Priceless…

 

               Diapers- $35 for a box of 100

Pull Up’s- $20 for a box of 58

NEVER having to use diapers or pull-ups again on this little bottom: PRICELESS!!!!

You read that right, this little one did her BIG business on the potty after school today. I am SO PROUD! (She is too!) The full story and and all the fun details coming soon….

Gracie

I know she will hate me when she’s older but I just couldn’t resist. Our little Gracie is doing unbelievably good using the potty. She still wears pull-ups during the day (at school) but has been staying completely dry and telling that she needs to potty. Yea!
Now she is just tee-tee trained, the ‘p’ hasn’t come yet. So I won’t consider her officially ‘trained’ until she does both but I just can’t believe it’s been going on all week. This weekend I’ll break out the panties again and hope to keep it going, going, gone pull-ups!!

When she’s done her business she moves her potty stool over and washes her hands too.

Keep it up Gracie!!!

Let's Go Out to the Movies...

We decided to do something very bold and daring on our 6th anniversary, we took Gracie to see her very 1st movie!! It has just been raining non stop here so we thought it would be fun to get out and see a show. Kelly really wanted to see Toy Story 3 so that's where we headed. He really wanted the 3-D but I didn't think it was worth the extra $$ paying for her and glasses if she could fussy and had to maybe leave. I had been telling her all day that we were going so she was so excited. She took an extra good nap which meant she was in a piss poor mood :)

                                           caught her :)

waiting for popcorn! It was super crowded so I took her in while Kelly stood in line. I happened to find 3 seats together. Lucky! No pictures inside because there were too many people. Gracie really wanted to sit in her own seat. She tried but poor thing didn't weigh enough to keep the seat down so it folded in 1/2 and only her head and little feet her sticking out! She said  'Whoa, Whoa, help Mommy!" So she pretty much stayed in my lap for the rest. I really wished I had brought in a little pillow for her. I tried using my purse for her to lean back on but that wasn't comfortable for her.

        We all gave the movie 2 thumbs up. It was cute. I thought it was a little too long though. Way too many previews then they had this 6 minute movie clip and that was dumb. Luckily we had popcorn and lots of snacks. She thought that was just so fun. She didn't get scared at all like I thought she would. She literally sat still in my lap for about 1 full hour. Then she wanted down for a minute then back in my lap for the rest. In the movie there is a toy baby. She loved it the best. She'd say "Hey, where did the baby go?" Then he came back on and she said (loudly during a quiet time) "There's the baby!!" I gave her a snack size of M& M's and she loved that too. She said "Daddy, want some MM's?" When it was almost over she said "I ready to go home now." I think she had had enough. She never fussed or whined though. She was really sooooo good! We were so happy!!

She was so ready to get out and walk around again!

She said "I ready to go home now. I watch a show??"

Still didn't want her picture taken. I can't wait to show her all these one day when she is older!!

Caught her talking on the phone to Maxum. I said "I got you!" and she said "Yes, you did!"

So, that was our anniversary night but the good news is that we are really celebrating it tonight by getting to go away for a night. We are not going far away but it will still be so fun. GG and Pop are keeping her for the night. Yea!!

I Do It Myself

Gracie has gotten into this phase recently that she likes to do things all by herself. She gets really snappy about it too. She now puts on shoes and socks pretty much all by herself. It is nice but sometimes in the mornings when we are late I’m just like “Let me do it!” and it causes a few battles.

This morning she insisted on dressing herself.

It’s hard to tell but she has both her legs in one leg hole.

Bless Her Little Heart! She had no clue at all!  That could not have been comfortable.

I guess I should be happy that she put her shoes on the right feet :)

Movin’ On Up

I actually wrote this post about 2 weeks ago but have never gotten around to posting it!

For awhile now I had planned on moving Gracie into her big girl bed over our Christmas break. I’m big into planning things out and I wanted her to have plenty of time to transition into her new bed and us to have time off (a.k.a: not lose too much sleep!) to get used to it all. Back in Sept. my parents rearranged some things at their house and took down their crib at their house so Gracie had been sleeping in a day bed. She had no problems at all. So I decided, why not go ahead and move her right now? We made the big switcharoo on a Saturday so here she is sleeping the last time (sniff, sniff) in her crib.

See the corner she’s all smooshed in below? That’s where she always is/was sleeping!

Her crib actually converts into a full size bed once you buy the mattress and size rails. I just didn’t think she was quite ready for that big of a bed yet. We went ahead and moved her into the day bed we’ve had in our office. It was my Mimi’s and I’ve had it since I graduated from college. It will be perfect for her because we can get a pop out trundle bed later on for when she has friends sleep over :) As soon as she crashed Friday night Kelly and I started taking the day bed apart in the office and got things ready for the next day. (My husband wanted all of this *work* done before the big footfall games on tv!)

Saturday morning as soon as she woke up (around 6:30) we started moving!

Her crib was easy to take apart and move out.

Then we got the frame of the day bed moved in. That thing is heavy!

Look at the mess we made in the loft area! Here is Kelly showing Gracie some of his old toys that he just knows are going to be worth $$ some day!!

As soon as we put the mattress down and I put the sheets on the bed, we hauled off to the pumpkin patch, ate lunch, and then brought her back for her 1st nap in her new bed. How’d she do?

AWESOME!!

She slept 2 and 1/2 hours!!

I did have my doubts at first (Kelly was doubting me) because Gracie has always been such a good sleeper. We were taking a big chance that she’d turn into a bad sleeper or start getting out of bed. We do use this ugly lovely bed guard so she can’t roll out. We also switched her to the other end of the bed too, she did herself… It has just been the perfect transition. The only hard thing is that when she used to cry a little I always knew in her crib she was okay, now in her bed I feel like I have to go in there to get her situated. She does loose her pacie more and her lambie more :( Other than that, it’s been great. We haven’t lost too much sleep!!

I searched and searched for cute bedding to go with her already adorable room. I am not ready to re-do her room completely yet from the black and white/pink so I’m still on the hunt for cute bedding. For now I got really cute princess sheets from Target that have hearts and ballerina slippers and crowns on it. Plus a pink crown blanket. Eventually I’ll rearrange her furniture and get things together but for now it’s perfect for her and I’m so happy!!

And for those of you who have been noticing that we now have a lot of empty/un-used “baby” stuff -don’t even think about it. We are not planning on any new little Gaugers any time soon! We like our little family they way it is right now :)

Our next big task: saying bye-bye to Gracie’s assie (pacie!) She only has it at naps/bedtime but it’s time for it to go. I think we will wait for Christmas break for that one :)

Update: Just last weekend I found a really cute bedspread for her. I haven’t even put it on her bed yet but when I do I’ll post the new pictures!