Both me and Kevin are home sick today. It's the cold that never ends.

Freezing! 5 degrees with -14 windchill.

Looking forward to the weekend - lots of fun planned!

Wheeee!

Wheeee!
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See Grace fly!

She did it!

Today Grace worked up the courage to go on the body slides by herself. Twice. I'm sad that I wasn't there to witness it, but so proud that she found the faith in herself to do it. You go Gracie!

I'm certain that I will see her go on the body slides many many many times in our lifetime.

Dunkin Donuts - an Ode to Paige M

Grace wanted to get donuts this morning. I said we should pick them up on a day that Bryce and Trey were going to be there.
"And Paigey?" she said.
"She's not coming anymore, Grace." I told her.
"We could e-mail them to her."

The Girlies

We had this made for my parents for Christmas. I wish my in-laws were a little closer so we could do something like this for them.

Christmas Picture

I had only 1 made - and I'm not sure where I put it after I scanned it. Lord help me.

Trying out another new way to post

I've got a new version of software that's supposed to let me post directly to my blog without actually signing in to my blog, so this is a test post. I'm hoping this will help me to get to do some more elaborate formatting without having to learn much about HTML coding. We'll see how it goes. Let's include a picture for fun, eh?

Run Grace! Run!

I don't think this moment held any magic for Grace. She's a little young for this to have any mystique. But her dad did get to live vicariously through her. :-)

Father's Day

Daddy & Grace at Comiskey Park on Father's Day 2008. Go White Sox!

Happy Birthday

It's hard to believe she's 5 already. She's getting to be so grown up. I keep telling her this is going to be a year of great things for her. She's already done so much. She's lost her first tooth, she's taken piano lessons, basketball, soccer, t-ball, dance, learned to swim, and is starting to learn to ride a bike without training wheels. She's also starting to learn to read. All before a day of kindergarten. I'm so proud of her.

Butterflies

They study butterflies every year at daycare. They order caterpillers, then watch them morph into butterflies and release them. Isn't it cool that they get to hold a butterfly? It's not often you get to do that, huh?

June 22, 2007 - Brookfield Zoo

Butterfly garden. Look carefully at the flowers and you'll see the butterflies!

Dec 17, 2007 - Yorktown Mall

This was a clever pose.

Dec 17, 2007 - Yorktown Mall

Kelly, Grace & Rachel

Dec 17, 2007 - Yorktown Mall

Here's a picture from my phone. We took these as we were waiting to have professional pictures done of the girls. I need to get those scanned in and posted here also.

Pony ride

She doesn't even need mom to stand by her any more

Johannsen's Farm 2007

Another 80 degree day in October. :-D

Kinder Keys

Grace started her Kinder Keys class last Thursday. She said she really loved it and wanted to go again the next night. Fortunately for me it's only one night a week - Thursdays.

On the way home she was feeling slighted. She asked me, "How come I don't have a piano?" And, "How come everyone has a piano except me?" Here we go! She evidently feels that she's underprivileged. It's easy to understand why. (Can you hear the sarcasm in my tone?)

But, seriously. I think I'll be taking her out to buy her a keyboard tonight. I did not know a single thing about piano class before this. I've never played, nor has anyone in my family. So, my initiation was during the first class. The instructor did say that she'd like them to practice between classes. Keyboards aren't that expensive, so I think we'll go ahead and get one. If it doesn't work out, we can donate it or something.