Working Outside!

05/09/12

So we have been working in the garden...ok...Brad has.  But I've been there a bit picking out rocks.  It's just too hard for me to help because I'm always with Grace, and when she's napping, I'm doing homework!  He doesn't mind though.  Gardening is his hobby!

 Daddy is working the dirt!

 SHEW THAT WAS CLOSE!  She totally almost bit the dust with that!  Luckily she caught herself.

 And of course she was scared afterwards...so off to the water bin!

 Hey there cutie!

 My smartie pants signing "water" as she says it.

 Trying to grab the water.  She's been having some trouble with pincer grasping something without having to search for it.  Her eyesight is about 3 inches off, so I'm wondering if it's double vision, or something else.  I'm so glad she'll see the doctor in August for her eyes.

 I just had to play with the photo a bit and put it into black and white.  SUPER CUTE!!!

 Mommy and Grace.  Usually I don't put my pictures up because I look bleh...

 KISSES!!!!

This is how we normally find her, but sometimes she just can't resist...

 So up she gets...

 and down she goes in the dirt!!

 Uh, oh...am I seeing dirt go in the mouth?  I better get closer...

 Still can't tell...I better get closer!

 Shew!  No dirt.  Just a cute elvis face!

 Watching daddy and brother Ryan.

 The two funnest toys to play with outside.

 Checking out all the rocks Daddy and Brother Ryan collected!

 Putting them in and out.

 She's head manager...has to be sure they are doing everything right!

 And this....this is how she tells me it's time for some private time!

 Chucking a rock!  Well, it was so darn cute :)  "Ready?  One...too...tree!"  And then it dropped behind her back!

And lastly...a second faster and I would have had her face between her legs, and can you just imagine her in this position saying "peek-a-boo!"

Amanda

My Sewing Room...and Baked Bread!

05/09/12

So I like to put random updates in here that have nothing to do with Grace so that people can see that I'm not a million percent absorbed with Grace, but that I'm also a homemaker as well!

 First my super cute shelf :)  That's my hand print at the left, a relax sign I painted, the three canvas pictures I painted for G's room...but is now in my sewing room until I redecorate her room, and then a little candle holder.

 All my super duper binders!  Grace's medical binder isn't there, but it's the size of the "boy scouts" and "family history" binders, and that's just the main one!  She's got 2 other 2 inch binders!

All my dozens of patterns...I...LOVE...patterns!

And my yummy 50/50 wheat white bread!  The little one I made for Grace!

This is my sun oven baked bread.  It turned out..except...

It didn't rise very well, I think I will put it on a grate of some sort inside my pan so the heat can get all around it, not only helping it rise more but also crisping the bottom, as this one was extremely soggy.

But it was yummy!  We just had one slice because it will be served when my mom gets here!

See how pretty!

The end!

Amanda

Sometimes, her Bed Isn't Good Enough!

05/09/12

Sometimes, we have a great nap time.  I put her down, she goes right to sleep, sleep 2 hours, and plays for about 1/2 an hour while I finish up whatever I'm working on.  But then there are days like..below...

 Where's Grace?!  Do you see her???  And btw, do you see THAT MESS?!  It was clean when I put her in bed for nap.

 Wow.  I think a tornado wen through her room. 

 OH!  There she is!  This bed was absolutely full of pillows, stuffed animals, and her giant horse.  At least the horse stayed!

Poor little miss tuckered herself out playing while she should have been sleeping!  What a sweetie!

Amanda

Another Owie...

05/08/12

So I don't know what's been going on with Grace, but she's been super off balance, and after the lip thing, I was hoping she'd be more careful.  But no.  We had one of those crashes that I was present, but my brain didn't register fast enough as I watched her falling (I swear in slow motion), and her face came closer and closer to the edge of the door... Darnit!  I'm sorry Grace for being so slow to react!

 Look at my little sweet pea with her sad little owie on her face...

 But she's such a trooper!  She forgot about it in all of 5 minutes.  Some cuddles and then she was fine :)

 All smiles...yucky what a slimy face.  She's getting really hard core about sucking on her hands and so bibs might be coming back into play!

And there she is...we're having some bigger issues with that little eye turning in as well.  I'm so glad we are going to see the doctor in August for setting up surgery!!

Amanda

TODDLER SCHOOL PART TWO!!

Grace had a great day inside for toddler school, but this "part two" is all about her playing outside for toddler school!!!

Here's Grace getting lined up to go outside to play!!!

 Hanging out with the teacher.  This is all she does every day, but that's ok!

 She likes this teacher for sure :)

Climbing out of the sandbox!!  They spent about 5 minutes there, so that was cute.

 Going up, up, up!

 I totally thought she saw me but she didn't!  WOW!

 Made it...now going to the slide.

 And of course I didn't get one of her going DOWN the slide because there were too many kids around.  I could only take pictures of her.  That teacher there is her old Toddler Lab teacher, Miss Darci.  I liked her SO MUCH.

And time to go home!  SHE IS SO CUTE!!!

Amanda