Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What's new with Grace

She still isn't walking, and as more and more moms announce that their child is walking it makes me sad. But she will do it when she's ready, I just wish I knew what was stopping her.

On the plus side, she has a HUGE vocabulary. That makes me feel good. She has so many new words that I can't remember them all. She has also become fascinated with counting and the alphabet. Her favorite numbers are 3, 8, and 9. And I think her favorite letters are M, O, and B.

Yesterday she was playing with these dolls that she got for Christmas from her NY grandma. The daddy doll was kissing the Grace doll "Muah! Muah!" and the mommy doll kept saying "come on, come on. Go, go." I guess I say that a lot, hee hee.


On Sunday I discovered two little teeth that she's been hiding from us. So now the count is 8! woo hoo! I think the doctor said she was 24lbs and 32.5 inches. According to the numbers she isn't getting much taller, but I swear she's bigger every time I look at her! Her hair is well past her shoulders now, and it's the envy of all.

She still doesn't understand that there is a brother coming soon, but she loves babies so that gives us hope. She has a new bed and spent the last two nights in it. She can't fall asleep in it yet, but seems to like it. The only setback is that she's a little afraid to climb out of it because she fell off our bed once. Then again, that means she won't be roaming the house while we're asleep. It's also a little too tall for her to get into herself, but I don't have to lift her as high as I do with the crib so I think it was worth the $$.


She's officially in nursery now, and we've moved up to Sunbeams. She loves Nursery and doesn't mind that we aren't there anymore, what a relief.

I guess that's all I have for now. Thanks for reading! and now know you why she is our Amazing Grace.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Baby checklist

Can you believe I'm 6 months along? We're down to 10 weeks before my goal due date (if I go longer that will be great!) so I figured I would see what I've done and what needs to be done in that time.
  1. get Grace a bed
  2. get a car seat
  3. get a pump (should be getting it soon, thanks Kir!)
  4. get some smaller boy clothes (we seem to have a lot of 12m)
  5. arrange Grace's room to accommodate new baby (a work in progress)
  6. arrange/find important baby stuff in Utah
  7. sell/get rid of a bunch of stuff (a work in progress)
  8. get grandpa here (make it to Utah safely)
  9. make/get blessing outfit
  10. take it easy
  11. get bed rail from friend
  12. get baby bath (either from friend or buy)
  13. clean stroller
  14. I'm sure there's more but this is all I could think of so far

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Jan 10 1986

I was born! I don't know all the details but I do know I was #4 out of 6 kids and I was born in Brigham City.

Monday, January 11, 2010

25 things to do before I turn 25

So I had a birthday yesterday so I am going to steal my friend's idea and write a resolution type list.

1. stop procrastinating
2. have a healthy baby (no sooner than 34 weeks!) he was 36
3. finish Grace's quilt
4. reach 70 puppets by July the count was 74
5. witness Grace take her first steps
6. get Grace to eat better
7. get myself to eat better
8. do more service
9. spend less time on the computer
10. spend more time on things that matter (family, church, friends)
11. keep up on housework better
12. make my apartment more "homey" working on my parents' house
13. upload some pictures from my childhood onto facebook
14. keep a baby journal for both kids (Grace already has one mostly full)
15. order more prints
16. get a family portrait
17. call family more often
18. be more active
19. recruit more sewing "students"
20. get back to pre Grace weight after the new baby comes (10 to go)
21. rearrange my living room
22. clean/rearrange our bedroom
23. make some "real" clothes do costumes count?
24. drive somewhere
25. go outside at least 2 times a week this summer (grocery shopping and church don't count)

Some will be a lot harder than others, but I think I can do it :D