Painting Toes, Popsicles and Laundry

This week started out with some toe painting. Grace loved squishing the paint around and between her toes. We had to spend some time soaking in warm water to get all the paint off of her little feet. The paintings are hanging up in the playroom. They look great!

 This girl is just growing so fast! She is still weighing in at right above 14 lbs. She eats breakfast now, her favorite breakfast is bananas or applesauce. She also eats dinner each night. At dinner time she likes plums, sweet potato, avocado and squash! Grace is still wearing 3-6 month clothes. We have not even brought down the 6-9 month box. I think 3-6 month clothes go all the way to 16.5 lbs. Grace is also crawling now! Still on her belly, but she can get anywhere she wants and pretty quick. Mommy is having to adjust to keeping an eye on Grace ALL the time. So she stays safe!

 Grace loves those socks! We tease her and say "Grace, just put a sock in it!" And what do you know.. the sock comes off and in the mouth. Daddy and Mommy are very thankful that it is almost summer so Grace's toes wont freeze seeing as how they are always out in the open!

 YUMMY!!! This weekend we went to downtown Durham's art walk with Uncle Taylor. Mommy shared her very berry Popsicle with Grace. Grace LOVED it. It was delicious. As you can see we made quite the mess. Thank you Uncle Taylor for showing us such a great time!

 Grace is also very helpful now with around the house chores. Today we folded lots and lots of laundry! Grace actually peed out of her diaper last night and had a middle of the night sheet/clothes change so we had an unexpected amount of laundry to do today! Good thing she was so helpful crawling into the laundry basket to get out that last sock!

 Wanted to get these last two pictures in. Often Mommy takes pictures with her phone just to send to family, especially Daddy. Grace now really notices Athens, she often laughs at him and tries to get to him. She actually gave him one of her toys through the gate this week... which he tried to take outside and bury. Good think Mommy was on the look out! The second picture is of Grace and her friend Caleb. She loved going over to his house and exploring all of his cool toys!!! There were so many new things to put in her mouth!

 

All in all it was another amazing week sweet girl. I can't believe you will be 7 months old soon! 6 months still feels like my baby, but 7 months is the start of being a little person. I just love you so much! You actually just woke up and you are not happy that I have not come and gotten you yet, so I need to go. I love you sweet girl.

xoxo

Mommy & Daddy

Grandma & Grandpa

This weekend Grandma and Grandpa Macaluso came to visit Grace. We had so much fun! We were able to go to Duke and see some really cool singing in the Duke Chapel. It was beautiful! We also got up to Chapel Hill and visited a neat store called Southern Savers. All in all we had a great time and Grace got to spend some quality time with her grandparents! Thanks for coming all the way from Ohio to visit us!

Uncle Taylor also moved to Durham this week. We will miss having him right around the corner, but his new loft is really cool! Grace got to visit it the first day he moved in. It is looking great!

Sweet girl, you are the light of our lives. You are moving and squirming all over the place. We love you so much our munchkin.

xoxo

Mommy & Daddy

EKG & Applesauce Paint

My girl, you are getting so big and so capable! You actually army crawl now! Of course the only way we can get Grace to go across the floor is if she is chasing a cell phone, but still. Pretty amazing. This week was full of nerves and complete amazement.This week Grace started taking new medication for her hemangiomas. In order to start the new medicine an EKG was necessary as well as getting blood drawn. The new medication is called propranolol. It was originally used as a blood pressure medicine, but has been proven to do amazing things on hemangiomas in infants. Seeing Grace hooked up to all those machines was both very scary and also so completely reassuring. Some families have to see their little one hooked up to machines on a daily basis. It reminds us how blessed we truly are. Grace handled it like a trooper. She was calm and still. She did try to pull the cords off once, but we held her hands and she didn't try again. We have started the medicine and it does not seem to effect you negatively. We will continue to monitor it and make the best decisions that we can. We love you little g.

Grace wears Mommy out. This is what some of our mornings look like. Got to love Grace's 6am internal alarm clock. Mom's is not quite so early, but we manage.


After our day at DUKE hospital testing we decided to have some fun the next day. We mixed applesauce with food coloring and Grace loved it! Of course her mouth was on the plates several times but just the feel of the sticky applesauce was a neat new thing for her. We did have to soak in the tub for a while afterwards... getting blue food coloring off of our hands is not so easy. =)


Oh the back of your head child! You actually have hair on it now, but the hair growing in is very, very, very, blonde! So it still looks like its bald. We wonder if you will always have a dark ring of hair around your white blonde hair in the middle. lol. Don't worry. I'm sure by the time you are 13 it will all look even.



Standing! We are really working on standing up and balancing. Grace has such strong muscles. She can hold all her own weight. She can even balance now if she is focused. However if something catches her attention to the left or right, she looks and then falls over. =) Good thing Mommy was right there to catch her!


You make me the happiest Mommy in the world. Your smiles, your stares like I'm crazy, even your cries make me know this is the job I was made for; being Grace's Mom. I love you little one.

xoxo

Mommy & Daddy