Isn't this the cutest picture? If Evan were in it, it would be perfect... there's a pretty good one of all three of us down below...but look at Grace- this is so cute! I couldn't help but put it at the top. What a happy little girl!About a month ago, Grace got her first fear. She is absolutely terrified of shadows. I don't know how fears come about in young children but my goodness, she is scared to pieces. We've tried touching them on the walls around the house, we've tried jumping on the shadows on the floor and we've tried making shadow puppets with our hands on the walls but nothing seems to ease her fear that shadows are all around and are safe. I have 4 books on reserve at the library that I'm hoping to pick up early this week on shadows so hopefully she'll enjoy reading those.
We've been trying our best to have frequent get-togethers with our friends for dinner during the week. Grace and I met Megan and Owen last week for dinner. Megan's husband had plans and Evan has been working on the house so it worked out perfectly. We also had our friends Erik, Daniele and Dylan and Jen, Jeremy 
and Kate over to our house for dinner. After dinner they all climbed in the chair and started reading (all by themselves). Just before this picture was taken, Grace was reading Dylan and Kate the book Five Little Monkeys. Grace and her friends are too precious for words!
Last night we went to Rupp Arena (downtown Lexington) to see 
Disney on Ice with Owen, Dylan, 
Kate and their parents. Wow- was that awesome! Unfortunately Grace doesn't know any of the Disney characters but it didn't stop her from loving it! And we had great seats- what a production! Evan and I both decided that we need to buy her the disney soundtrack with songs from all of the different movies. 
I have lots of pics from Disney on ice so I'll keep adding them while I talk about several other new things going on with Grace. Here's the other good pic of the three of us- awww...very cute!
Grace has started saying some really funny things. When I ask her if she's ready to do something (i.e. take a nap) she replies "not quite." Ha ha- so I have to tell her ok...one more minute. She also says "hmmm, that's wierd" and "that's amazing" often. The most funny of all of them is when Evan is upstairs working and she wants to talk to him...she goes over to the stairs and shouts up "Hey Ev" to get his attention. What a hoot-
Another big event that happened recently is that we put Grace back in pull-ups during the day. I potty trained her shortly after her 2nd birthday and for awhile she was doing really well. Several months ago she starting having "accidents" again and after trying every tip in the book (positive
reinforcement, negative reinforcement, sticker charts, candy, etc.)to get her back on track, we decided to see the pediatrician. The pediatrician told us that when you train kids so young (I didn't think 2 was too young considering I was trained at 18 months...but I guess times have changed), it's very common for them to lose interest later on. After the excitement wears off, it's no longer so much fun and such a priority. She also said that after kids master something like potty training, when they move on to master their next big skill, potty training is put on the side burner. It's a bummer to be back in pull-ups but a major relief to not have to do laundry every day and watch her for clues that she has to go potty day in and day out.
This last pic was taken after Disney on Ice (it was late) and poor Owen was so sleepy he didn't want to be in the pic so we just have the three. All of the little ones were so good throughout the entire performance- we are so lucky to have such great kiddos.Hope you enjoyed this blog entry...until next time- Love us~
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