1 week down & some new things

Well, we are one week down with Matt and about 8 more to go.  Gracie is handling this whole thing a lot better then I thought.  She loves her Daddy and she loves it even more when her whole family is together.  However, she seems to be adapting great.  We have gotten into a new schedule since, quite honestly, the last couple of months it has been so scattered.  So what better time to rock a new schedule then now?   So this is how our evenings now go.  No matter what, we now start with story time at 7:00 and end with lights out at 8:00.  Tonight we are starting a brand new thing.  This hasn’t happened since she was a tiny infant.  By the advice of our doctor that then turned into habit, Gracie has always been in our room from the time she was a newborn because she needed to sleep elevated to help with this choking thing that is common with babies that are born via c-section.  It was never anything to be of great concern, but still a need turned into a habit.  Now don’t get me wrong, she has been sleeping in her own bed for well over a year now, it just that her bed has been in our room up until now.  To make a long story short, we just didn’t see the need to move it when we thought we were moving in less then 6 months, but now that we are staying put, she is in her own little room and I don’t know think Gracie could be any happier.  We will see how that goes tonight when it is time for night night. 

In other news, Gracie is turning right into a funny little person.  She constantly cracks me up.  Today we were talking to Matt on the phone.  Gracie ran upstairs with the phone to talk to her Daddy.  Well, I went up about 5 minutes later to find our precious little girl talking to her favorite person on the phone.  And she says to me “Hey, what are you doing in my room?”  As if she has complete say as to what goes on in her room.  I was laughing so hard.  I had a flash forward moment of about 10 years!  Is this what I am in for?  If so, wow, I think I will just stay in this phase! ha!

The other day we went to the park and had a few minutes of playing.  Gracie loves playing on the slide and swinging.  Now that it has finally start to cool down a bit, (we are in the lower 80’s finally), I have a feeling we are going to have to start spending more time at the parks.   Here is a few pictures for a bit of a Gracie fix…

Oh how I love this little girl!  Well, it is the beginning of a new week, hopefully this week will be a quick and fast one!