Grace is 5 months old

It's hard to believe Gracie celebrated her 5 month birthday this past Saturday. We got some real snow yesterday (you know, the kind that actually sticks on the ground). I was hoping to go out and build a little snowman family, but it was a toasty 21 degrees today (7 degrees including the wind chill factor) and neither Aaron or I were interested in spending any time outside. Grace is very interested in the snow and loves to yell at it as it falls.

She has been busy getting ready for Christmas and has been on a stakeout in front of the Christmas Tree waiting for Santa. She also loves her little red Santa sleeper. Psssst...Grace. He doens't come for another week!


Our latest adventure has been giving her some solid food. We just started this past week and has sampled sweet potatoes and butternut squash. I made some food a few weeks ago and froze it in ice cube trays. It’s amazing how long it takes her to eat once ice cube size serving. She wasn’t very interested in the sweet potatoes but really liked the squash. She is also obsessed with drinking water from a glass. She thinks she is quite the big girl when she does this. My mom bought some of those little Tupperware cups for her similar to the ones I used as a kiddo. They even came with sippy cup lids, but Grace thinks she is a big girl and refuses to drink from the sippy cup lid – thank you very much.

I call this photo "Squash? What squash?! I don't know what happened to it but I certainly didn't eat it!"

Grace isn't a big fan of 'tummy time' on the floor but really seems to like it in her crib. I think she likes being up high and looking around the room. Aaron snapped this one of her this week while she was playing in her crib.

That's all for now from the Gores. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!