I didn't see a chicken.

Grace's first complex sentence was spoken on Friday, Aug. 20th. Earlier that day, she and her Mimi were in a store and they saw a huge chicken. It was as tall as Grace. That night at dinner, Mimi told Grace to tell me all about the chicken she saw at lunch. Grace just looked at her. Mimi said you remember the big chicken.

Grace looked at her and said, "I didn't see a chicken."

What was funny, was the look on her face and her body language. She flung her hand out as if exasperated with Mimi's claims of seeing chickens.

Da-Da-Da-Dora

Grace went through Dora deprivation on our weekend trip to Big Bend. The TV at the resort didn't have Nick or Noggin' - so that meant, no Dora!

Every day she asked to watch Dora - she would sing the opening line of the introduction. "Da-Da-Da-Da-Dora!"

On the last morning, she woke me up by crawling into our bed, putting her nose an inch from mine. I opened my eyes and she said, "Da-Da-Da-Da-Dora!"

When we finally got home, she ran into the house screaming, "Da-Da-Da-Da-Dora!" She went straight to the TV, pointing and singing!

Ew, Gross!

Yesterday, after Grace's bath, which was a pretty traumatic experience, I put some gel in Grace's hair, as always (helps cut the frizz). I styled it all crazy, hoping to make her laugh. When I put her in front of the mirror...she took one look at herself and said, "Ew, Grwoss" and started crying all over again!

Poo-Poo in the Tub

For the past two weeks, Grace has hated her bath time. She starts crying as soon as I tell her it is time for her bath. She cries the entire time the tub is running. She begs for the towel before she even gets wet. She will find something to stand on in the tub, so she doesn't have to touch the bottom of the tub. She cries and says over and over, "Poo-Poo."

There is no poop in the tub! I don't even know where that came from. She hasn't pooped in the tub in ages. I clean the tub before hand, take out every single toy, no bubbles...and she finds something that she thinks is poop. She will try to climb out on her own, screaming at the top of her lungs and sobbing.

When she got out of the tub last night, I turned her around and said where is the poo-poo. She pointed at some sand from her sand box and said, "right there." I told her that was just sand. I swished it away. Then she looks in the tub and said, "Where go poo-poo?" I laughed and said there was no poop. Did she want back in? "Nooooooo, poooo-poooo!" was her answer!

Tea Time

One of Grace's presents for her birthday was a tea set from her Great-Granny. I didn't really think that Grace would like it yet; I thought it was too old for her, I guess. Boy, was I wrong. She LOVED the tea set. She still loves it. We play with it almost daily. She enjoys pouring us tea with sugar and cream. She likes to drink milk out of her tea cup...and likes to use the spoon to sip the milk out of.

If even one piece of the set is missing, she starts yelling, "Uh-Oh, Uh-Oh!" and looking frantically for it. For some reason, she likes to put it on the ironing board that she got. I try to move it to a table, but she puts it back on the ironing board every time.

I always think of her Poppy while we play with the tea set. When we were younger, Daddy would "drink" tea with Shanna and I on a regular basis. One of the things he couldn't wait to do was play tea with our girls. I am so sad that he wasn't able to do it, but every time we drink tea, we pour a cup for Poppy and talk about him.

2 Year Old Appointment

Grace went to her 2 year old appointment on July 11th. She is very healthy. The doctor was impressed with her vocabulary and listening skills. She is right on target or a little a head of target on all her mental skills. Of course, she likes to ignore me, so she was in time out at the doctor's office. She kept trying to hit me (thought she was being funny!).

Physically, she is great. She is in the 50% for height (33.5 inches), 20% for weight (24 lbs). Her BMI is 15 (10th percentile).





She had to get 2 shots. Her last Hep. A shot and her MMR shot (I finally let her get that!). After the trauma of getting shots, I took her to Target's Dollar Spot and got her some stickers. She made herself look like Unc.

Dora and Diego

We took Grace to see Go, Diego, Go live with Dora. She had a great time. She sat spell bound through the entire performance. Jaw dropped several times and eyes wide open the entire time.



The show was interactive. They were asked to jump, dance, growl like a jaguar and so on. They handed out jaguar masks to use while growling and clawing like Baby Jaguar. Grace and Daddy had a great time growling together.