After a whole weekend of being warned to be careful and not to do it, Grace finally managed to do it…to everyone's despair. It was a blood curdling scream that erupted from her mouth as the door blew closed and squished her finger. She had followed me into the office and had her left hand on the door frame close to the hinges. A gust of wind blew the door closed behind her and squished her thumb terribly. It looks pretty awful and she might end up losing the nail. Fortunately she settled fairly quickly afterwards and a princess plaster had a significant impact. We are praying it gets better soon, but I am pretty sure we are going to finish the princess plasters

Grace and I had an amazingly fun time swimming at the gym today. She was loving the float that Donné bought her (looks like a tiny boat, but with holes for her legs to go through) and having so much fun jumping and kicking, riding on my back, launching herself off the step towards me, launching herself of the edge and into the pool, having fun kicking her legs in her float, and most of all absolutely loving being thrown up into the air and splashing down into the water – shrieks of delight followed by, "Again!"

Grace has started singing the last few days. When I say singing I don't mean belting out show tunes, just a different kind of tone of voice and a bit of random or not so random droning. It is quite interesting that she suddenly has this desire to sing. We sing to her every night before bedtime – songs like Silent night, Jesus loves me and Jesus loves the little children. Currently she always wants my rendition of, "To market to market to buy a fat pig" which is just a rhyme and not a song. That started after we went to a market and I added the line, "To market to market to buy chocolate balls, home again, home again we ate them all."

Grace has recently gone through an expansion of the taste buds. For a long time she only ate plain and simple foods and refused to eat mixed foods like stews. She has always eaten quite well, it just seems like her ability to process the different tastes has improved and she is enjoying trying new foods. In general she has rejected broccoli, but it made my heart glad to see her eat some up tonight and ask for more.

Chilling with Mr Spicey

Kiddies Pilates

Grace and I spent the morning at Stodel’s Nursery looking at the various animals and playing on the jungle gym, but I think the highlight for her was when we went to the toilet and she found the kiddie size toilets – such delight!

Grace getting Spice high on catnip

Working on the keyboard just like daddy

Grace really likes grapes. We bought our first punnet for the season and she devoured about half of that in a day…we'll have to slow down on that a bit. After lunch we were all having some grapes. Grace had finished hers and was keen for more. After giving her a few as I munched along I ended up with my last three. Thinking that there was one for each of us I held them out to Grace and said, "Grace, which grape would you like?"

This evening while I was waiting for the veggie patties to cook, I was busy sewing Bunny Foo Foo's head closed after he fell off Grace's sponge.  While I was sewing up the bunny I started thinking about how easy it was for me to take out my sewing kit and do the 5 minute job and yet if a button fell off my pants (both pre and post Grace) I would probably just walk around with a safety pin for, well lets just say, a very long time.  

After a chilled-out morning we went for a visit to the Bradshaws in the afternoon. One benefit of visiting at Jack's house is that he has a trampoline which fits in perfectly with Grace's jumping phase. She jumped, she climbed the ladder, rode Jack's bike, swung on his swing, and had lots of fun. At the end of it all, what did Grace say?