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