17 Weeks Old

Can you  believe this little girl is 17 weeks old today and will be 4 months old later this week?!  Where has the time gone?!

This was yet another crazy busy week, but full of all kinds of goodness :)  Thursday evening we had our good friends Alyssa and Kyle over while they were in town, along with their 3 beautiful children.  It was so wonderful to get to catch up with them and to meet Gavin for the 1st time.  He is absolutely precious, which is no surprise because both Jeremy and Jemma are also adorable children!  They all also got to meet Grace for the first time.  We had a fun evening of pig riding, chicken holding, horse feeding, dinner, and just plain hanging out.  To put it simply, it was a wonderful evening!

Mommies with their babies
Alyssa, Gavin, Grace, and I

Some snap shots of all the children from their visit

Then Friday, I had to go get my license renewed while Garrett got to take Grace to the doctor... yep, to the doctor's again.  This was just a follow-up because she's been taking antibiotics for about a week and they wanted to see how she was progressing.  We are happy to say that she is doing much better.  I just cannot wait until all this medication is gone because I really don't like giving it to her.  I also hope this bacteria stuff does not come back once it is all out of her system.  Finally, after Garrett and I both made it home it was time to head off to Climax to see Aunt Sherry and Uncle Sonny for a long weekend.  I absolutely love all of our visits with them!!

We arrived Friday early evening and stayed until early Sunday morning.  Of course while there, there were several games of Sequence (no visit is complete without this, lol), we got to go visit my Uncle Bill who my sister, mom, and I have not seen since '96 (It was so great to see him!  Garrett and Grace also got to meet him for the first time.), and we just enjoyed each others company over several delicious meals and front/back porch sittin'. :)  On a side note, Grace absolutely loves Uncle Sonny.  It is too funny how she reacts with him... she is constantly watching him and smiles every time he comes into a room.  He could hold her all day and I'm sure she'd be happy as a clam.  He even gave her one of his hand-crafted piggy banks that he made.  When I was a child he made me a bunny bank and made Amanda a cat bank when she was young; now Grace has her very own whale bank that Uncle Sonny made; what an awesome gift?! :)  Oh and did I mention this was Grace's first time out of state?!  She did so well on the long car ride!!  We can't wait to get back up there and are already planning to hopefully make it up for Swine Time this fall (unfortunately, minus Cambrie this time).  Thank you Uncle Sonny and Aunt Sherry for the wonderful stay and for all the wonderful "toys" that you gave to Garrett.  He is a happy boy with all those new (to him) wood-working and miscellaneous tools.

An intense game of Sequence, lol
Love the intensity on Aunt Sherry and Amanda's face

So great getting to see Uncle Bill after 16 years!
L to R: Uncle Sonny, Aunt Sherry, Uncle Bill, Grace and I,
Amanda-Kay, Mama, and Garrett

Grace loves her Uncle Sonny and her new Whale bank

Other things this week:

1. Grace is still teething which means she is a drooling machine and is fighting sleep more than ever
2. She used her big girl duck bath-tub for the first time while at Aunt Sherry and Uncle Sonny's
3. She is grabbing everything in sight; her depth perception is definitely getting better
4. She has a new "squeal" that she loves to do... went from sounding like T-Rex to sounding like a dolphin, lol (see video below)
5. She is even closer to rolling... I believe she will role to her back from her stomach before the vice versa, just because she loves so much to lay on her back and kick (see video below)