Sunday, November 30, 2008

It's Sunday morning, and Grace and I are sitting here together eating waffles. As usual, it's taking Grace a long time to finish her breakfast. Right now she's busy talking about the Mickey Mouse characters on her plate and counting (she's pretty proud that she's learned to count to 100). She's also currently wearing a cheerleader outfit over her jammies, something that's a pretty regular occurence on weekends around here.

We had an abbreviated Thanksgiving weekend, because Grace got sick on Thursday. On Friday we found out she had Strep Throat, so we came home early from our travels. The good news is she's doing a lot better today, and we won't be surprised if she's able to go to school tomorrow.

November 23, 2008

We've finally compiled our list of those who participated in Race 4 Grace 2008, either by riding during RAGBRAI or by contributing money to the team and FSMA. We hope to put this list on the website soon (www.race4grace.org). Our goal is to double the list in 2009, and we'd love to get as many as possible to ride in RAGBRAI 2009.

Grace is doing well. She continues to love preschool; she's learning to write letters and numbers, she can do some sign language, and she can sing a ton of songs.

Also, her wish list for Santa is already multiple pages.

November 8, 2008

Grace was all over the place this past week, because the Sioux City schools were having conferences. She got to go to Kathy's for a day (her previous daycare provider), and she also got to spend some quality time with her Grandma Colleen. She's pretty flexible, but she's also gotten to the point where she misses school if she has too long of a break from it. She must've learned about the election at preschool, because this past week she's been singing the name Barack Obama at home--pretty funny. She told me today that she was frustrated because I wasn't listening to her because I was watching basketball (game film). Funny to hear her say the word frustrated.

I just learned this past week about the guestbook on the Race 4 Grace website--thanks to those who've signed in and posted a message. Pretty cool. We always encourage you to go to www.race4grace.org for current pictures (Halloween pics were just added) and for next year's RAGBRAI info. Locations for next year's event will be released sometime in January or February. We're already looking forward to it!

November 2, 2008

Grace and her mommy had a good Halloween this year, while daddy was on the road with his basketball team. Grace was an angel this year, and she was beautiful in her costume. She had initially resisted any attempt to make her wear anything other than a queen costume, but her mom did a good sell job over the past week. They had a great night for trick-or-treating and made quite a few rounds. We'll get pictures on the website as soon as we can figure out how.

I've decided over the past few weeks that Grace is the most popular girl in her class at preschool. Every morning when we get there all the kids say hi to her and ask her to play with them. I think they've really accepted her and have taken to helping her out with certain needs, such as getting toys and things for her when she's not in her Dani. That makes us feel really good, and we hope that she'll continue to do well socially as she gets older.