Daycare news!

Good news! I will start at a new daycare in a few weeks! It is a Montessori center and I will be able to start right when Mommy and Daddy need me to. It is also managed by Bright Horizons, like my former school, so some things will be very familiar to me and M&D. I sure have enjoyed spending time at home this summer with Sopha and Katelin though and having my own personal assistant/teacher! But I guess I am looking forward to playing with other friends my age again too. Sopha and Katelin don't appreciate a good toe chewing like my old daycare buddies did. Mommy is excited (and enormously relieved) because now she said that she can take me "back-to-school" shopping since I can't wear my jammys all day anymore.

Tonight I got to have dinner with one of my former teachers, Ms. Kim. Gosh, I miss my teachers. Ms. Kim always let me snuggle with her whenever I needed a hug. The kids she is watching now are lucky. I also miss Ms. Darcy who always gave me fun hairstyles each day so M&D never knew what I would look like when they would pick me up. Ms. Debbie was so kind and friendly. Mrs. Krystal always had a hug waiting for me. And Ms. Ashley was fun too - she loved to laugh with me. I am looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend at the water park!

Mommy wanted to show people this picture of me and my kitty cat, Sydney. Syd is fun to play with - she let's me body slam her and then pull out fistfuls of her fluffy grey fur. This picture also shows how I enjoy playing in an empty shoe box, instead of all of the expensive toys that I have!

I miss you Daddy!

Taters in my ears

Daddy is teaching me how to clean the taters out of my ears. He teases me that they grow there since I'm part Idahoian. Mommy calls me his "Lil' Tater Tot."

(Note from Kris: Don't worry. Grace is safely supervised when she is sticking anything in her ear. Well, she is safely supervised when we are aware that she is sticking anything in her ear anyway.)

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

This week has been a busy one! I got to go to both a Tigers and a Lions game this week. No wonder I'm so tired tonight. I sure did have fun at both games and I was the hit of the crowd. I didn't make it onto the JumboScreen yet, but I made a lot of friends.

At the Tigers game, we got to see a lot of our friends from Northern, as Mommy's alumni group got together for the game. The Tigers didn't play very well (Tigers 1, Tampa Bay 7), but I did have a bite of my first ballpark hotdog and it was yummy!

I also learned how to do the "wave." I need a little practice though, because I was about three seconds late each time, but everyone thought I was cute!

The Lions game was fun too! They weren't playing very well either, but Mommy read in the paper this morning that they actually won after we left the game (Lions 27, Bengals 26). We had to leave the game early because someone in our family was tired (and it wasn't me...it was Daddy!) Daddy is trying very hard to be a Lions fan here in Detroit, but he says that they aren't making it easy for him!

'Da Bears...those were the Teddy Grahams that I was sharing with Mum & Dad at the game.

Dad's early-parenting philosophy

"Our job is to make sure Grace is the one buying the fries, and not the one making the fries."

Learning to use a spoon

So, think back if you can to when you learned to use a spoon. It's kind of hard isn't it? Which end goes in my mouth? How do I keep the food from falling off? And darn it, I keep forgetting that I need to "reload" my spoon before I put it in my mouth! Of course, it is not helping that my Daddy shows me that your spoon belongs on your nose. He's so silly! I love him. He gives me good snuggles. What do you think though...am I going to be a rightie or leftie?

I am eating well though, and my parents often poke my belly after each meal to make sure that it won't pop because it usually sticks out a lot. I love watermelon, popsicles, ice cubes, fruit, and most veggies. If you put it in front of me, I'll at least try it, and if I don't like it, I will pull it out of my mouth and hand the half-chewed piece of food to Mommy. I can't figure out why she looks at me funny then. She won't eat it either!

We are still in the midst of our daycare dilema too. I love my friends Sopha and Katelin who are watching me this summer, but they will go back to school full-time in a few weeks. Mommy found out that we are still on the waitlist for the great center where she works, so they put my name in at another center, but they have a waitlist too. So frustrating...doesn't anyone want me?! Mommy thinks that she should have attached a picture of me on the applications, because no one can say no to me! When Mommy and Daddy tell me no, I just sit down, fold myself in half and wail into the floor. (Don't tell them, but it works every time!)

I've been "Simpsonized!"

Daddy "Simpsonized" me! My kitty, Sydney, is actually a lot cuter than this scraggly thing though. As you know, I really have a lot more hair than this too.

The other picture is my Daddy. Mommy told him that his hair needed to be a little more gray, but he just laughed.

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