9 Months & still toothless

The big changes this month are related to movement (mouth, body...).

• Gracie loves to clap for anything. Her favorites are Patty cake, saying "yeah", and when she is happily squealing.


• This week she even started giving kisses on the cheek. Let me say if she keeps this up she won't have a boyfriend for awhile...which we are okay with. Her kisses are big open mouth smacks on the cheek.


• She has also learned to make some funny faces from her parents. There is a new "Cheesy" smile she likes to give people as well as her head tilt that is her being "Cute."


• Faces, jewelry, glasses, and anything within arm's reach is a wonderful toy in Gracie's eyes.


• She moves all around. When she sees something she wants, she tries to move towards it and ends up moving backwards. Getting her legs under the couch leads to many squawks.


• She is starting to feed herself puffs, peas, and other small food items. It is fun to watch her try to get it in her mouth by all different means. Less and less is ending-up in her chair. Even without her teeth she is trying other foods.


• Now that she knows she can move more she is starting to explore standing around. Very soon I foresee cruising.


• To make Gracie even more happy you can give her two options...one, any two objects that make a fun noise when they are banged together and two, a sticker or name tag that is sticky between her fingers.

This past week we were busy getting things ready for the Peters 40th wedding anniversary luau. Gracie was a party animal and was awake until 10:30. She is just our social butterfly and loved to celebrate such a special day with her Grandma and Papa. Adam's first Father's day included breakfast in bed, gifts from Gracie, church, lunch at Cafe Prague on their patio, and then time at home. Gracie loved spending the day with her Daddy. Her 9 month appointment is on Thursday and we will update everyone soon.

Place your bets

Look at me, I love to pull items apart over my head. I want to be She-ra!

After a long week of preparing for Hillary's visit and my trip to LA, I am finally getting around to updating the blog. It was so wonderful to have Hillary come to visit and take a couple days to be with Gracie. The time is so special and she continues to focus on moving. It seems like after a light turned on she is now ready to get moving and is starting to get frustrated because she can't keep-up with her buddies. Here is a photo to show you who close she is to moving forward since she has mastered moving backwards.

I tell you this is going to be short, she has learned to clap and loves to clap with anyone says yeah. Tomorrow she will be 9 months and I can't believe it! Until this weekend's 9month update, after the party and celebrating Adam's first official Father's day!

Hair raising week

This week was a bit of a blur for everyone. I went on a quick business trip to Atlanta leaving Adam and Gracie to fend for themselves. They enjoyed the time together and Gracie was pretty good for Daddy. I think she continues to be teething and we thought we would throw some diaper rash in for the fun too. Sunday night was a little hard, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Atlanta was good though I broke a sweat running to catch my plane home. It was a closer call then I prefer. Once home we focused on the garage sale we had been talking about for months. After prep on Thursday night , we were in business with over 6 tables of stuff to sell on Friday. Gracie enjoyed the time outside and being with us while we made about $10 in the first 4 hours and that was mostly my Dad's stuff. Needless to say, the garage sale was a bust other then organizing the garage while we waited for shoppers. Note to self, never have a garage sale at our house again. Living almost in Oklahoma doesn't allow for many Denver shoppers. Here is our little sales girl watching all of us put the items in the garage to be donated.

Gracie highlights: She is getting more hair, and the reason for the photo below. It is almost an Alfalfa / Mohawk look. The hair is coming in and making her look adorable. Now that she has seen more of her buddies work on crawling she is starting to move. There is going to be no stopping her soon. She rolls, moves, and pushes herself all over. Now she really likes to be standing too. Adam is starting to look into the baby gates.

This weekend I am heading to LA with Hill and visiting Jessica for her baby shower. It will be my first weekend away from the lady and I am going to miss her!! At least I am taking Thursday and Friday off to be with her and Hill. Wishing everyone a wonderful week! Here is also an adorable photo of our little lady, with her Pinkie (the Black Dog blanket from Adam's Aunt Suzie and Uncle Hal), in our big bed!!

Work weekend

This weekend we were so busy with house work. How is there always something that needs to get done? There were a couple breaks between the prep for a garage sale next weekend, fixing the sprinklers, running errands... Saturday night was Baylor's 1st birthday celebration, which Gracie enjoyed time with her neighbor boyfriend. Sunday we had a BBQ for our friend's the Chous. Grace was able to see Mel and Elijah again but her joy came from her birthday buddy George. They even started talking to each other a bit. Grace in a party dress.

Big changes for Gracie this week:

She now can "click" her tongue, which she loves to do and will make sure she still can right after she wakes in the morning.

She rolled onto her belly when sleeping and for some reason not knowing how to get herself back. Like George, once they are in the crib all usual activity is off and they don't know how to move as usual.

She starts to share and steal. This morning she tried to share her pacifier with Adam and kept stealing George's toys yesterday.

She, I think, has learned to try and kiss people. Her kiss is open mouth slobber love that is wonderful.

She loves ice cream of any kind. We have had it a couple times the past couple weeks and last night she understood if she squawked we might give her more. Here is photographic proof she loved ice cream since she wouldn't let go of the spoon! (it is clear and hard to see)

Finally, she is shy and cuddly. She loves to turn her head to the side and smile at people. She is turning her head at Baylor.

We love our cutie and it is going to be hard to be away from her in Atlanta for two days. I guess I wills survive with photos and calls.