She is Getting SO Big!!

It seems like all of the sudden I am losing my baby.  She is inching closer to her 2nd birthday and she has decided to start proving it.  In the last two weeks all of the sudden ...

She preferes the big kid swings ...

She takes lots of risks ...

She had her first popcicle all by herself ...

She has gone from just trying on my shoes to wearing my heels all over the house ...

And, biggest of all ... she has started sleeping in a big girl bed (by big girl bed, I mean a mattress on the floor while she gets used to it.)

I love this little kid!  She is so sweet and getting big way to fast.

Gracie and The Soccer Ball

Grace has officially discovered the outdoors!  She is her mama's girl and would prefer to be outside than inside at all times.  While exploring the backyard with her dad she discovered Cletus' soccer ball.  What you need to know is that Cletus likes to kick around this ball with his head and try to catch it in his mouth and it gets stuck in his teeth so it is really a gnarled and disgusting ball.  Grace decided she likes this ball.  She figured out how to kick and chase it ... but decided it couldn't be done without dragging daddy along as well as her baby.

I was fairly amused sitting on the porch watching all the action.