twenty

dear grace,
oh boy (girl)! your two lower teeth are definately coming in! you are officially four months old and some weeks. on friday you get your second set of shots and i am not excited for that... you are rolling over in both directions now and you love to stand when we hold your hands. you like to sit on the couch with us and grab your little toes to try to eat em. your most impressive feat is trying to sit up by yourself and trying desperately to crawl! we put you on your tummy and call to you and between me and dad you get very excited and try your hardest to kick kick kick and swim swim with your arms. once you make contact we'll have liftoff! you don't like rice cereals yet and that's okay because we can wait! you love to try to suck-gnaw on anything you can get to your mouth especially my hands and your hands. when you see dad come home you light up and you cry if he doesnt come say hello. you like to reach out and touch my face and sometimes that hurts (you love to scratch!) but you are getting more gentle. you still love bath time except you are almost getting too big for your whale tub?! so the other day i tried to sit you in your bumbo in the tub instead and... you weren't fat enough so the bumbo floated in the water and you were sort of confused. then i just ended up sitting you up in the tub and you liked that much better. you are talkative when you are tired (why, hello you are def. MY daughter) and you love your naps. when i can get you to take them. we might have to move out of the cherapple house which will be so sad because that means you'll never remember the nursery i made you! but that's okay. someday we can get a big house and i'll make you a cuter one. promise. dad is applying for officer school and while he is away next year we might go live with graham and poppop! you giggle a little when i tickle your neck and when you are tired and you think i'm funny. i love you to death. every time you wake up i sing "good morning to youuuuuuu preeettttyyy giiirrrlll!" and you smile and wiggle to try to get out of your sleep sack. dad says you smell like asparagus and i think you smell like delicious baby smell. you are both always hungry. you grab at things with your toes and you arch towards people you want to hold you. you recognize your grandma elaine and me and your dad and your aunt alison and your cousins bryson and abigail. you love them and they LOVE you. they get real close to your face and say HELLO GRACEELAINE! and you smile real big because those are your size people. you may or may not be catching your first cold. all i know is you've been especially cranky and that could be your teethies. i cant wait someday to give this to you. i think, we are all very revealing as children- and it would have been cool to read what i did and thought and acted when i was a little one.
i love you dearly,
mom