Monday, January 24, 2011

A few more recent pictures:

Lately, Grace has been getting those toes in her mouth!

She LOVES playing with Daddy!


She really really wants to crawl...but just isn't quite there yet. She can spin in circles on her tummy, though, and sort of scoot to reach things.


She loves it when Daddy gets home from work!


Playing with a few Christmas toys:


She cut one of her top teeth this week, so anything she can get her hands on goes in the mouth to suck and chew on.

Nathan thought it would be funny to build her first fort...not quite sure she understood. :)

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Grace's first Christmas

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Here are some photos and updates of our first Christmas as a family of three:
I had to include this cheesy face she makes, it's just too cute!

We started a tradition a few years ago of getting Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Grace is getting to a point where she demands that we share our food with her when we're eating at the table, so even though I brought a thing of baby sweet potatoes to feed her, she mostly just wanted to eat the rice.

In front of our tree on Christmas Eve.

We had all of Emily's family over for a Christmas Eve dinner and gift exchange. The nieces and nephews put on a little Christmas nativity, we originally were going to have Grace play the part of baby Jesus, but figured she wouldn't lay down in the "manger" and is way too big for any of her cousins to hold. So, she was an angel with her cousin Sarah:

Mostly, Grace was interested in playing with the plastic animal figurines that her cousins had brought.

Opening presents from Grandma and Grandpa:


Christmas Morning!





She was way too spoiled by her Grandparents! Really, how many toys does a baby need? :) Mostly, she just wanted to eat the wrapping paper and chew on the bows.

We love this sweet girl so much and are so grateful for our wonderful first Christmas together.