Friday, August 21, 2009

We have been to these places for barely a moment

Grace continues to change so quickly. She is really steady on her feet and normally coasts round the furniture holding on with just one hand. She still gets down on to the floor and crawls when she meets an open space so the next step is for her to walk hands free. I think she will probably just get up and do it one day.

The girls get on so well. Olivia loves to give Gracie bear hugs and do stuff like wrap her up in a blanket and roll her around the floor and Gracie just laughs like a drain and thinks that 99.9% of everything Olivia does is hilarious. My job now is to try and get Olivia to recognise the other 0.01% and stop putting Grace in to a headlock! Olivia really loves her little sister and very earnestly told me the other day 'Mummy, Gracie is my favourite toy.' I pointed out that Grace is a baby and not a toy and she thought a bit more and then announced 'Gracie is my best friend and Daddy is your best friend'. She is so super cute!

Olivia is very clever and also very opinionated. She certainly tells you what she does and doesn't want to do. Anyone would think she was two and a half or something! This evening she screamed hysterically for about 25 minutes due to a combination of not having a daytime nap and being by Mummy told to stop swinging on Grandma's cupboard doors. She was a small slice of hell for a good while.

Thing is that being a parent can be hard but the good stuff outweighs the bad. When Olivia smiles naturally, not the silly screwed-up eyes smile she does when someone puts a camera on her, but the natural smile when she genuinely thinks something is funny, she melts my heart.

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