My Gracie

This is Gracie's crazy bed head from a nap last week. Maybe I am just getting close to having another one and the hormones are raging, but I fall more and more in love with this little face everyday. Life changes so fast and I know everyone says it, but I am so determined to not let it fly by me and start saying it when she is 25. I want to appreciate every moment, every smile, every crazy hair day. She is becoming a little girl. She walks and tries to run. She can reach up on the counters and tables. She is figuring things out and what the normal routine is. We just need to work on this whole talking business. Everyone says you want them to talk so bad and then you just want them to stop. But I want to hear her voice and what she has to say. I love her little laugh. Today she was singing a song and it was so cute. It drives me crazy how many times I have to put the high chair tray back, but she loves to walk around with it so much. I want her to enjoy and love life...all of it. I love how she gets a kick out of so many things already. Feeling the breeze on her face and in her hair. Pretending to be shy every night when her dad comes home. Getting excited to have her milk first thing in the morning. Once, we get up stairs, running into her room to get her pacifier and her bunny. (Those chubby little legs waddle in her room with her head down at the ground. Sitting next to me (she doesn't fit on my lap anymore) in the rocking chair, listening to the radio and singing her lullaby. The way she chews on EVERYTHING. How I taught her to play with the teeth on a comb and she does it everytime she takes a bath. The look she gets in her eyes when she comes around the corner and I am there. Her face lights up with a smile and you hear this adorable giggle. The way she stands her ground but smiles and turns her head when the dogs come up next to her. How she isn't tall enough to see out the window of the car, but tries so hard to see my mom walking up. All these things make her laugh and smile. I love everything she does and don't ever want any of it to get old, because I know as soon as it does...she won't be doing it anymore. She will be on to the next thing. There is so much that she doesn't understand, hasn't experienced or been able to see. I can't wait to show and teach her new things. To watch her experience and learn how things work for the first time. To watch her face as she understands something that she has looked at a million times, but now she gets how it works or what it does. But for now I am loving and enjoying everyday and the changes that they bring. Gracie you are such a blessing and I love every minute that we share.