Monthly Archives: April 2012

Dora and the doggie

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My parents newest dog Coco is quite nervy around new people and has been especially skitsy around Grace. If she enters the room he tends to exit, find a hiding spot or stick close to my dad.

Every morning when Grace walks into my parents’ room Coco barks at her, which doesn’t seem to bother Grace at all. This morning he barked at her and she walked up to him and gave him a pat. That seemed to be a breakthrough…

Grace watching some Dora with Coco

Angry Birds

Gogo didn't just teach Grace to do her makeup, she has also been teaching her how to play Angry Birds. Grace loves shooting the birds off – mostly backwards and directly into the ground – while laughing away. Although she does reckon that it is, "Birdies, angry pigs."

Gogo has been teaching Grace, but Grace has also taught her some new birdie tricks. I guess that is what happens when you have a techno-savvy 2 year old….or maybe it just comes from tapping the screen wildly 🙂

Easter egg

Easter egg….those were probably the two words that we heard the most today. If Grace was not occupied with something else, then she was asking for Easter eggs. She did have lots of fun looking for eggs around the house and in the garden (the egg hunt was a three part outing spread over the day), and definitely enjoyed eating her speckled eggs which she has been waiting for all week.

We had to bring the same blue bucket that she collected her eggs in last year. It is now officially the Easter egg hunt bucket.

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Grace has been cruising off to sit with Gogo in the mornings and is enjoying participating in the morning ritual. That means she has had some make-up lessons from Gogo.

Let's get some eye shadow…

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…and onto the eyes.

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And to finish off, some lipstick.

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Need a hug

I went into Grace's room last night while she was sleeping to close a window and check on her. She stirred a bit, but she often does so I wasn't worried about it. As I was leaving the room she says, "Need a hug." So I went to her, gave her a quick cuddle and then was off. It really melted my heart.

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Breakfast with Gogo and Gramps

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The Girls

Having coffee at In Food in Jeffrey's Bay

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Factoid

Grace was naughty today. Very naughty. In fact a long list could be written. But let's not do that, instead, an interesting factoid that we realised today.

We recently measured Grace's height and it is about 94cm. When she was born she was 47cm…..which means that she has doubled in length since she was born, in 2 years and 9 months. We measured her height at 2 years as 88cm, which supposedly means she will be 176cm tall when fully grown. Although her first doubling was quick, her next (roughly) is going to take 10-15 years.

Back seat driver

Grace has become quite the back seat driver, delivering plenty of commentary as we go along. Most of it relates to red lights and stopping and goes something like this, "No stopping! Go, go, go," after which I explain to her (again) that we can't go while the traffic light is red. Then all is quite until the traffic light goes green when it is either, "Go, go, go!" or "Go Daddy go."

Today on the way to Jeffrey's Bay she had Donné in hysterics with, "No slowing down, go, go!" And then later, "Not right way to Jeffrey's Bay."

Hiding in Grandpa's boat

Rhino search

We took Grace for a ride through Kragga Kamma game park today to see the animals and look for the rhinos. She didn't make it all the way through (passed out due to a late night last night and a super early wake up this morning), and we saw the rhinos right at the end…while she was sleeping. Oh well, next time.

While you were sleeping….

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…the giraffes were pulling funny faces at you.

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A hole in my bucket

Grace enjoyed Gogo singing, “There’s a hole in my bucket,” to her while she bathed. She thought it was a very funny song (which she expressed over and over again). Just before she went to bed she said to me, “Gogo sing a bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery, bery silly song.” I’m not sure exactly how many times it was that she said, “bery,” but it was lots.