Grace Update!

Grace Carol Hill

Grace will be turning 2 years old at the end of this month! wowza!  She is a funny little girl, loves being girlie, but loves playing rough with her brother.  She will do whatever Parks asks her to do, they play a lot better with each other now...she doesn't always take what Parks is playing with.  It really is so wonderful to listen to them playing. Parks always does something silly to make her laugh and she always cracks up. Parks understands her vocabulary so well:) and their little conversations melt my heart.  Grace loves being outside, she's very independent at the park...she hasn't really taken to the run bike yet...and her feet don't quite touch the pedals on the tricycle that we have yet, so she has no interest in bikes at the moment.  She loves swimming!  and gets soooo excited when we tell her we are going to the pool.  She has no fear, I cant wait to get her up to the Lake this Summer:) 

She has been back to her healthy self after months of being sick a while back, but I think her immunity is stronger than ever now:)  Potty training has been off and on.  I'm not pushing it with her, but recently she has decided to use the potty a lot more.  That tells me that it is time.  She had two poops in the potty yesterday all by herself!! She loves dumping it into the toilet, flush and say 'bye bye poop'.  Whatever works right!  She eats really well unless Parks says its yucky, than she will say its yucky...and not eat it!!
She can be a little too dramatic sometimes and cries out for every bonk on the head and tumble that she takes, but we are trying hard not to baby her anymore.  She loves her 'bubba' still.  My goal was to have her off bottles by 2 years old (that's how i did it with Parks) but I'm struggling with how cute she looks with it and that she is still my baby.  She only takes 4 oz before bed and sometimes for her nap I'll give her the same if she doesn't eat enough for lunch...
Her talking is incredible, must be from hearing Parks all day long.  She will repeat anything she hears.  Her latest question went from 'Why?' to 'Mama, what you talkin 'bout?' She always wants to know what we are talking about...lol and she wont stop asking until you tell her!  When she is excited to go to the park or swimming or even to walmart...lol She will shout out 'yipee yippee yipeee' Its adorable:) 

Her little voice is awesome, I need to take more videos.
A week ago when Nana was visiting we decided to get Grace's ears pierced.  She always asks me about my earrings so i told her it would be a poke poke in her ear and than earrings!! She did awesome, they numbed her ears first with a cream, waited about 20 minutes, than two girls pierced them at the same time.  She cried for about a minute, more from the sound and motion...and was back to her normal happy self.  We explained to her about no touching, i clean them 1-2 times a day. and they look great!

Before getting earrings...

Grace with earrings!

We are so grateful to have a son AND daughter, they are such a precious blessing in our life.