Good Times with Gracie

It has been a crazy couple of weeks of fun and travel. There is nothing like 6 flights in 6 days. At least all flights were on-time or early. After a quick trip to Atlanta for work, I came back to go to the musical Wicked with Adam and his folks. This is the first musical I have seen three times and I will probably see it again. I can't wait for Gracie to see it as she gets older. Speaking of musicals, my mom and I headed to NYC Saturday for a long weekend of musical fun. We had such an wonderful time seeing Bye Bye Birdie with John Stamos, The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular, and Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher's one woman show. Around all the shows we were able to see the usual sights: Central Park, FAO Schwartz, 5th Ave, Grand Central, 30 Rock, Today show, NBC studio tour, China Town, Ground Zero, Times Square, and....we got some great advice from Sarah, our friend who was a chef in NYC, about a restaurant that was amazing! That night was fun since we went to a hole-in-the-wall bar my friend recommended that was actually an old opium house, then to another great bar that we had to be approved to enter and then to the Little Owl Restaurant that is in the building used as a reference for Monica's apartment in friends. Oh the fun! Here is a photo of us before the Rockette's show. It was good to get back and see my girlie though.

Gracie updates: We went to the zoo on Saturday and she is now really enjoying the animals though still prefers to watch the other kids. Here is a photo with her and the ducks that she loved to enjoy.

• Gracie calls any electronic item: remote, phone, etc. Dada. It is so funny.



• She is eating us out of house and home. Today she had a whole ham and cheese sandwich, 1/4c apple sauce, veggies, and juice. She is so hungry.



• Her favorite position to play in is squatting like in the photo below.

Today I was actually able to get a bow to finally stay in her hair. At least it stayed in long enough to get a great photo of her. You can barely see it here.

Here is the close-up that you can see her tooth, the lower left, with the second coming in now, the lower right:

Now we are getting ready for a weekend of family Thanksgiving fun. Wishing everyone a wonderful blessing Thanksgiving holiday.