Oh Christmas Tree...

Here are a few more Christmas pictures. We went to a party the other night, so we had a tiny photo shoot...

9 Months!!!

I can not believe that I'm writing about my nine month old!! Time really does fly by. Well as you can see in this picture 9 Months was the biggest transition yet! Grace decided that 9 months was her cue and decided on her very own to just sleep through the night!!! Who would have guessed that? We went from one night getting up 3-4 times and one of those for two hours, to I'm going to fuss for 2 minutes and go back to sleep and sleep 13 hours! Thank the Lord, Mommy was near losing her mind (and Daddy too). So with the great sleep came a not so great clingy stage. Also very sudden. Mommy could not put Grace down. Even if we were on the floor playing together and she was touching my leg, that was not close enough. Well the severity of this stage passed within 3 days. She's still a bit clingy, but not like that. Grace still doesn't crawl, she does the butt scooch. She has even managed to get to the Christmas tree and pull down 2 ornaments. Since she doesn't move fast and often, I actually found the Christmas tree thing to be cute. I'm sure next year it will not be so "cute". We've tried various different foods, but Mommy has decided to stop throwing her money into the trash can and just continue with the good old cereal and vegetables, still the favorite! Grace has a few tricks: clapping, "So Big", kisses, dancing, the dragon noise (rahhh), peek-a-boo, and she will scoot over towards a drawer if there's one in sight and open it up, stick her little fingers inside to pull out anything she can get to, she also likes to chew on the drawer??? I guess that's all I can think of for now. Before I know it I'll be posting again....

Florida 2007

Grace is a traveling girl!

Sorry it's been so long. We've had a crazy couple of weeks! Here's a timeline...

November 26th... Mommy takes Grace to the doctor... Her first ear infection, Mommy feels awful!!

November 28th... Call the Doctor, Make sure it's OK to travel with Grace...Got the OK

November 29th... Leave for Minnesota

December 3rd... Big snowstorm in NH, our flights were postponed until tomorrow

December 4th... Leave Minnesota for home

December 5-6... Get ready to leave again, go back to the doctor, All Clear, Grace just doesn't like to sleep at night!

December 7th... Leave for Florida

December 14th... Come back home to the cold and snow and here we are. Grace sleeps actually through the night for the very first time. I think she knew this was it. I was really putting my foot down since she was turning 9 months tomorrow and sure enough the little monkey did it on her own. She slept from 6:30-6:30! Praise the Lord!!!

December 15th... Grace is 9 Months old! This night she slept from 7-7!!!! Anyhow... Here are some pics from out Minnesota trip. We had such a great visit! We did the Ryan Christmas, a baptism for Grace and we got to see Santa!

Grace and Grandpa

Grace & Santa

Grace & Uncle Timmy

The Ryan family

Grace and her cousin Tanner

Flying...

Here's some more Pics from our MN trip.... Grace is a really good traveler! She has never once fussed on a plane. We are so thankful!