Food... Glorious Food!

I am... speechless. I will try, but I am simply without the right words. Since Tuesday, my Grace has been eating, strawberries, cheese, grapes, watermelon, cheerios, pickles, macaroni & cheese, and last night and entire scrambled egg! Eating... Grace eats! I thought this day would NEVER come! I know that there must be so many people out there going..."Is she nuts? Her kid is 18 months old...What's the big deal?" It IS a big deal... It's HUGE!!! I am so happy and proud and now I have one less thing weighing on my mind before baby#2 arrives (in less than 2 days). Grace eats!

Miss Grace has been in heaven since Halloween when Grampa and Memaw arrived. She has had both Grampa and Nonie here the past several days and is being spoiled rotten. That was however my plan, at the very least my hope. Grace has been the sole focus of my attention for so long I still worry about how she will transition into the big sister roll. But Nonie has done an outstanding job of taking over and Grampa is here to keep her laughing and it's all really nice. Since I am so big and so uncomfortable knowing that Grace is not being even slightly neglected because I am unable to get down on the floor and play or because I cannot bend over to give her a bath is so wonderful. Grace and Nonie have really made the space in the loft a perfect place for play. Since the first week (at least) that I am home I will be under strict orders to avoid going up and down the stairs, it will be nice to sit on the couch in the loft and share in Grace's playtime.

I have however a bit of guilt to get off my chest.. Maybe it was because this has been such a busy month+ with family in town, maybe it was that it has been such a busy month+ for me with my own medical stuff, or maybe I am simply too caviler about some things and wanting Grace to grow up tough and not neurotic about little things.... I don't know but whatever the case, I chalked up her runny nose that started on October 1st to teething. After several weeks she did finally cut a tooth (Oh yeah, Grace got her 7th tooth, bottom left of front two, on October 16th)...Anyway, after the tooth cut thought, then she developed a cough and some chest congestion, but has not had a fever and has not really acted ill... so I let it go. We all got the stomach virus and I thought... Well I don't know what I thought... So Nonie gets here... shows a healthy amount of Grandmotherly concern for this little girl with all the chest congestion and then the falling down starts... Grace out of the blue starts tripping all over herself. not seeming too spaciously aware of herself I call the doctor and get her in to be seen on Saturday morning first thing... Yeah, double ear infection... How did I miss this? But she did not pull on her ears, or tug on her ears or fuss like she was in pain... My poor baby. So she is on antibiotics and I feel terrible. I guess somethings you are better off safe than sorry... There is a learning curve to this motherhood thing, isn't there??