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Grace is 4 Months Old!

It’s hard to believe Grace has been in our lives for 4 months already. She has done a lot of growing over the past 4 months and is gaining new skills every day. Plus, she is so much fun to be with. We had her 4 month check up today and she is sprouting up like a weed. She’s now 25.5 inches long (90th percentile) and 12.5 pounds (50th percentile). At her appointment last month she was only 50th in height and between the 10th and 25th percentile in weight. That’s quite a bit of growing in the last 4 weeks! She is officially a long, skinny baby and is still wearing some of her newborn pants since they still fit her around the waist. Of course, they are total highwaters……the beginning of a lifetime of highwater pants I’m afraid.

She has been doing a lot of babbling and screeching and loves to tell us about her night full of dreams when she wakes up in the morning. That is probably her most talkative time of the day. Unfortunately there were also a few nights in a row where she decided to be talkative at 2am. That was a little less fun for us but she totally enjoyed herself.

We started going back to church and she, of course, has to be in her Sunday best. I have the cutest pair of tights for her and the grandmas in the church nursery just eat them up. I/we finally worked up enough courage to leave her in the nursery a few weeks ago for the service and it was WONDERFUL!!! Needless to say, she is a regular in the nursery now. She also seems to enjoy it and usually gets held by someone the entire time. Is it wrong that the free childcare can sometimes be a modivator to make it to church on Sunday morning??

Family Picture Day

OK, so I am WAY behind in posting to 'ye ole blog'. This girl keeps me busy. I must say, I am very sad that our dry, cool, crisp, sunny fall days are gone..sniff, sniff. Even though it was only about a week of beautiful fall weather, I enjoyed every minute of it. Fall is, without a doubt, my favorite season of the year. The only problem is, the season lasts all of 2 weeks in Oregon before the rain and wind come and blow all the leafs from the trees and turn the season into winter over night.

We did manage to take advantage of one of the days last week and cruised down to a local park and took some family pictures. It was fun and Grace was in a pretty good mood, although she didn't like looking into the sun. Let me paint the picture for you....It was Aaron, Grace and I and our trusty old tripod and self-set timer on the camera. I think poor Aaron probably logged about a mile of run/walking between the camera and us trying to get a picture where Grace was actually looking at the camera. She is such a tease. She would look at the camera for the first 9 seconds and then turn her head away quickly on second 10 when the camera actually snapped the shot. Oh well, we managed to get a few keepers. I must say, they are the most precious pictures I own!! Here is one of my favorite with her...

I love this next shot. Makes her look so smart :-) She has recently started to like her books and really loves story time just before bed. This is a picture of her taking matters into her own hands since it wasn't bed time yet.

Not really much else to report. I am SO GLAD that elections are over. I was about ready to go out and finally buy TiVo just to avoid those commercials. Seriously, these people must spend a fortune on making themselves look good and others look bad.

I can't believe I don't have more to write, especially after taking a week off of blogging. Man, my life is totally uneventful!