Grace: 4 days shy of 2 years, 8 months

Tonight she has on her snow white dress. Her Daddy says, "come on snow white." Grace's reply, "Daddy! I'm princess snow white!"

She's really into choosing. She needs a choice of outfits and food to eliminate meltdowns for any breakfast, lunch, dinner or when it's time to change clothes. She'll sit for 30 minutes to an hour with a magazine asking you to chose something on the page and then telling you what others (Crewe, Brookie, Andy, Dawson, Nonnie, etc) would choose too. If she doesn't like what you've chosen she'll say, "no you chose this." while pointing to what she wants you to choose.

She also likes to tell you what answer she prefers to a question. Example:
Grace: "will you play play-doh with me?" "Say okay, Mommy."

She's been battling a UTI just before Christmas and then an ear infection just after but seems to be on the mends.

Her favorite treat is a Starbucks birthday cake pop!

When playing puzzles she divides the pieces into groups- one for her, one for me, and one for her daddy. We have to put together ONLY the pieces she's given us and can't combine them until everyone has put their set together.

We're still working on potty training. She uses the potty often- either she tells me when she needs to go or goes on her own. However it's just inconsistent.

After my post last night about her not needing her paci to sleep, she's done nothing but begged for it today. False alarm, I thought she was going to give it up on her own.

She's hit the "WHY?" stage.

And her other favorite question is, "where we go next?"

Hope your 2012 is off to a great start! Xoxo from our house to yours!

Pacifier

A pacifier (known as a dummy or soother in some countries) is a rubber, plastic, or silicone nipple given to an infant or other young child to suck upon. In its standard appearance it has a teat, mouth shield, and handle. The mouth shield and/or the handle is large enough to avoid the danger of the child choking on it or swallowing it.

Grace didn't have her paci at all today except for naptime at school (i'm guessing). I got her one in time for bed and tonight as I was rocking Grace to sleep she passed me her pacifier and said, "Mommy, I dont need this to sleep."

That's a FIRST! Think this might be the start of getting rid of it? Maybe so! :)

Shopping

Grace's sleeping has been VERY off lately. Some days she takes great 2-3 hour naps, some 45 minutes. Some nights she sleeps until 630, or like last night, was up from 12-2. Last Thursday night she had another restless night and fell asleep as I was on the way to BJ's to make a grocery run for the B and B. Usually if I move her while where out and about if she's sleeping she wakes up. This particular day, not so much! She slept like this for a good 30 minutes! :)

Sharp Eye

It took me (and Scott) a while to figure it out, but Grace kept telling us, "Santa forgot Lightening McQueen's eyes." It seemed she was the only one that noticed!

Fun with Christmas Gifts!

Aunt Chris and the rest of the Carson clan gave Grace this really cool play-doh set for Christmas. Grace loves cutting out shapes with her new cutters.



Annana (Mrs. Ann) know's Grace loves puzzles so what cooler present than a puzzle with our faces on it that's magnetic!





And I'm sure you've already noticed the Snow White outfit, compliments of Santa!

Grace also got a really neat pre-school backpack that's just her size from Santa too. She loves to stuff as many of her things in it as she can and tote it around the house on her back!

The Best Blessing...

I LOVE this picture I happened to snap of Grace yesterday morning as we were getting ready. Its so hard to get her to look at the camera and smile a real smile at the same time these days! :)

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...

Here are some {cell phone} photos from around Christmas time! I'm excited to say that I got a new point and shoot for Christmas so I hope to have lots more photos to share with you all!

We took Grace to see the Christmas lights over in Windsor. There were lots of them...





More photos of Lola...
















Jenn and I took Grace and Lilley to see the Nutcracker...




Christmas time!






One of the MANY presents Santa left for Grace: