December 24, 2008

Merry Christmas to everybody! It's Christmas Eve day, and we're at home. We spent last weekend at my parents still unsold house in Clear Lake for our family Christmas. Grace had a great time playing with her cousins Logan, Emmalin, and JJ. She talks about her cousins ALL THE TIME, and she made the most of the couple days she got to spend with them. Tonight we're heading to Marcus to spend Christmas Eve with my Grandpa and Grandma Bird, and tomorrow we'll have Christmas dinner with my Grandpa and Grandma Nelson and other Nelson relatives. In betwee, of course, we'll make plenty of time for Santa's arrival at our house. Grace has recently veered off her typical Barbie and Polly Pocket course and become engrossed in playing with babies. Thus, we anticipate that Santa will arrive with numerous baby-related gifts. Then, later tomorrow we'll head for Carroll to spend a couple days with Michelle's family. All in all it will have been a great Christmas week.

December 7, 2008

We took Grace to see Santa Claus today, and that went really well. She wasn't as shy as we thought she'd be, and she managed to tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas. She told him she wants a purple dress and a doll house. What was most funny was that afterward she told us she wanted to tell Santa that she wants the "Baby Alive" doll that goes "poop and pee," but she didn't want to say the words "poop and pee" to Santa. It was a pretty funny moment.

Also, we got word late last week that her power wheelchair is almost ready. We started the process of getting one back in early August, and we knew going in it would be a long process. It'll be nice to have the chair, which we'll probably have her use to get around the house. She'll continue to use her Standing Dani at school, because that's worked really well and she uses it a lot more at school than she'll use her wheelchair at home.