She did this on her own, crazy kid!
New Words of the Week: The ones I remember are "peaches" (pa-peach), "Dem Bones" (buh-bohm), and "Round and Round" (wohn-wohn-wohn). I think some explanations are in order (well, at least for the 2nd and 3rd ones). My brother Paul gave Gracie a video for Christmas that has several books/stories told with animation and songs. She hasn't really taken an interest in it until the last couple weeks, and now she almost likes it better than Baby Einstein! The first song is "The Wheels on the Bus" and she loves to do the actions and (kinda) sing along. She says, "Wohn-wohn-wohn" and brushes her hands back and forth against each other to do the actions for "round and round." She also does "Move on back" and "Swish, swish, swish," but I wouldn't pretend to know how to spell her versions of those phrases! The next song is "Dem Bones" (as in, " The toe bone's connected to the...foot bone!" and so on), and that is her favorite one! This really surprises me, because it's sung by a bunch of weird-looking skeletons whose bones come apart and go back together as they sing. Oh well--I guess she doesn't know what they are, huh? Maybe someday I'll get ambitious and take/post a picture of her watching the video.
Oh, and another word is "swing" (wing). She asks for the swing (complete with w/ "swing" in sign language) many, many times every day, and last week I was a good mom and took her to the park to swing 4 days in a row. I know--I'm amazing! ;)
Doesn't she look thrilled?! ;)
New Food of the Week (and Grace's reaction): Grace got to partake of tri-tip steak this past week. We had Sunday dinner with the grand- and great-grandparents (obviously--we've never bought tri-tip!) last night, and Grandpa barbecued some very yummy tri-tip. I cut it into little pieces for Gracie, but she wouldn't eat it. So then I got a piece of it and dipped in her Jello ("jeddo") and she loved it. She's not big into eating meat, so I wasn't surprised that she didn't eat tons of it.
She's created her own "little corner of the world."
New Injury of the Week: Ever since Gracie learned "open" and "closed" she likes to practice on anything she can: her toy bowls that fit together, her play food that Velcros together, and kitchen drawers at her grandparents' house. (I think you all know where this is going...) Well, as I was helping clean up the kitchen last night at Mimi's house, Gracie was playing with their drawer, saying, "O-men...towsed...o-men...towsed (pause) ahhhhhh!" I looked over at her and she started shaking both hands and saying, "Owa, owa!" and crying! It was so sad! I picked her up and went and cuddled her on the couch for a few minutes. I also kissed each finger and told her that would make it better, and then I had her go show Daddy. That got her excited (she LOVES to show Daddy new things, like new outfits, hairdos, toys, etc.). Daddy said all the right sympathetic things and then kissed each hand, and then she was just fine! She still had to show Papi and Grandpa, for dramatic effect, but Daddy's healing kisses really did the trick. She was fine the rest of the evening, and she doesn't have any marks or anything!
Favorite Pastime #12: Watching herself in videos
Fun Stories of the Week: On Saturday Gracie and I got to go to a baby shower for a friend in our ward, and Grace had so much fun playing with the other kids there. She found her friend Audrey's sippy cup that looks like one she has (which was at home) and started drinking from it. I said, "No, no Gracie--here's yours!" and gave her the one I had brought. A couple minutes later I saw that she was drinking out of Audrey's again, and that Audrey was drinking out of Gracie's! I said, "Sorry!" to Audrey's mom, and she said, "Hey, I don't care if you don't care!" so we just let them drink out of whichever one they wanted. Later Gracie found someone else's sippy cup and stuck with that one--I guess he had the best water of all!
Drinking [milk] out of a fast food cup...
Why do I get such a kick out of her doing "grown-up" things?
The world may never know...
Why do I get such a kick out of her doing "grown-up" things?
The world may never know...
Then, Saturday night we had the missionaries over for dinner, and they were pretty impressed with Gracie's sign language. She would say something that was mostly unintelligible while doing a baby sign, then I would go get whatever she wanted, give it to her, and she'd say, "Thank you!" After this happened a couple times, one of the missionaries said, "So, do you have a Urim & Thummim or something?!" We laughed and Dave explained that we've taught her some sign language to help us better understand her. They thought it was so cool, and one of them said, "Yes! Now I know what to do when I have kids!" It was cute. (On a side note, it's still really weird for me to realize that I'm older than pretty much every [non-senior] missionary who's serving a mission. Makes me feel old. Oh well.)
So, that's it. The End.
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