along with me and it comes out blahblah bah bah gah gah gah dah dah but it is wonderful.
you like to hit things together to make noise when there is music of any kind, and you are just beginning to splash in the tub.
you are pulling yourself up on things (or trying to rather) and it's been causing all sorts of bumps and bruises for you, even if i'm right there- you'll take a nose dive into the carpet or the table and look back at me like "how could you let that happen?!"
you are mastering the sippy cup, you'd rather throw it around than drink out of it and you loooove finger foods. especially pulled pork with bbq sauce. you suck it in and lick your fingers of all the sauce.
on saturday last week you woke up with a bloody ear so i took you to the doctors and he said your EARDRUM had burst!!!! i just about screamed. you didn't complain at all, so i had no idea. i thought you had just scratched your ear and made it bleed! (which you had done before and i took you to the doc and he said you were just congested)
anyhow, you are now on strawberry amoxicillin but you seem to be feeling just fine, no crying no fussiness, you are a trooper.
AND your first top tooth is coming in! (the right one facing you) (your left one) all this is happening in one week!
you are a champion baby.
you are so smiley and you hate being left alone. you like to play with the fridge letter magnets and the xylaphone. your favorite thing to do is get into trouble.
i looked over at you the other day and somehow you had gotten into a box of tissues and was pulling them out and ripping them up into tiny tiny pieces all over yourself.
you looked like a little snowman.
you are taking naps in your crib finally! so i dont have to worry about you falling out of bed or anything.
on sunday you were introduced to your very first baby doll (actually it was your cousin bella's and she left it at grandmas)
you were in LOVE with her. you would pat her head and squeeel and hug her and touch her face. it's amazing how i can already see you will be such a wonderful mom (if the time comes for you)
you also have developed a love for hair. you think my hair is so funny. i tickle your face with it and you pull and pull and then try to feed it to me.
you are such a sweet baby. your hair is getting so long and you are wearing 18 month and 9 month old clothes. you just turned 8 months on sunday.
your favorite thing to do in church is stand on the pew and look back at everybody, especially the babies.
you are not shy about burping or farting. which i find particularly hilarious. (i'll grow up before you i promise)
i love you little girl, it is a wonder to watch you discover this world for yourself.
love,
mom
Thursday, January 19, 2012
twenty six?
dear grace,
do i need to say you are growing too fast? on the 17th of january you began army crawling, saying 'ma ma ma' AND sat up by yourself. you were pleasantly surprised by it too. you also have problems with me going out of your line of vision and promptly begin to yell. we don't like that development too much but i'm going to take it as a compliment. you are truly inconsolable without your mother. you also yell in between bites of food, demanding MORE MORE MORE! with the trial of new ffood comes the sad discovery that you get diaper rash with some solid foods more than others. you are learning how to pinch your pointer and thumb finger together, so you pick up small pieces of food and put them in your mouth- but you don't know to let GO of the food yet so you pull your hand back out with the food still in it and look very confused. you raise your eyebrows up and down and make wonderful expressions. you take your vitamins without complaint and the only thing you don't like is getting your nose sucked out before bedtime. me blowing my nose terrifies you, you startle and then you faceplant trying to crawl to me as fast as you can. you aren't sure about the vacuum cleaner anymore... and the hairdryer is confusing. since you have become more aware of your surroundings you are WIGGLY OH MY GOODNESS. you are never NEVER still. you twist and turn and bounce and try to pull yourself up on EVERYTHING. you can't yet, thank goodness but it wont be long. i had a melt down the other day and cried and you just pulled on my leg until i lifted you up and then you looked straight into my face very seriously and stuck your forehead against mine. you did this over and over again until i stopped crying. it was very sweet.
well darling, you are learning a lot and doing wonderfully at it. i love to watch you. if i had endless space in the world i would want to record every second of your life and replay it over and over again. i don't want to forget any part of you.
you've been my only/very best friend these days gracie. that's a big burden for a little 8 month old (almost) to carry.
i love you.
