Trip to Wabash and Friends in Town

Hello there- we've had a really great couple of weeks. We travelled to Wabash several weeks ago to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of Evan's grandparents. What a fun time. It's been since Christmas since we've stayed in Wabash and we are glad that we made it a long weekend. We got to see almost everybody when we were there. We missed seeing Carl and Katie but hopefully we'll see them soon.

The strawberry festival was being held in Wabash the weekend we were there. Grace really enjoyed taking train rides around the block. She was a little young for the kid activities but got a strawberry tattoo on her arm! Dinner in honor of Bob and Verna Margaret was held at the Honeywell House. It was a really nice dinner and was a lot of fun to get together. I think it's safe to say that everyone was impressed with how big of a girl Grace is. It was neat that she was mostly potty trained too. While in Wabash, we also went down to the barn to see the new baby horses. So cute!

Several days after we returned to Lexington, we had a massive cookout at our house. We've met so many people in town and decided to get everyone together for dinner and fun. We are lucky because the friends that we are meeting have kids Grace's age. It's adorable watching them play and learn together. I think we had a grand total of 21 people at our house. We feel so lucky to have met such nice couples in our neighborhood and in town. We are feeling more at home every day.

Last weekend we also had two friends from Muncie come down (one with her little girl Lauren- also Grace's age). Evan's mom and sister-n-law were also in town for a horse show. We unfortunately weren't able to see Alisa but we did get to spend some time with Mimi. We also had a lot of fun. We again feel so lucky that our friends would make that drive down to see us...especially with gas prices so high. We went to a really neat resturant called Halls on the river. It was a beautiful drive there (and a little scary b/c it was really twisty turny) and the resturant had a great atmosphere and good food. Then on Sunday, we went to the art show called Fransisco Farms. It's held yearly on the Midway college campus and is an outside art exhibit. It was really neat and I bought several pieces of pottery. I can't wait to have another cookout so I can use it.

Party at Chuck E Cheese and look who can wink!

Oh my- look at this silly face! Grace and I have been working really hard on facial expressions last week. She can now make a happy face, sad face, mad face, and I'm not sure what face this is...except for a really silly face! What a character!

She's even learned how to wink- check out the picture below!

We've been continuing to work on potty training. So far, she's doing really well. We've had some accidents but overall, I think she's adapting really well. She wakes up dry from her naps- makes mommy and daddy very happy and proud. She's been in big girl underpants now for 3 days and Evan and I have decided that we are completely finished with diapers. Woo hoo! She generally is accident free throughout the day as long as I remind her to potty every 30-60 minutes. If I don't remind her, she forgets to use her potty chair but she is going longer and longer with no accidents. We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. She seems so much older than 2 now that she no longer wears a diaper.

Grace's little friend Owen turned two last week and we were invited to his birthday party at Chuck E Cheese- what fun! Grace loved riding on the rides. Hard to tell from the pictures but she really enjoyed it. She wasn't sure of Chuck E Cheese when he/she came out to dance. Or of the mouse dancing up on the stage- mainly stayed right next to Evan. I would say that Owen had a really nice party and we were happy to be invited and take part.

Oh- here's the wink picture...ha ha ha. I can't believe she can wink! Hilarous!

We are really looking forward to our trip to Wabash this Wednesday to help Grandmother and Grandad Beauchamp celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. What an admirable milestone!

We also did a lot of finger painting last week. Grace finally is starting to let her hands get dirty. She's quite the budding artist. Hopefully Grandma Pauline passed along her art genes- I also let Grace use scissors for the first time. She really liked the ones that made a jagged cut. She did surprisingly well also-

Love, Jen

It's Potty Time

As you have already heard, Grace has started to potty train. She first went on the potty last Friday, May 30th while Evan was sitting on the floor with her and we've been going strong since. It's quite amazing- she uses her potty and even empties it after she is finished. She still hasn't been able to do a #2 on the potty but we are trying. This is a frequent problem with training but hope that she will do it soon. Before today- we had her wearing training pants to catch any accidents but today, she's been in big girl undies all day. We are 4 days in to training and today she has only had one accident! I think she is doing really well. She can pull her undies up and down all by herself and knows to flush the big potty after she empties hers into it. After she puts her potty back in the potty chair, she washes her hands and then it's back to playing until nature calls again.


She really likes to teach her doll (aka Dolly) to use the potty as well. Since mommy reads Grace stories while she is trying to potty, Grace reads Dolly stories also. What a big girl! She's a very good mommy already.




Over the weekend we made a trip up to Lawrenceburg, IN to visit our friends Jeremy and Shannon. They live right next to Hidden Valley Lake and are lucky to have a beach. Grace didn't really like to get her feet in the sand (as you can see in the picture) or the water, but after some coaxing, she was a natural beach baby. She really enjoyed shoveling sand in the bucket full of water and throwing rocks in the water to see the splash. Later in the day we were able to get her in the water (about thigh height). We are going to try to take her there more often so we can, of course, visit our friends but also so we can get her around water. We don't want her to be scared of water and are lucky to have something so close.

While visiting our friends, we got to play and pet a brand new baby deer. It was several days old and was brought to Jeremy and Shannon's neighbor (some random person thought they were rescuing it). The neighbor just so happened to bring it outside to use the restroom when we were heading to the beach! It was so tiny and Grace prefered to look at it rather than touch it. They said that we coul dtake it home but Evan said no. What a party pooper! Ha ha- Just kidding...that's the last thing that we need.

I guess that is all for now- we had a busy week last week with lots of good news so we'll hope that it will continue in to this week.