Am I really ready for this??

I meet with two friends every other Tuesday for book club and we each have a two year old girl. They spend much time dancing about together so I decided I should get over my fears and teach them an unofficial ballet class. :) One of the other moms is a music teacher so she does 15-20 mins of music and then I do 15-20 mins of ballet before book club begins. :) Molly remembered her camera yesterday so we forever have the first ballet class documented. :)
Not sure I'm really ready to start down this road with my two year old, but here we go! :)

Starting with stretches...

Grand jetes over the teddy bear:

Waiting her turn...

Jumps :)

Princesses dancing with scarves:
  
Somebody else wants to be a part too!! :)

8 Months!

I can't believe Grace will 8 months tomorrow! She just gets more and more fun every day. And more and more mobile. And more and more vocal. And has more and more of an opinion about things. :) She started crawling about a month ago and has completely taken off. It's funny to get back into the mindset of cords, baby gates, itty bitty things on the floor etc. About a week ago she also started pulling up on everything. If she can stand, that's what she wants to be doing. She made her first transfer last night - holding on to Nathan's leg to holding on to a chair last night too. And now she loves to walk if you hold her hands. I just can't believe how quickly this mobility is accelerating! She's a bit quieter I think than Evie was and she's a big observer, however, she still pretty smiley and loves to laugh, especially at her sister.
Favorite Food: While she'll eat most things, Puffs are by far the fav. ;)
Favorite Activity: Snuggling - our favorite too! And pulling up on whatever she can
Funniest thing to her: Evie
Scariest thing: Pulling a mirror down on top of her and having it shatter all around her. Amazingly, she only got a tiny bruise, no cuts.
Favorite noise: "aaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaa" Sometimes we'll get a "baba" or "mama", but not too much yet.
Favorite place: Wherever everyone else is. She loves to be in the middle of things.
Favorite toy: Sophie the Giraffe. Thanks, Aunt Katie!!
Best friends: Catherine and Daphne - two little girls at church born a few weeks before and a few weeks after her.
Teeth: Just two on the bottom
Ok, enough talking about Gracie Grace, here are some pictures taken within the last month. :)
Sister wrestling time!

Fashion show in her new dress from Great-Grammy!

Dress-up in Miss Annette's hat!

And in case there was any doubt about her eyes.... (and perpetually runny nose - sigh)

We love our sweet, snuggly girl!

From the iphone...

These pictures aren't the highest quality, but they say the best camera is the one you have with you, and Nathan's phone is always with us when we're hanging out as a family. Here are some pictures from his phone from the past few months. :)
Taking a break from mowing....note that our backyard is all rock. ;)
Saturday morning fun! Going to the store in jammies to get ingredients to make waffles with Daddy
Dress up with neighbor friends:

OR, dress up in daddy's Clemson hat, dress shoes, and mommy's necklace. ;)
Building train tracks with their new train set has been a hit since Christmas. Evelyn is quite good at her train noises, shouting "All aboard!" and "Derailed! Derailed!" when her train tips over or the Gracie strikes. :) Now that Gracie is such a crawler, we have more incidents of derailing and earthquakes messing up the tracks. A favorite game is to put Gracie in the middle of the track and then see if you can sneak your train by her without her getting it - lol.
Music time with Daddy - my bass is the latest fav among both girls. :)
Feeding the horses in CW. Someone had to wear their sunglasses just like mommy was... :)
Gracie and her fanclub at a church dinner. :)
Chillin'....

Sister love :)

Snack time with their bffs, Rachel and Annie ("Annie" is Evie's latest favorite name to say :))
Swinging like mommy!

Visiting Chippoaks Plantation with our friends, Nathan and Liz!

We're loving our little girls and watching them grow! Just this afternoon I went in to get Gracie up from her nap and she was standing in the corner of her crib waiting for me!!