Grace and Lyla sleep together most nights. They are harder to get to sleep when they are together but I like that they feel close to each other. I want them to stay as close as possible through those mean teenage years. I'm hoping this early bonding time will help a little. The other morning when I went in to wake them up they were sleeping face to face. Pretty sweet.
We had Grace's family birthday party on the Saturday after her birthday. Mom, Dad, Joni, and Julie and all of the kids came. Unfortunately, Eric's parents couldn't make it. Grace and Lyla were sad about that. The kids had fun being crazy and playing. They started "dancing" and being silly. I got some silly pictures of that. Reesi is a wild woman! Little Easton was a hoot too. He really likes his Lyla. She is good at playing with him and paying attention to him. Grace got a real diaper bag with real baby stuff in it from Mimi and Papoo. She asked for that to play with her baby doll. Julie gave her a new canopy baby doll bed. Joni gave her a bunch of hair accessories. She wears them just about every day. She also got a couple of books but I missed who they were from. She had a Rapunzel cake and we bought Subway sandwiches for dinner. That is what she wanted. She loves Subway. So, it was a good evening. My little girl is getting so big and I don't want to accept that she's really 9 years old! I'll do a post soon about what Grace is like at this age.
Grace's real birthday was on a Tuesday this year. She wanted to open her presented first thing int he morning. She got some flip flop house shoes, a new lunch bag and a Rapunzel doll from the movie Tangled. Eric, Mimi, Elye and myself went to the school that day for lunch. We brought a big cookie cake to share with her friends. That what she has had at school for her birthday every year since kindergarten. Every year I think she will want something different, but not so far. The cookie is dangerously good though! That evening at home we went to Subway for dinner, her favorite place, and let her blow out some candles too. I think she had a pretty good birthday regardless of having to go to school and do homework.
Grace presented her first book report today. She did a great job preparing and gathering facts all by herself. I wa very proud!
Jingle Bell is now 4lbs. 9oz. She is full of energy and loves to bite!!! That is her form of play right now. We'll all be glad when she grows out of that or learns to not bite so hard. She literally will run behind you and bite your heels! She has also made my nose bleed twice by biting it! Yes, I know, I need to keep her out of my face. The potty training is catching on as long as we're downstairs. When we go upstairs she doesn't bother to make the trip down to get to the yard! She loves to eat rabbit poop! Yuck! It totally grosses me out. For some reason, we now have a rabbit using our backyard as a bathroom that has never done that before. The vet says to just try and keep it scooped up but it won't really hurt her. She likes to dig in the dirt in the backyard too. Her white fur gets dirty very fast these days. She is a cutie and so fluffy but is a little stinker right now. I'm looking into training classes!
