"I See You!"

This morning Grace has been able to see the bucket loaders and the water truck from our living room windows. (provided of course that she is sitting on the backrest of the couch with her face and hands pressed up to on of the windows) She has suck a great time watching the truck, that it is no skin off my nose to sit with her and watch in wide eyed wonder, in fact I love to watch Grace's amusement with things that I would normally ignore. It is a new habit for Grace to say "Hi Truck" or "Bye Truck" as they come into view or drive away, but this morning she was telling the trucks... "I see you!" Where does she come up with this stuff? I wish that I had the camera or video camera near bye... she melts my heart she is so cute!

Today was a full morning. We had our girlfriend Taylor over this morning for a play date with her mother and brother. Taylor arrived at the door with her new double stroller and her babies in tow. Grace was so happy to see this new stroller and the babies that were in it! The two of them played with their strollers and babies for a few minutes together before Taylor became interested in her favorite toy here (The Alphabet Train, my least favorite toy by the way) and Grace took up with Taylor's new stroller. Unfortunately my little on is in a perpetual state of teething and began to chew on the new stroller (Sorry Rachael), so I had to take it away from Grace. The tears did not last long. Grace and Taylor soon discovered that they could both fit on the seat of the Alphabet Train and began to play together again. And Landon, my smiling beautiful little buddy Landon, entertained the girls with a happy story full of grunts, squeals and great noises. The leaned over him on the ottoman for a good five minutes or so listening and laughing. Just in case anyone was wondering... Taylor is not such a big fan of the gate system we installed in our living room. She is quite the climber and my bet would be; if given enough time she could have figured out how to get over the gate.

~ Best ~

~ Friends ~

After our afternoon nap it was baby bottles and bath toys. Off to Babies R Us to exchange Grace's old bottles for the BPA free ones and pick up the alpha-numeric foam cut outs for Grace's bath time. We have been working on our letters and colors lately and I though what better time than while I have her captive in the tub. She thinks the alphabet puzzle mat is great fun to roll around with and take apart and put together but it it too interesting at the moment to be an effective learning tool.

Home for dinner and a break before we headed off to the playground for our evening romp. Grace is very interested in being friends with the children on the playground who ignore her. If they have no interest in speaking to her or engaging her in their play, she is right there in their face saying "hi" and trying to get in on the action. The flip side is those children who want to be her friend and immediately come up and say hello and try to engage her terrify her! She wants nothing to do with them and is hesitant to even play. She keeps running to me to cling on and hide behind a leg. Unfortunately young children don't get subtle cues that their advances are unwelcome and they keep trying... Poor Grace, she'll have to get over it.

Grace did have a blast on the rocking motorcycle. She finally figured out that if she sits far enough forward she can reach the foot rests and really get the thing rocking all by herself. I must admit it looked like fun and wished that they made a playground for us big kids too!