mom
do i need to say you are growing too fast? on the 17th of january you began army crawling, saying 'ma ma ma' AND sat up by yourself. you were pleasantly surprised by it too. you also have problems with me going out of your line of vision and promptly begin to yell. we don't like that development too much but i'm going to take it as a compliment. you are truly inconsolable without your mother. you also yell in between bites of food, demanding MORE MORE MORE! with the trial of new ffood comes the sad discovery that you get diaper rash with some solid foods more than others. you are learning how to pinch your pointer and thumb finger together, so you pick up small pieces of food and put them in your mouth- but you don't know to let GO of the food yet so you pull your hand back out with the food still in it and look very confused. you raise your eyebrows up and down and make wonderful expressions. you take your vitamins without complaint and the only thing you don't like is getting your nose sucked out before bedtime. me blowing my nose terrifies you, you startle and then you faceplant trying to crawl to me as fast as you can. you aren't sure about the vacuum cleaner anymore... and the hairdryer is confusing. since you have become more aware of your surroundings you are WIGGLY OH MY GOODNESS. you are never NEVER still. you twist and turn and bounce and try to pull yourself up on EVERYTHING. you can't yet, thank goodness but it wont be long. i had a melt down the other day and cried and you just pulled on my leg until i lifted you up and then you looked straight into my face very seriously and stuck your forehead against mine. you did this over and over again until i stopped crying. it was very sweet.
well darling, you are learning a lot and doing wonderfully at it. i love to watch you. if i had endless space in the world i would want to record every second of your life and replay it over and over again. i don't want to forget any part of you.
you've been my only/very best friend these days gracie. that's a big burden for a little 8 month old (almost) to carry.
i love you.
mom
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
twenty five
dear grace,
I know it sounds repetitive but you are growing too fast. I can hardly keep up with all you are learning and trying to do each day but I'll try hard to write some of your newest tricks.
You make a kissy face at everyone. you tilt your chin up and stick out those lips for a pucker and kind of make me die inside because you are adorable. i tell you to save your kisses but you are pretty persistent with your loving and free. you are learning all sorts of other fun things with your facial expressions like putting your eyebrows up, or just sticking your tongue out and blowing bubbles. you smile constantly and are a happy baby in general.
you are just an easy wonderful go lucky baby, and we feel very lucky to have you bless our lives every single day.
your laugh is so sweet and always sudden and random. i'm still standing on my head trying to get you to giggle and i'm surprised by what actually makes you laugh!
you are trying very hard to crawl, and i'm sorry i'm not giving you more opportunities, but i like to hold you.
you still stick your arms straight out and wave your hands around in the air whenever you are feeling strong emotions about something. usually when you are nervous or excited. i call them hummingbird hands, they move so fast.
merry first christmas and new years! you are seven months, and gaining independence fast. you will eat pretty much anything we let you, which is why you love grandpa francis because he really will sneak you anything...
it was special to see you meet my side of the family since they are farther away from where we live than brandon's side. you didn't fuss at all the people, i think you really enjoyed being surrounded by lots of loved ones. (i dont blame you, they are sort of awesome) (but i'm biased).
grandma francis put you to sleep almost everynight while we were there and you slept pretty good in your little pink and brown pack and play.
aunt sarah and uncle chris gave you a beautiful cream dress and tights and a hat and mittens.
grandpa and grandma spoiled you with lots of toys
and mom and dad got you a doctor's kit because they are awesome. and i'm afraid we are having as much fun with it as you are.
you've started to mimic sounds and if you are eating and i sing to you you try to sing back while eating.
it's the sweetest thing. ever.
your hair is still very curly on top and long only pretty much on the top. aunt lachelle says your hair is very hip in new york right now. i'm taking full credit.
uncle geoffrey and you bonded over the break, at first he was nervous around you because nobody has shown him how to hold a baby! so i showed him and then he would take you whenever he could. he kept asking you "why are you SO CUTE?!" the whole holiday.
dad kept saying "what child is this?!" in geoff's ron burgendy accent.
overall it was an awesome break.
advice for the future: don't ever be afraid to ask for help. and being afraid of things is usually worse than going out and doing what you're afraid of. and love really does conquer all, so don't take the easy way out. i'm not sure why that took me so long to really understand.
i love you.
out conquering all,
mom
I know it sounds repetitive but you are growing too fast. I can hardly keep up with all you are learning and trying to do each day but I'll try hard to write some of your newest tricks.
You make a kissy face at everyone. you tilt your chin up and stick out those lips for a pucker and kind of make me die inside because you are adorable. i tell you to save your kisses but you are pretty persistent with your loving and free. you are learning all sorts of other fun things with your facial expressions like putting your eyebrows up, or just sticking your tongue out and blowing bubbles. you smile constantly and are a happy baby in general.
you are just an easy wonderful go lucky baby, and we feel very lucky to have you bless our lives every single day.
your laugh is so sweet and always sudden and random. i'm still standing on my head trying to get you to giggle and i'm surprised by what actually makes you laugh!
you are trying very hard to crawl, and i'm sorry i'm not giving you more opportunities, but i like to hold you.
you still stick your arms straight out and wave your hands around in the air whenever you are feeling strong emotions about something. usually when you are nervous or excited. i call them hummingbird hands, they move so fast.
merry first christmas and new years! you are seven months, and gaining independence fast. you will eat pretty much anything we let you, which is why you love grandpa francis because he really will sneak you anything...
it was special to see you meet my side of the family since they are farther away from where we live than brandon's side. you didn't fuss at all the people, i think you really enjoyed being surrounded by lots of loved ones. (i dont blame you, they are sort of awesome) (but i'm biased).
grandma francis put you to sleep almost everynight while we were there and you slept pretty good in your little pink and brown pack and play.
aunt sarah and uncle chris gave you a beautiful cream dress and tights and a hat and mittens.
grandpa and grandma spoiled you with lots of toys
and mom and dad got you a doctor's kit because they are awesome. and i'm afraid we are having as much fun with it as you are.
you've started to mimic sounds and if you are eating and i sing to you you try to sing back while eating.
it's the sweetest thing. ever.
your hair is still very curly on top and long only pretty much on the top. aunt lachelle says your hair is very hip in new york right now. i'm taking full credit.
uncle geoffrey and you bonded over the break, at first he was nervous around you because nobody has shown him how to hold a baby! so i showed him and then he would take you whenever he could. he kept asking you "why are you SO CUTE?!" the whole holiday.
dad kept saying "what child is this?!" in geoff's ron burgendy accent.
overall it was an awesome break.
advice for the future: don't ever be afraid to ask for help. and being afraid of things is usually worse than going out and doing what you're afraid of. and love really does conquer all, so don't take the easy way out. i'm not sure why that took me so long to really understand.
i love you.
out conquering all,
mom
Friday, December 2, 2011
twenty four
dear grace,
you are getting so big! you like to look around when you are playing sitting up all by yourself to make sure i'm nearby. you give the biggest ham-cheese smiles and you have figured out how to raise your eyebrows up and down. you are truly a sweetheart. you are content to play with a bag of wipes and make noise sitting in your highchair for hours. you startle easily (sorry that's from me) but you aren't afraid when you fall over or bonk your little head on anything. you like to be tickled, and you are trying to sit up from laying down and desperately want to be on the move. your first tooth is coming in! finally! on the bottom right (your left) and it's makin you crasy! everyone is so excited to see you for christmas this year! santa come early! you like to talk to yourself and make gurgle sounds. you like every food i've given you except spinach. but we'll fix that one of these days! you don't like to be alone and you hate the dark (unless you're asleep) you love walks and we take them almost everyday this week. we have to before it gets too cold! you think "mamamamama" means food. and you can say dadadadada and ba ba ba ba ba. it's tough not being able to just get up and walk around and get all the things you want- so you get frustrated, but i'm trying to be patient and let you learn the hard way to crawl on your own. you love your dad. he makes you smile.
we love you
mom
you are getting so big! you like to look around when you are playing sitting up all by yourself to make sure i'm nearby. you give the biggest ham-cheese smiles and you have figured out how to raise your eyebrows up and down. you are truly a sweetheart. you are content to play with a bag of wipes and make noise sitting in your highchair for hours. you startle easily (sorry that's from me) but you aren't afraid when you fall over or bonk your little head on anything. you like to be tickled, and you are trying to sit up from laying down and desperately want to be on the move. your first tooth is coming in! finally! on the bottom right (your left) and it's makin you crasy! everyone is so excited to see you for christmas this year! santa come early! you like to talk to yourself and make gurgle sounds. you like every food i've given you except spinach. but we'll fix that one of these days! you don't like to be alone and you hate the dark (unless you're asleep) you love walks and we take them almost everyday this week. we have to before it gets too cold! you think "mamamamama" means food. and you can say dadadadada and ba ba ba ba ba. it's tough not being able to just get up and walk around and get all the things you want- so you get frustrated, but i'm trying to be patient and let you learn the hard way to crawl on your own. you love your dad. he makes you smile.
we love you
mom
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