Just Hanging Around

Trying to get a nice picture of the two of these turkeys isn't easy.

So we just went with the hanging out look.

By the way, her face is all healed up! (minus the header she did at church today and got a little rug burn on her nose!-ha!)

First Ouchie

Grace had her first major ouchie on Tuesday. We were in the garage and she was sitting on her lawn chair and she started standing on it. I told her not to and that if she did she may fall and it would hurt. Well... that's exactly what happened. A face plant on the cement floor. We scooped her up and got it washed off. Once we knew that her teeth were ok, she and Daddy took a break on the couch together.

And this is how she woke up. It's hard to see but her lip looks like botox gone wrong. It was completely HUGE and swollen. She also bonked her nose pretty well and her forehead.

She kept touching it and she sounded so funny. All day long whenever I looked at her I could hardly take it. Poor Baby!

The swelling went down quickly. This was her the next day.... now we're just keeping neosporin on it to keep it from breaking open. Ouch!

Numbers

2- The number of hats Grace chose to wear on our walk the other day.

13- the number of books we read before bed tonight. She especially liked reading the cookie monster and sesame street abc books. :)

17- the number of weeks I'll be tomorrow!

1- the number of sock hands you'll see on Gracie each day. She loves to put her socks on her hands.

Getting Out

Guess what this great weather means? We can get outside! I got this double stroller on craig's list for a great deal and I'm so thankful I can get outside with both the little ones!

They sit kind of close so it's either lots of fun for both of them or too close for comfort... it goes back and forth. :)

Ha! Poor Ian! His winter coat made him a little marshmallow in this! ( I didn't want him getting cold and he did enjoy it!)

We saw ducks, geese, squirrels, and dogs on our walk. What a fun thing to do. Praise God for warm weather!

Big Girl!

Grandma Shirley came to visit this weekend and she did Gracie's hair! I've never pulled it all back in to a ponytail like this. She looks so grown up!

It lasted pretty well till naptime when the back part fell out. But she is getting big isn't she? :)

Journeying into Cloth Diapers

I've been thinking of cloth diapering this next little one and have been doing lots of reading about it. We have a friend at church who cloth diapers and she's been very helpful with ideas. I decided to try it out on Grace. I got a sample pack of prefold diapers with covers and a few all in one diapers. These are like regular disposable diapers with the ease of putting them on.

The washing is a little more than regular but when you add up how much you can save over disposable AND not add to landfills it's a great idea!

Here is Grace in a prefold cloth diaper with a cute flower cover. I think I got them too big because they are really bulky and give her a huge booty!

She doesn't like to wait for me to figure out how to put them on her but then she's impatient for disposables too. But once I get it on her she's fine. We've had a few leaks but again, that's operator error as I'm still learning.

The All In One diapers (bumgenious) are great! they don't leak and she can wear them all night. I have enough to diaper her for two days but not really enough for long term. The great thing is that #2 can use these too! I'll slowly add to the stash and if we decide this is for us you'll see some new favorite blogs on the sidebar. :)

Dirt

I started sorting prepregnancy and baby clothes yesterday. Grace has been blessed with MANY clothes from friends. I wanted to get a head start on making sure they were all organized by size so if this next one is a girl I'll be ready. And I've had some prepregnancy clothes in tubs since I was pregnant with Grace! So it was time to purge. :)

I gave Grace some chalk and let her have a ball. She loved playing with it.

She also liked putting it on her face! Can you see it in this picture? Her lips are a beautiful color of pink, blue, and purple.

We were outside probably too long. It started sprinkling and while we were dry in the garage, Grace ventured out to the driveway. And sat down. And got very very dirty. Then touched her face.

So to add to the colors of chalk we had a nice brown/black going on.

Here she is showing you her face and hands before her bath!