I just wanted to share two short stories from today:

I went on my own to Pick n Pay today and as usual I got asked “where’s Gracie?” – because as I have mentioned before, cashiers that work at Willowbridge tend to know us. She started chatting about Grace, how she loves to ride the train (one of those coin operated trains – except we never put money in it), and then she said something that really stood out, she said that she sees lots of children and she thinks that Grace is such a well behaved child in comparison.  I took it as a great compliment because before I became a parent I was really put off by kids that had no respect for other people / things / space and we definitely are trying to teach Grace, among other things, respect for people and things.  Having said that we definitely don’t take all the credit because I think she just has that type of personality.  As I said to the cashier I certainly hope it lasts since we are about to hit the two’s and then (so I’m told) the 3’s and the 4’s then well there are the teenage years 🙂

So while Grace was supposed to be sleeping while I was shopping she chose to make use of her nap time to roll around, unzip herself from her sleep sack and who knows what else, resulting in no nap.  After lunch I needed to start preparing for supper so she watched a DVD.  About 10 minutes into the DVD I saw her yawn and when I looked back two minutes later she was out, snoring on the couch.  I have often seen other people post photos of their children falling asleep on the landing, in the bathroom on the floor etc but in Graces nearly 2 years she has only ever fallen asleep in that way twice. Once when she was very sick and today.

It was all too much