14 Months and Two Trips to Disney World

Yep! You read that right, Grace is 14 months old and we just completed her second trip to Disney World. We have kindly told her we are not going back until she is 14 years old. It was an excellent trip and Grace was a wonderful traveler. She really enjoyed seeing all the characters and wasn't even afraid of Beast from Beauty and the Beast. I thought he looked a little creepy but she didn't seem to mind. I will post pictures when we get them downloaded.

Well we have reached a few more milestones with Grace, she is finally crawling on all fours and not just doing the army crawl. She is still getting the hang of it so she goes pretty slow but she is starting to realize she can get places that way. As I said in my previous post I thought Grace was starting to sit up on her own and sure enough she is. She does it the sit up style so she is already working on her abs but she gets from laying down to sitting up and really thinks she is hot stuff!!! Today she pulled her self up to a kneeling position by pulling on my shirt so I guess we are in for some changes at our house.

Well I am extremely tired so I must go to bed.

New Year's Resolution

So one of my New Year's Resolutions was to get better at blogging. I barely ever write on here and am sure that people have stopped reading by now. So hopefully some will come back and see what is happening in the Vrieze household.

Last week at PT the therapist gave Grace an assessment for her Gross Motor Delay. As I had suspected Grace is at about the level of a 9 month old. So this weekend Grace decides that she is going to start doing some new things. I am almost 100% positive that she went from laying down to sitting up this weekend. Even though I never actually saw her do it I am pretty positive that twice when I left the room she was laying down and when I came back she was sitting up!!! Then Sunday morning Scott put her behind her walking toy and she took a stroll across the living room, mind you the living room is not all that big but she still walked and we didn't have to hold the walker so it didn't go to fast! I guess all Grace needed was to be told she was behind to get her butt in gear. Or else they were all flukes and she won't do them again for a while!

I also have to let you nkow that I am a little concerned about my child's pain threshold. We discoverd over the past month that most of her teeth have decided to all come in at the same time and unless myself or grandma hadn't stuck our fingers in her mouth we would have never known! Thats really got to hurt. But then the poor girl bumps her head and cries I just do'nt get it!

Well I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and that you are able to hold to any resolutions you made.

Whats that I see....

Its HAIR! Yep Grace has beautiful brown hair! How do I know you ask? Well that is because after just short of 7 months she finally is Helmet Free!!!!!!!!!

We already had a tough evening though as Grace has to learn that hitting her head does in fact hurt since she doesn't have the protective cover anymore. She'll learn...pretty quick I am sure.

Well we are off to Highland, IN tonight for Christmas with my grandparents. Will update more later.

1 Year

Yep, Can you believe it Grace is 1 year old! We had her party this past weekend and the poor girl was sick. She had spiked a high temp. Friday just after her 1 year pictures, and I told Scott that if she still had it in the morning we were canceling the party. She woke up with no fever so party was on. After she ate dinner she threw up and about an hour or so later she spiked another fever. Poor girl and bad mom, I should have canceled the party. She did enjoy the toys and stuff though. We saved her cake for another time so she can go at it.

We had her Dr. appt. yesterday her stats:

Weight: 20lbs 30th %
Length: 29 1/2" 50th % ( we don't agree with this, we think she is closer to 28 inches )
Head: 18 1/4" 90th %

We did get referred on to a neurologist just to rule out that there is anything neurological or anything that is causing her gross motor delays. We don't go see him until the end of Jan though by then she could be running, I highly doubt it but she could be.

I will upload updated pictures another time. Right now this mommy has to go to bed.

Just a Little Bit Longer

Above are some recent pictures we took of Grace at a pumpkin patch.

So we had an appointment today for Grace and her helmet. She was supposed to graduate (meaning be done with the helmet today). But no go. The numbers aren't what the Dr. wants them to be so we have to deal with it for another 6 weeks. I am bummed my goal was to have it off by her first birthday but that is not going to happen seeing as she turns 1 in 2 weeks.

Oh well the new date for Graduation from the helmet is tentatively Dec. 10th. So everyone think round thoughts!

Soooo Big!

Yep! You guessed it that is Grace's new thing. We ask her how big she is and she raises both hands in the air and smiles really big. It is the greatest thing. We can't help but have her do it repeatedly.

We also think Grace's top teeth are working their way through. Grace has been very irritable lately and we can't figure out what else it could be. The earlier bedtime is kind of nice, she has been going down at about 7:30/8:00 instead of 8:00/8:30.

Nothing else new to report.

A Little Late is Better Than Never

So Grace has finally discovered that if she rolls from her back to her tummy and back to her back again she can get around the room. Well at least a small square foot area. She has also learned to scoot on her butt.

Grace's physical therapist finally came to the conclusion on Friday that its not necessarily that Grace can't crawl its maybe more that she DOESN'T want to crawl. Well I could have told her that months ago. Grace is a very laid back and easy going girl. She is happy as a clam sitting in one spot or in one general area!

I will post updated pictures later this week, hopefully, when we get them downloaded from the camera.