Jesus loves me.....

A lot has changed in the land of Grace lately, verbally anyways :) I just want to share that Grace has started singing... And her new fave songs to sing are "this little light of mine","ring around the rosie","old macdonald", "the b.i.b.l.e", and her favorite "jesus loves me" which sounds a little like "me me me me,yes me me yes" haha what a funny little face :)

Over 150 words, most of them with attitude...

Oh my.. Its been a while since my last post, mostly because Grace keeps us so busy, and secondly because I got a fancy smart phone and don't have to be on the computer for internet. But anyways, this child of mine is becoming a little stinker! Precious..... But a stinker none the less. Oh we have entered the land of tantrums, extreme energy, screaming, and believe it or not, talk back attitude! We sat down and thought about her words this week, over 150 (we quit counting... But most of them lately are ugly! "no, mine, help" and we are constantly intercepting tattling! She wants to whine about everything... Where did my sweet little baby go? We can't help but laugh at her wild personality.who knows where she gets it from, haha

Christmas Morning :)

Our little artist!!

Grace is having sooo much fun with crayons lately, i'd thought you might want to see her in action! The funniest thing about this new skill is that she talks jibberish the entire time she colors.... it's quite comical!!

What a mess!

My child is a MESS! :) Once again, I can not believe how quickly she is turning into a young lady. She has done some of the silliest things lately!

Her newest developments include:

-Asking to put on her shoes and go outside " shoes, shoes outside"

- As soon as we get home she runs to the Christmas tree and will not move until we turn the

"Rismus lights" on

- telling us specifically what she wants to eat " balala" (banana), "cheese", "snack" (something gerber), "cookie", and most often we hear "che-chup" which means she would like something she gets to dunk in Ketchup. She will stand infront of the fridge until we get up, the entire time repeating her food word of choice.

- When someone comes out of the restroom or flushes the potty.. she claps and says "YAY"

- If she sits on the potty, she asks for candy the whole time..... uh oh.

- She watches Elmo's world so often she sings the theme song "la -la-la la"

- She askes to give "Wih- Wee", aka Willie, her food.

- Mike taught her Feliz Navidad. He sings "Feliz navidad" and she sings "cha-cha-cha" after him

- New favorite song is "head and shoulders, knees and toes" and she gets SO excited for the "eyes and ears and mouth and nose" part that she yells "EYES" after every other word you sing :)

-and the last 2 nights she has asked to be put "Night Night". Taking herself into her bedroom and giggling when we put her down.

What a crazy kid! My little Love.

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 :)