The Story of the #2....

It was a crisp winter evening at 2722 Silver Oak Drive. The Guess family had just settled in for a comfortable night of pajama's, leftovers, and corny Christmas movies. All of the sudden the littlest member of the family yelled "poo-poo!". Her mother jumped up quickly to check the tiny girl's diaper, as the yelling of such a phrase usually meant that there was some cleaning to be done. But much to her surprise the diaper was dry... "hmmm" the Mother said, "Do you need to poo-poo?" Little Grace ran into her bedroom as if to have her diaper changed. Just then her mother had the most amazing thought! She asked her daughter, "Do you need to poo-poo?" The child answered "YES" in the most sweet tone of voice. The mother placed the child on the potty and ALAS, the littlest member of the family did just what she was asked to do! "HOORAY" shouted the family, and they celebrated with high fives, fist bumps, and Reese's Pieces candy.

FYI.... She has pooped two more times in the potty since this! Once this morning and another time at Cane's for lunch! We were in the booth and she said poo-poo... no poo-poo to be found so we went to the restroom and she went like a champ! Then when we got home she tee-tee'd in the potty!! WOW!!

Want to see a gorgeous kid?

These are a few of the photos we had taken of our sweet Grace! She is just dripping with CUTE!!

New words this week!

she is repeating everything!! But my favorites this week are "finished" and "poo-poo" HAHAHA. She comes and tells us after she has completed a number 2 :)

Praying for serenity!

As most of you know, I am one NERVOUS WRECK about most everything. My mom called me a "worry wart" growing up. I make myself SICK over stuff that doesn't matter in the least. I am aware of it and I have certain things that I do to help it, but the panic is here to stay, that is for sure. SOOO this week my child is adding to my already jumpy nerves!

The little stinker is sick again.

My poor baby just got over a 10 week long ear infection, ONLY to be dealt a nasty cough/fever/vomiting combination. oh joy.

I need a magic button to whisk away all worry and stress!!

Tonight I am praying for tranquility, serenity, and restfull sleep for everyone in my house :)

Love Love

Grace reading her book :)

One week after tubes

Today marks 1 week since we had tubes in Grace's ears, WOW what a difference. Mike and I were talking last night about what a different little girl we have now that she is not miserable.

The MAIN change, I would say, is that her appetite is stronger! She wakes up in the morning and the very first thing she tells her daddy is "food":) She's eating much better at daycare also, and we even received a note home from daycare saying that she has been an "enthusiastic" eater lately. YAY for that!

Another change we are so excited to see, are her verbal skills!! WOW, who would have thought in such a short amount of time she could figure out so many words. At her first birthday, I would say she probably only had 5 words that she repeated " momma, eat, shoe, bath, dad". NOW we are WELL over 25 words, I'll probably forget a few in this list:

"Mommy, Daddy, Willie, bath, eat, bubble, NO, YES, food, juice, milk, hot, cookie, snack, cheese, book, bird(soo cute), MOOOO (at the cow), ball, out, down, play, nose, ear, head, toes, shoe, pants, school (skoo), church (so cute), puppy, "this", uh..oh, please, thank you..." all of these she says ON HER OWN!!

She is also sleeping better and in a much more enjoyable mood :)

Will you marry me?

Happy Halloween!

Trick or treating in the neighborhood :)

First experience in the Jumpy Castle :)

Grace and my future Son-in Law



Girls in thier "cutom made" costumes!

Grace at St. Joseph's carnival

at Noah's Carnival

We had an eventful halloween weekend!! We took Grace to the fall fest at her buddy Noah's daycare on Saturday evening. It was quite a shock for miss Grace, anybody draped in black was terrifying to her. But little Noah was a gentlemen, holding Grace's hand and telling her "it's ok". He even asked her to marry him later on in the evening... no date set yet :).

On Sunday we went to church and then Mom and I met April and Noah again up at the Brazos center for St. Joseph's Fall carnival :) This time she had a blast! I think it was because it wasn't as cramped for space, and she was able to experience the JUMPY CASTLE!! Soo much fun!

Sunday evening, Jill , Nathan, and Mom, came over and helped me take Grace trick or treating. Mike was feeling bad so he had to miss out :(. She loved it! The only problem was that everytime someone opened thier door to give her candy, she tried to GO IN the house!! hahaha!