Happy Halloween

One of Gracie's favorite things to do is climb on us when we're laying on the floor. Then she purposely falls off and thinks it's hilarious.

I don't know what she's doing here other than being adorable.

Saturday morning we took the girls to Pinehaven. It was a lot of fun and Gracie really like the animals and the popcorn.

These are the Scottish Highland Cattle. I love them.

That night Grandma LuAnne came over to babysit so we could go to our Halloween parties. We both dressed in old cosutmes.

Our first stop was at my parents house where sister Elly was throwing a party. She was Pocohontas. The braids are real.

Here's sister Erin and her dude Jesse. I don't know what's up with the flames in this picture but they're wicked cool.

Then we went to Sam & James' party. The guy with the nose was scary.

Movies, shopping and family

This is Gracie's reaction to the adorable kids in her favorite disney sing along movie. She's even getting the hand gestures down and knows when to jump and spin. I have a hard time getting her involved in anything other than tv lately. I blame others.

Last night she got to meet her maternal great grandparents from Ohio for the first time. Here she's delivering some barrels to Grandpa Len.

Here we have four generations of women. Dave took the photo so we'll blame him for the off-centered shot.

Last week she got her first haircut. The bangs were poking the eyes. Grandpa Steve did a super job. Being that he's a professional, well, duh!

She also got to visit with her Auntie Pammy from Florida.

The next day we had lunch at Denny's and went shopping with Elsa and Jessie. I forgot the stroller so we rented an awesome oversized stroller with a steering wheel. It was worth the 3 bucks and Gracie really got into driving it around. We were browsing for winter gear for my munchkin.

Glad I didn't spend the dough. I thought it would be too big but this loaner fits her pretty well. I think it was Henry's. Thanx dude!

And for good measure, more bath pictures. She likes eating the bubbles.

She's doing her crazy legs dance on the bath matt here. And I know it looks like there's something very wrong but I blurped it out as to not offend anyone out there who might think it's wrong to take naked pics of kids. She's just a baby! Look at that toad tummy! (I'm sure Julie loves that comparison).

The end.

So go learn karate!

Gracie has her 1st ear infection. But you can see she's still crazy and it's not affecting her happiness to any degree whatsoever. All my friends who have baby blogs give out stats so I guess I better be a copycat. I left the sheet at home with the exact numbers so this may be off a degree or two.

Wt. 21.3 lbs - 25%

Ht. 30 inches - 37% (I think this is wrong, she was measured laying down on a piece of paper without being stretched out)

Head Crc. I don't remember but it was in the 80th percentile so her head size is good, the rest of her is puny!

And here she is again with one shoe. She walks around like that all day if you let her. She's nutty.

Meeeeow!

Gracie is 15 moths old today. She has her Dr. appt. tomorrow. Here is Miss Gracie being speedy! She's a runnin' fool!

Here she's showing off her ONE shoe. Although, with the pink sock, it's hard to tell she's even wearing a shoe.

She's also suddenly very fond of playing with socks.

This was the first day I put a pony tail in her hair. It was also the first day I've actually seen her watching tv. I believe it was veggie tales. She's also learned to get up and down from chairs quite well. We've had our spills but remarkably, she's quite agile.

Like her friend Maddy, she loooves ravioli. Dad cleaned her up and it was straight into the bath.

This picture is also on Henry's blog but mine turned out better. I don't know what Dave is thinking here. He looks like he's about to beat the life out of poor Henry, although I assure you, he would never do such a thing. Gracie's just enjoying somebody elses toys.

We give Gracie rides in the diaper box while she still fits.

Normally she hits the cat but she's also begun to hit me. Being that I don't think I could bring myself to spank and I can't stand those people who scream at their children, my friends suggested TIME OUT! Now she's sweet to the cat. In the picture below, she was hugging/laying on Romeo and he's desperately trying to escape. So it sorta looks like she's smelling his rear. That cat is a lifesaver. Normally when my alarm clock goes off in the morning, he's right up there licking / biting my face trying to get me up to feed him. Last night I forgot to turn on my clock but he woke me up this morning with a lovely chomp on the arm so I wasn't too late for work.

Gracie usually naps after daycare and when she wakes it's time for dinner and then it's dark. So it may not look like she gets any fresh air but we DO get outside together on the weekends, weather permitting of course.