Our Lil' Lovebug: Well....

Ok, so I know it has been awhile since I posted a blog...but as always we have been busy. Our 4th of July was good and bad. The bad parts started on the 3rd when we found out that our long planned vacation with our best friends in North Carolina has to be cancelled because Matt is unable to do take vacation due to a last minute mandatory inspection. This is seriously a bummer. We have been looking forward to seeing Mike, Liz, and Sophia for so long. We are incredibly disappointed that we won't be able to share a week with them. Although, this is the cold hard truth living the military life. Hopefully we will get to see them soon, we miss them so much.

On the other hand, on the 4th we drove to San Antonio. Poor Amy was not feeling well at all but was a good sport the whole trip. Once we got to San Antonio we found out that our hotel we booked had a booking problem and we were out of a hotel. Thankfully we found another one that was actually more adequate for our needs. The best part was that we got to see our other best friends Mariah, Ryan, and Chloe. We went to dinner and hung out for awhile. It was great to catch up with them. We took Daisy with us and let me tell you that Chloe and Daisy played all night long. I don't think that Daisy has been that tired in a long long time.

Then the weekend got bad. Let's just say that we all were sick on Saturday and we had plans to go to Seaworld. Gracie and I felt good Saturday morning, so we headed over there to meet Mariah, Ryan, and Chloe. After a few hours, I was feeling horrible and decided to head back to the hotel. That is where we stayed until the next morning when our stomach bug finally worked it's way out of us and we started back home. It was not the way I imagined spending my nice long weekend nor Amy's last weekend with us. All in all, it really was a two fold weekend...both good and bad.

On another hand, Gracie is doing well. She has a small ear infection which means antibiotics. She is weighing in at 17 lbs but hasn't grown any in the last month...she is still 26 1/2 inches long. She is preparing to crawl by rocking back and forth on her hands and knees. Mobility is around the corner and we are so not ready for it. I was telling Matt the other day that we are going to have spend next weekend baby proofing the house. She is such a ham too. The older she gets the more her personality comes out. Gracie is such a happy baby. Every time I pick her up from school they always tell me that she is such a great baby and a joy to have in their room. We really lucked out with her teachers.

Where she is a ham, she is also a stinker. This morning I was giving her medicine and I had a baby wipe handy so I could clean her up before she had a sticky mess every where. Well, apparently I didn't move the package of baby wipes far enough away from there because I got up to throw the icky one away and by the time I went back to where she was sitting on the floor, she had ripped half of the wipes out of the package. Then she looked up at me with a great big smile as if saying "See Mommy, you give me the medicine I don't like, this is what you get!" I couldn't help but laugh at her. Gracie has also started to object to things if it is not her way. For example, I took the wipes away from her and you would have thought I had committed the worst crime of the century.

Well, I have talked your ears off enough so I am going to let you go. Here are a few pictures from our weekend! Enjoy!

Gracie enjoying the ride to San Antonio! She is such a good traveler!