Monday, November 24, 2008

Gracie paints herself


Gracie loves painting and doing anything 'crafty'. This afternoon we painted our pictures and then I went in to wash out the brushes. When I came back in Grace had painted her face and her hands bright blue! I love it. I just had to laugh because she was so excited to show me her creation. Her face is still bright blue, she just had to show Dad when he got home. He laughed as well:)

Yesterday Gracie walked in the room with my purse and says; "Mom, I'm going to San Diego, California. I'll be back later. Love you Mom! -Then- Hi Tom, Hi Monique, Hi Mya! Want to go to the beach?" She has quite the imagination.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Home is the best-

Gracie and I have been home for a whole week now. What a wonderful week!! We babysat for two weeks in Park City. That went well. The kids that we hung out with were great. I took another babysitting job the same day that that job ended. So Thursday morning we dropped one set of kids off at school, took one mom to the airport, got back just in time for the next mom to get in from the airport, Grace was able to squeeze in a nap, take a History exam, then off to pick up a next set of kids, guitar lessons, piano lessons, Jake's done with work, Charity arrives with kids, Michaela, Mark, Seth, Levi, Elaina, sigh...dinner...clean-up, Erika and Ellery come over to visit. So that was an idea of how busy we all were:)
It was great weekend with all of my siblings here, just jam packed. Jake was a saint and he took Gracie while all of my sisters and I went to get facials, manicures, and scalp massages. It was awesome!
Mom's party went well. She walked in about 5 minutes early for her surprise party. Kinda surprised us instead of the other way around. But it was a fun night.
Jake and I are coping with Gracie reverting back to two year old behavior. She's decided that she wants to be potty-trained again because her best friend is. So she just goes the bathroom wherever!! Aaaaaaahhhh:( Frustrating.
For my funny Gracie story of the blog....Gracie wanted to go home with Jake one night while I was in Park City. So I was bringing her over to Jake's work and she was asking me if we were going to Dad's work, when I told her that we were she said; "Mom, are we going to Harm and Evils?" Well the job site is Cam-Harv's so I thought that was what she was saying. Tell about 1/2 hour later I realized that she was referring to when we say prayer in the morning and ask that "no harm or evil will come upon dad" Funny kid! So she does listen to prayers.