Gracie is now officially a "Big Kid," why, because she goes to the big kid school! Well duh, so simple huh! This sarcasm comes directly from the mouth of you guessed it, Miss Gracin Lynn! :)
Aside from the sarcastic little girl.... She is growing up fast and we are so proud of her. She may be um, shall I say, strong willed.... but is very smart (perhaps too smart). It is bittersweet to send her off to Kindergarten, on one side I will have a few somewhat less hectic hours during the week, and on the other side I will miss her! :)
Last year for Gracie's 4th Birthday her Grandma Joyce got her a big girl bike, complete with all the girly pink streamers and basket. Of course it had training wheels which was a good thing because her feet barely touched the ground with it. In true Gracie fashion, she got the hang of riding it and had to push all limits of speed barriers and gravity. One year and a few months later, the rear tire was bald and barely holding air from her "skid stopping" and the welds on the training wheels were broken, bent and worn almost completely off.
Needless to say it was time for a new tire, but convincing Gracie the training wheels had to go was another story. So the smart parents we are (trying to outwit her) we told her that without training wheels and putting on a new tire, she would be able to race everyone else on their bikes! Yeah well, you know Gracie!
She is letting me know she has it under control.....
It dawned on me that school starts in 4 weeks, and July is all but gone and I don't know where the heck it went??? Well I guess part of it went to having a new baby......
Well today was my "1st" day all by myself with Gracin & Presley, no hubby, no moms/grandma's, nada! The day is half done and we are all still alive, just arrived a little late to swimming this morning with a very unhappy and hungry baby who let me know my timing was off this morning all 14 miles down Nephi Canyon...... But, I will get it together and figure out how to find some balance. I just have to say, any mom who has more than 1 child is either superwomen or way more together than I am and my hat is off to you all!
Aside from that, sorry for the lack of pictures, I will try to update the blog weekly.....
Our little girl Presley Ann has arrived! It was a few days ago, sorry on the late notice....
Presley Ann was born on July 4th at 3:36PM. She weighed 7lbs 8oz and was 19" long.
Miss Gracin is thoroughly ecstatic to have her baby sister here and is loving every minute of it!
As for myself and Brian we are adjusting to having two adorable little girls, although it may take some time to adjust.... :) Our little family is now complete!
So if you did not know, UT has been exceptionally HOT this spring/summer. In order to keep a 5 year old and a very pregnant mom happy, I reluctantly bought a blow up kiddie pool. I say reluctantly because it is quite difficult to keep a pool clean with the amount of wind and fires we have right now. I would much prefer a slip'n slide or something! But it's hot and ya gotta find ways to cool down! Anyway, another hot day is among us and the plan this morning was to dump and clean the pool out and try to convince Gracie we should just play in the sprinklers today! Like usual, she had other plans.......
What an exciting, crazy busy week it’s been and it’s only Wednesday!
A lot has happened so far this week (aside from Brian’s pliers’ incident).
Gracie had Kindergarten registration and testing on Monday, passed everything
with flying colors even the hearing portion (so we know she can hear us she just chooses not to
listen…). Tuesday, wow Tuesday…started by Brian and I getting a crash course in
having 2 girls. We babysat the neighbors baby for a few hours and it went
pretty well. So hopefully that means we are ready cause I don’t think we can
turn back now! :) Then it was off for a doctor appointment to check on our
baby, everything looks good, she is growing rapidly of course. They will be doing one last
U/S next week to check her lungs and the fluid level around her then we will be making a
delivery decision! Then we had to rush back for two dress rehearsals for Gracie’s
Dance group. In between rehearsals, hair and makeup we were able to scarf down
some dinner then it was off to the recital! And Wednesday, Pre-School
Graduation which means the last day of school and it’s now summer break! Oh
yeah, and somewhere in the mix of all of it, was work….
Such a crazy busy week filled with so much emotion, mainly happiness
and being very proud of our little girl!
Here are some of the exciting times! One of which is the "Daddy Daughter" dance, yes Brian actually had to get up in front of people and DANCE, well kinda! The video stinks because I could not get a good spot to record, but at least I did get some of it! Even with crappy video, it was adorable to see Gracie and her daddy dancing together!
One of the other dances the girls did was "Fireworks" and it included sequin shirts and pom poms! What little girl does not love that!
At the very end of the recital there were awards from the year, and to our surprise Gracie won an award! She won "Most Improved Dancer" for her division. Here she is getting her award and holding up her prize!
And today's Pre-School graduation! The kids had a cute little ceremony which included them singing to us, and then it was down to business with their diplomas! :)
That pretty much wraps it up! Things should settle down now that school is out and we only have T-Ball and a new baby on the way, right????? :)
