Holy Smokes! It's February already!

The last post I wrote was from before the holidays. They came and went so fast! Now it is almost March! Time goes by so much faster the older you get.

Gracie has been growing so much, physically AND developmentally. She was engaged during Christmas. She is waving Hi and Bye 95% of the time. She loved helping me decorate the trees! I think the trees were her favorite things. She took an interest in opening her presents.
She has been sleeping in her crib- with one side off to make it like a day bed. With the help of a gate she stays in her room all night. The last few months have been touch and go with sleeping. For every time she sleeps through the night, she goes 2 waking up at 3AM. But she is very proud of her new bed!

Her Favorite christmas presents were a new collection of gear toys that she loves and a picture of her favorite Quirky Quail ( that she found on one of her ABC games-That's what she is looking at here<)

the quirky quail

Her new passion is painting- herself.

She is picking up on her signing really well and starting to make vocalizations along with the signs. She tries to say Hi and mouth and nose and bubble and take off and so many other things. I wouldn't be surprised if her first words are about her favorite quirky quail.  "A quail is a Quirky bird"
We got a new addition to the family. Well, to our extended family. We got a chihuahua girl for Aunt Peewee and Uncle Roger. We didn't want to give her away because she is so sweet, but we did. ;( But we are going to steal her soon, like they used to steal Buca.

She likes to paint now, although she really prefers that her arms and hands be her canvas.

We have been experimenting with food and she has been accepting. No, she is not eating pizza or peanut butter and jelly, as her father wants her to. But we are doing chunkier textures, and she just started eating pastina this week. She pushes it down to the other side of the table but she lets me get it in her mouth!!!

She is going out more and doing things. We went to one of Joy's basketball games and she was great.
She made a new friend (above) at a birthday party, of a sort. Then, though , this weekend we had a setback when we went to a loud, busy restaurant to celebrate Aunt Peewee's birthday. To be fair, she was sick most of the week, so I didn't expect it to go that well.

I know it probably doesn't seem like much but she makes advancements every day. We are blessed with THE BEST team of therapists and councilors that we could get.
I will try to post more often because there is so much going on. Someday, I'll be able to right about her first words. We hope.