Sunday Funday

Boy has it been an extremely busy week. I worked full time hours at St. Marys, picked up an extra few hours at Shriner's, and then graciously went in to St. Marys last night to help because they had a call in. With that being said, Grace and I really didn't do anything fun this week. She went to her babysitters twice this week. She played at my Mom's house with my nephews Shawn and Collin on Friday. She stayed the night at my parents house on Saturday while I went into work and Jamie spent some time with my brother Sam.

I vow I am going to do something very fun with Grace today!!!! Maybe Incredible Pizza, The Magic House, or Monkey Joe's but she is going to have a great day with Jamie and I as soon as I wake up from taking a little nap.

I will post pictures later. Wish us much needed and deserved fun!!!

Bath Time

Grace loves getting in the bath....

She loves putting her alphabet foams on the walls.

She loves drinking the "clean" water.

She loves pouring water from one cup to another.

She runs down the hallway heading to the bathroom when I just mention getting in the shower or bath, in hopes to get in.

I love sitting next to the bath watching her play!!!!!!

Laundry is my Nemesis

Today I took Grace to Ms. Judy's so I could get a few things done around the house after our lazy relaxing weekend.

I had EIGHT loads of laundry to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I turned on my satellite radio and just folded away. In between loads I cleaned, dusted, vacuumed, etc. I accomplished everything I needed to do and more. I can get so much stuff done when I don't have Grace Adeline here with me. Is that mean to say?

Jamie was off the entire weekend, had Monday off, and took a half day today. So we have had tons of quality time home together- I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going to participate in the "Great Date Experiment" its about keeping the spice in your married life. I will keep you posted on how it goes. We will start in the first week of March.

Valentine's Day

I wanted to wish everyone a great Valentines Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am praying today for my friends that haven't yet found their perfect Valentine. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful man, husband, and best friend in my life. I only hope that we stay as happy for years to come as we are now.

We went out to dinner last night to celebrate Valentines Day. My mom had been babysitting Grace all day and she stayed over there while we ate. Jamie and I decided not to do any gifts since we are saving. We did exchange cards. Jamie got Grace a cute Mickey Mouse card and a Mickey Mouse cookie. It almost made me have tears in my eyes when I seen her little card and cookie all made out and signed by Jamie, he is such a great Dad!!

Grace got some other goodies from her Grandma JoAnne. Rather than going out to dinner last night we are just relaxing and spending the day together today.

Update with grace

Grace is 19 Months now!!!

What is new with her:

She is talking so much- she probably has a 60 word vocabulary
She is obsessed with Sesame Street, she loves Elmo so much!! I catch her talking to them in her bed when she is suppose to be going to sleep saying "hi Elmo, night night Elmo". Sesame Street is her favorite show to watch on TV.
She continues to love her Daddy so much- she can't get enough of him
She now tries to say everyone of my siblings names and cried for Mama and Papa all the time.
She can count and say some of her ABC's
She goes to the babysitters house 2-3 times a week and loves it there.
She is 26lbs which is in the 64% for her weight and she is in the 94% for her height.
She eats anything and everything!!
She loves to have books read to her and is starting to really like puzzles.
She plays really good with other children.
She has so much energy!!!

I love her to pieces and she warms my heart several different times a day. She is stubborn and mean at times and then can turn around and smile and giggle and blow you a kiss at the same moment.

Vacation

We recently went on a little weekend vacation. We left on a Friday morning and came back on a Monday. We flew to Orlando and then took a shuttle to Port Canaveral and left on a cruise from there. We went on Splendor of the Seas it is a Royal Caribbean boat. We took my sister to help with Grace. We got them their own room down the hall from us.

Our first stop was Nassau in the Bahamas and then Coco Cay. Coco Cay is an island that Royal Caribbean has bought that they use exclusively. It was gorgeous. The weather was so beautiful, Not to hot and breezy. Grace was not afraid of the ocean at all. She would go straight to it, walk by it and let her feet get wet and go all the way out to her knees. It was so precious to see her play in the sand and water. At Nassau we went to Black Beard Cay and stayed the day there it was beautiful and relaxing. At one point Grace went in front of all the beach chairs that everyone was sitting in and starting dancing to the Reggae music that was playing and everyone was clapping at her, it was so cute!!!!

Grace had a rough time on the boat. She was tired and crabby from when we got there until we got home. She loves to sleep in her own bed at night and she pretty much cried her self to sleep every night we were there. She went to sleep at 1230am on Friday night, 237am in Saturday night, and 1230am on Sunday night. It was rough!!!! Then come morning time she was so mad that we were waking her up to do things. She ate like a pig everyday and flirted with multiple waiters, staff, etc. We would walk in and people would say "Hi Grace!".

The flights were tough as well. We gave her Benadryl on the way down there and she slept in Jamie's arms the entire flight. The way home- Not so easy!!! All in all we had a wonderful time and made memories that I will never forget.