My Beautiful Girl

A wonderful friend of mine took Gracie's 6 month pictures and she did a fabulous job. This past weekend Tracey came to the house and we had pictures taken around the house and a lot at the park. Gracie was such a trooper and did a great job just being her joyful self. She was a little more serious while at the park. She was so amused by all of her new souroundings that we had a hard time getting her to smile and not be so serious. But even with some of the serious faces we still got a lot of great shots. I have not even seen all of them yet but she sent me a few to see how they turned out, wonderful. Tracey, thank you and I am excited to be able to work along side of you. You are a great teacher.

Enjoy the pictures!

Christmas in May

Each night I sing my Gracie to sleep while rocking her. Some nights Gracie seems not to want the singing and rather have the silence and other nights she fights going to sleep. Honestly, it is not much of a fight because she always gives into the sleep after 5 minutes. I have a couple of songs that I always sing to her but sometimes I try to mix it up. This week a new song popped into my mind, Judy Garland’s, Have Your Self a Merry Little Christmas from Meet Me in St Louis. Yes, that is right Christmas songs in May. Well, it was a hit. Gracie was singing a long while playing with her hair so I just kept singing it over and over. Now you know when I say singing that I did not understand the words but it was beautiful to be, I loved it. So, every night this week I have sang it just to her here sing and have added in a couple other Christmas songs.

Just thought I would share one of the week highlights

My Baby Girl is 6 Months

My baby girl is 6 months. Wow, time goes so quickly. It is so strange to think at this time last year I was pregnant, I did not know what I was having and we were worried about the cyst. Now I have this beautiful little girl who just lights up our world. She has been so much fun. She is talking, well jibber jabber that sounds wonderful. She sounds like she says dadada all the time. Last night I tried to tape her talking and she freezes and just stares at the camera. When Troy got home last night he went to say hit to her and she starts talking up a storm with daddda and telling him her day adventures. We love her stories even when we have no idea what she is try to say. She yells at her toys and bangs them around. Her personality is shinning right threw. Example she will roll over but does not seem to enjoy it as much as I would like so we put her on her tummy often and she will roll her self back on to her back. Or if she is on her back she will roll her bottom half of her body over but will leave her head facing up, Troy then will give her a nudge to help go the rest of the way and she straightens her back right up and looks at him as to say "no daddy, I do it by myself". She hates wearing socks, the ladies at daycare think it is so funny that she kicks them off or will pull them off. She loves all of her fruits and veggies. She LOVES being outside more then anything. Taking her for a walk to help her fall a sleep does not work she will keep those eyes open the whole time. Taking in everything once I get home she is out. She will sit on the porch and just watch us in the yard. She loves the cars, the noises from the chirping birds and the dogs barking. Having her makes you stop and appreciate how beautiful everything is. You look at your world threw different eyes. Gracie had been teething so we are expecting to see a tooth her in the next month. She will chew on anything she can get her hands on. I know everyone has a favorite stage but I can not pick one I love them all. I loved her being helpless at the beginning and how much she needed me. I love that now she is learning so much and changing so much everyday. Having her is just an amazing blessing.

Enjoy the pictures and video. Gracie is getting 6 month pictures this weekend so those will be up soon.

Some 5 month pictures & Easter

I thought you may enjoy some more pictures of Gracie and her Easter pictures. Enjoy!

Gracie is 5 Month

Yeap that is right Gracie is now 5 months. We have been feeding her cereal which she loves and seems not to be able to get enough of. Last weekend we started with peas, which she loves! I was so proud of her, especially since her parents won't eat them at all but shhhh, we do not need to tell her that. She jabbers away and uses her high pitch vocals to get our attention if we are not looking. She also seems to love anything that has a face. No matter the animal she loves it, mainly to stick in her mouth and then to whip it around in the air, then to bang it on the floor. She is quit abusive to her little friends right now which is so funny. And of course everything she does we think is spectacular, which is just how it should be. She is very much a morning person. She loves talking and rolling on to her side. You put her in bed one way and by morning she has moved herself around. I love putting her into the saucer at the daycare. She loves hitting all the little objects that are on it. She is just a really good baby. No complaints!

Ode to the Clinton Family

So, my good friend Lily recently posted a blog about farts, yes I said farts. As I responded to her blog I realized I had a lot to say, so this goes out to my friend Lily and to those who understand. Any of you that have boys in your family or just know my husband know that farting is just what happens, it just happens. I too think this is very funny, TBS laugh it up!! I laughed out load as I read her blog. I grew up in a family with 3 boys where the bodily function was laughed at and joked about always. Not that my mother did not try to stop it but it never happened. The loud laughter was always loader then her efforts. I think the only time that we were cautious was when Grandma Baugh was visiting and she would scowl at us and tell us we should call it pass gas with a little accent that made her sound like she just flew in from London. I also had a few girl friends that had fart contest with there brothers, you know who you are!! Then I got married and if you know Troy or his brothers, it is normal, well as normal as it can be. They end up laughing so hard they look like they are crying and I do know on a few occasions in smith center, doors had to be opened and people ran screaming from the house in town. You know of the event of which I speak. It is a normal function in my house and you are lucky if you are laughing because most of the time you are just passed out on the floor. You would think having a girl would change all that but Gracie has her father’s problem. Ok, so it maybe just a baby thing and hopefully she grows out of it but if not there will be no worries were the boys are concerned. If I do have all girls then I will try to pass on that the fart should be looked down upon, but I doubt that this will happen considering all the uncles she has.

March

Sorry, I have not posted any pictures for a while. Things have been busy. Gracie is doing great, she is growing fast and always doing new things. Our latest is eating cereal. She has done so good with it and has been learning how to eat actually eat it. In that discovery she has found that she has a tongue and now sticks it out all the time. You will also see her with a little doll we call suzzie. I was at Target looking around and picked it up to see if she liked it and decided I would bring it home. She loves that thing. It is hilarious she just holds it, tries to eat its hair and screams at it. It is so funny.

The past two months have been filled with friends. I had a group of girls come visit in February and it was so much fun to see them, some I had not seen in years. It is always nice to catch up. Then in March I got to visit with some more of my girl friends and it happens we all have daughters so we took quite a few pictures of them together, this consisted of us laughing histerically at them being together. It has been such a blessing to be able to meet up with these girls, I should say women. It is always nice to catch up and to chat an afternoon away. I never get old of the wonderful sound of chatty girl friends. And it is always a blessing to be able to compare notes with other moms and to see my friends I grew up with as parents, I love it and enjoy being able to be apart of this part of there life.