The Sunday Paper

Grace thinks it's great fun to read the Sunday paper with daddy. Why the Sunday paper? All those ad inserts. She goes to town on those things flinging them around, tearing them up. She is positively giddy with happiness to destroy and eat paper.

I have to admit its the only part of the paper I read too. You gotta know what's on sale at Target!

Princess Party

Allison Jane turned 5 on the 25th. I can't believe she is 5 already. 5 going on 16. OMG this kid cracks me up. She has always been crazy and I love it. She has this laugh that is just contagious and she is so super smart its scary. I feel so lucky that Adam and I have such a special relationship with her.

Grace says, "Gimme some of those presents..."

Evan and Grace. They are both sitting up and enjoyed poking each other and stealing away toys.

Ally and Grace have matching dresses from Hanna Anderson (cutest little girl clothes ever). They also have matching UGGS. Ally insisted that they wear matching outfits for her "princess party".

Natalie got in on the action too. Getting the three of them to sit still was quite the feat. "One of these is not like the other". Where did the kid with dark hair and eyes come from?- LOL

Ally loves Grace and Grace is equally enthraled. Is this picture not the most precious thing ever?

San Fran

I went to San Francisco last week and that is why I have been so behind on the blogging. We are launching a new drug called Bystolic so we went to California for a "launch meeting". It was about 2500 sales reps plus managers and was a real production. Pretty exciting to be a part of! I think its going to be a really good drug- and hopefully make me lots of money!! John Mayer came for a personal concert and he was awesome. Other than that we didn't have much time for fun. We went out to dinner at Fisherman's Wharf but it was dark and rainy so there wasn't much to see. This was my 4th time back so I wasn't too disappointed.

This was also my first overnight away from Grace. I cried the morning I left for the airport, it was so hard. But she was happy as could be with Nana and Papa and Daddy. I missed her terribly but I was so busy that I survived.

Future Spartan

Grace went to her first gymnastics meet on January 11th. 5 1/2 months old and she was watching the girls run down the runway- we were amazed she was so entertained. God help me if she is a gymnast.

After the meet Grace tried out some moves of her own. Here she is on vault. Papa thought it was real funny to joke that she looks a lot like her mommy did on the vault.

Chalking up before her bar routine.

This is a very difficult mount.

Auntie Mere spotting.

Beam, her favorite event of course. Hopefully she won't break mommy's school record.

And her final event of the night- floor. She really finished with a bang.
I say she deserves a perfect 10.0!!

Is that an earthquake...?

...or just Grace slamming her legs down in her crib. My beautiful baby girl doesn't wake up and cry anymore (which is nice) but talks to herself and does some feet stomps (not so nice at 3 am). See our "recreation of actual events" video below.

p.s. How about that hairdoo :)

My New Nephew

Luke had a photography session with Nicole last week (She is the photographer here in Jackson that took Grace's newborn pics). He will be three weeks on Thursday and he is just the cutest little guy. Here are a few sneak peeks on Nicole's Blog. I love the last one of Ally too. Nicki said she just loved posing for the camera, our little diva in training. Grace has a lot to learn :)

Datenight

Adam and I went to see Juno today. It was so cute and very funny. The boyfriend is the same kid that is in Superbad, he just cracks me up. I can't imagine carrying a baby for 9 months and then giving it up. That would be one of the hardest things in the world to do. Anywho, I highly recommend~ here is web page.