Happy Birthday JoJo!

Our JoJo is out of town today...so this is her birthday message!

and another...

We hope you have a great day!

10 Months!

Where is the time going?? I cannot believe that Grace is 10 months old today! I have already started planning her first birthday and I'm in a little bit of denial about it! This child is so wonderful, I can't even explain. Her new major milestone this month was learning to stand up all alone without holding onto anything! She will pull up on something and then let go and grin from ear to ear about her accomplishment. Unfortunately, it's short lived because she sits down after a few seconds. She is consistently eating dinner in her high chair and soon we'll move to a lunchtime routine also. She has the loudest squawk I've heard in a while. If she wants more of something, she'll bust out a super loud holler. We're working on the sign for more-more so she doesn't have to yell at me! The other day I was trying to teach her and I said "can you say more-more" while doing the motion, and from the other room I hear Annalee say, "Mom, she can't talk yet!" Thanks for pointing that out. She has also learned to wave 'bye-bye' this month. So precious. She usually does it when we leave a room or sometimes when I pick her up out of her bed. She also loves to point to things with one finger...I have been trying to get a good picture of this...she's letting her little light shine! We love you Grace!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hope you all had fun wearing your green today! We sure did! We had a lovely picnic with JoJo, Papa, and Aunt Betsy (Jodie's youngest sister who is visiting from Alabama this week). We spent loads of time just enjoying each other and the gorgeous weather and flowers. Grace was in a super mood...all smiles and claps. She showed off one of her new tricks to JoJo too...pulling up on your leg and then standing up on her own! Annalee had fun on an adventurous walk with Papa. What a beautiful spring day.

Sweet profile

Who's that peeping up from the big tree log??

Poor Baby

Imagine my horror when I picked Grace up from her nursery class yesterday and found her front tooth missing a large chunk!! I freaked...so much so that Annalee burst into tears as well. The most amazing part of the whole ordeal is that it was a complete mystery of how it happened. Her teacher noticed it within a few minutes of her being in class and assumed that it had happened at home since Grace hadn't even been set down to play yet and had definitely not fallen or banged her tooth on anything. I was 100% sure that it had not happened at home or when I was around because I would have noticed it that morning. After a frantic call to the pediatric dentist (lucky for us we already had a great one since Annalee just recently had her first visit) we were scheduled for an exam. Yesterday morning I had to take my 9 month old to the dentist! I was SO dreading it, but she was a trooper. She sat perfectly still for the exam and let the doctor get a good look at the damage. Apparently there are 3 layers to our teeth and her chip goes well into the 2nd layer (luckily not the 3rd layer which is where the nerve and blood supply are). She is at risk of loosing the tooth since it can abscess or die and fall out on its own. Super. The dentist had to polish and file it smooth since it had some jagged edges. She did really good during this part, but about half way through she'd had enough and started crying and moving alot.

We're still not sure how exactly it happened, but the dentist thinks she bit down hard on something because of the way it was broken, possibly my stroller bar since that was one of the only things she came in contact with in the short window of time that it could have happened.

So, until she looses that sweet jagged tooth...this is the precious grin that we'll get to see!

I took this right before we headed to the dentist, so it looks a little smoother now.

Beautiful Day

Today was such a beautiful day outside! We had a fabulous time hanging out with the girl's cousins, Caleb and Carter. We went to a park near their house and just let the kids run and play. Grace got to experience a park swing for the first time! She was in heaven...I couldn't choose just one pic!

The big cousins driving a car.

I'm just gonna throw this one in because I love her so much and I think she looks like such a grown up little lady here!