Green Acres & Halloween Party

It was a big week in the Mac household! We started our halloween festivities and Grace started WALKING!!! So much fun and love this week. 

 

Grace still falls asleep on the floor sometimes and we have to go in and move her back to her bed. She is so sleepy when we move her she never really wakes up. Daddy loves holding her while she sleeps. If Mommy wants a turn, I have to sneak in the room when Daddy isn't watching! hehe. We will miss this nightly ritual when she starts falling asleep in her room!

 

Such a big girl! She eats snack at her picnic table. She is really working on balance!

This was the first of our two halloween costumes this year! Grace is a fairy. We had a party at the Little Gym, Grace's gymnastics place. It was so fun to see all the kids dressed up and to have a place to go show off her outfit! She hated the hat so we went ahead and put her hair up for the actual gig.

 

We met up with Auntie Jen at Green Acres Farm on Saturday! Last year Grace was only 11 days old when we went to the farm. This year we got to look at the pumpkins, go on a hayride, and we even went through the corn maze! We found all the numbers 1-5 before it started raining. It was really fun!

 

 

We had some fun playing in the front yard before it got really cold! Grace loved checking out the leaves and sticks. We also decorated the front porch for halloween night.

It was so amazing to see the difference between Grace in a year! I can't believe she is walking now. Well I can believe it, but it is still amazing to see it happen. She is just growing so fast!

Sweet Gracie Girl,

You were such a cute fairy this week and so big at the pumpkin patch! I am so glad I got to spend another week being your Mommy! This week we also started "time outs" you are not allowed to play in the dog water bowl or go out the doggie door. When you do, you sit in time out for 1 minute. Usually you scream, which is the whole point, but then as soon as you get out you go back to playing no problems! Hopefully you will quickly learn to stay away from things that are not safe!!

We will love you until the stars turn to daisies and the dogs all start to moo!

xoxo

Mommy & Daddy

Slowing Down

There are still so many great memories surrounding Grace's 1st birthday. I know I already mentioned how thankful we were that Great Grandmommy got to come visit with us on her special day, but I wanted to post a couple more pictures that I just love! Grace was so fascinated by all of Grandmommy's jewelry. Her awesome pink ribbon pin and her V necklace. They were favorites for sure!

 

This week after the flury of last week pictures we decided to take practically no pictures at all! I laughed this morning when I uploaded my camera and only found 4 pictures, none of which are really great pictures... and almost all Grace helping me clean! We did have a great and busy week but we really just enjoyed living and I forgot to photograph it all. The quick run down for the week.

1. Went to the doctors. Grace is 18 lbs 10 oz and 28 inches tall. She falls in the 10% for weight, no surprise and the 20% for height!

2. Grace took 2 steps! She has now taken 2 steps a couple of different times. Today was actually the most obvious as she took 2 steps into the middle of the room, stopped, bent down and picked something up then sat down gently with it! YAY no big fall at the end!

Ok I told you the pictures weren't great quality! Here is a cute video I took the other day waiting for Daddy to get home. Its so cute because she knows when I open the door after nap it must be time for him to arrive. I don't even say anything, I just open the door and she goes over and starts saying "da da da da"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xuG_Yc7N3g&feature=youtu.be

Sweet Grace,
I can't believe you are so close to walking! It is amazing to watch you become more confident. You have the balance and the mobility to do it, now you just need the courage. I love you sweet girl. Some of my favorite days are just you and me at home watching you explore and play. You now have total access to the entire house (minus the bedrooms/bathrooms which are closed off) and you go everywhere and look at everything! We even opened the couches up so you can get to the playroom through the living room now and you LOVE that. If Daddy is in one room and I am in the other, you go back and forth around and around. It is so cute! I love you all the fish in the sea times all the stars in the sky. You are my sunshine.
xoxo
Mommy & Daddy

Birthday Week

What an amazing week we have had celebrating our little girl! I can't believe that she is already a year old! How did this happen??? This was our last little gym class before the big ONE. Great-Grandmommy came in this day! It was so great that she was here to celebrate with us!

The morning of October 11, 2012. Grace opened the door like every other morning and WOAH - there was something there. She couldn't stop smiling. She had no idea why it was a special day, but she did know that it was special! She also would not cross the streamer line. If we had only known a few streamers would keep her out of an area we could have saved hundreds on baby proofing materials! hehe

On Grace's birthday we went to Durham for lunch with Uncle Taylor, Mimi and Great-Grandmommy. It was fun to take pictures of Grace enjoying all the different sites.

That night we had dinner at our house and celebrated. It took Grace a long time to open each present. She was very interested in the wrapping and boxes and then thoroughly examined each gift. So totally Grace!

Cake SMASH pictures! love them!

 

 

**Special note - J-pa took some amazing pictures this week, capturing all the different moments and yet I realize now that he was so busy taking the pictures we didn't get any with him IN them! So here is proof! He was here and celebrating with us! And of course all the pictures are proof as he was the one who took them. Thanks J-pa. We love you!

We also had Grace's first birthday party this week. It was exactly what Mommy wanted. Great friends, cute babies, good food, football, and some pumpkin decorating. So thankful that we have special people to celebrate with us. Thank you friends.

 

Sweet Grace,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! This week was a whirlwind of emotions, excitement, a little sadness, celebrating, pictures, and partying. I love love love you! You are learning things so quickly and I love it! You really communicate now, my favorite is that you know when you are asked a question you should respond with "no or ya" and you repsond! But you dont know what those words mean yet, which only makes us laugh. We will say, Grace do you want a hug, and you say "no no" and then crawl over for a hug. hehe. You are so sweet. I will love you forever, I will like you for always, forever and always, my Gracie you will be.
xoxo
Mommy & Daddy