She's Learned to Snuggle in Her Old Age

The other day Rob reminded me that when Grace was born her skin was really sensitive and it seemed to almost hurt her to be touched. So there was no stroking or really touching our brand new sweet newborn. We just had to hold her really tightly and not touch her skin a whole lot. When she was a baby she didn't love to snuggle either, she wanted to be in the action and we had to swaddle her to get any resemblance to snuggling. I am loving that now, her old 21-month-old self loves to snuggle with her mama. I reveled in the 15 minutes that I spent tonight just holding her and snuggling her and singing to her because that's all she wanted before bed. Even though she can climb out of her crib (as of tonight...grrr), bedtime is fast becoming my very favorite time of day.

Getting ready for bedtime tonight.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! We are enjoying a wonderful weekend full of family and General Conference and the celebration of the sacrifice of our Lord. Grace also wanted to share a special Easter egg that she dyed with everyone (you might need to click on the photo if you can't see it clearly).

(So now, I think you all will forgive me for not doing too many posts recently...I just haven't quite been feeling like my energetic self!)

FISH!!!!

Grace loves fish. It's such a treat for her to look at the fish at the pediatrician's office, so imagine her excitement when a few weeks ago we went with Kira and Kylee to the Aquarium. Grace doesn't say fish, she just purses her lips and makes a fish face when she sees them. We had a blast looking at all of the cool fish. The whole time Grace was pointing and smiling and making her fishy face. When the time came to pet the sting rays the girls wouldn't put their hands in the water, but they were fascinated by seeing the rays swim around. We had so much fun!

How funny that the girls were dressed alike that day!

We couldn't ever get both girls looking at the same time.

Playing on the rocks in the play area that had little tanks of fish in it.

I Heart My Family

I switched out our Bunker Family picture the other day and Grace latched on to the old one and would not let go of it, so I let her look at it. Ten (or more!) minutes later I came back to find her lying on the couch just staring at the photo. It was really sweet. Grace hearts her family even though they're far away. I also love her facial expressions in these pictures. She really was that happy to be looking at the picture!

She especially wanted me to give a shout out to her Uncle Brian, whose birthday it is today. So
Happy Birthday Uncle Brian!!!
And Happy St. Patrick's Day to the rest of you!

The Perfect Nap

The other day (and most days actually) Grace was putting her babies to bed in the following fashion:

1. Wrap babies up tightly.
2. Rock babies and sing to them.
3. When they're almost asleep throw them into the crib since you can't reach to set them in nicely.
4. Turn on the heater and the humidifier.
5. Throw in all your books and toys so that the babies will have something to do during their nap.

Love This Cute Face!

Silly Stroller Girl

This is Grace's favorite place to hang out and snack recently.

She's getting better at an on demand smile - even if it is the nose-scrunch.

A Post About Rob

Rob is so great, and he has had a couple of neat experiences lately that I need to document.

First, since he works at the church, he has the opportunity to see General Authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Last week he had the chance to escort his managing director and Elder and Sister Bednar to a talk they were giving at the Church Offices. As they chatted for a moment Rob's managing director complimented him and Elder Bednar said that he must be so great because of his hair (or lack of). It's nice to have an apostolic blessing on his bald head!

Second, the picture above is from Sunday, before our Stake Conference started in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. If you look closely in the picture you will see a black circle around a distinguished speaker. That's right, it's Rob. He got to sit in the plush red velvet chairs the apostles used to sit in! He did an amazing job and looked so comfortable speaking from that pulpit...maybe he has a future in it? (hehehe. I love yooooou, Rob!)

Our First Cooking Adventure

The other day I decided that it was high time for the first cooking adventure with Grace. We made some delicious pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Grace had a blast stirring, but she kept on dropping her spoon into the batter and wanting mine - we dirtied all of our spoons that afternoon. We made quite the mess but had a lot of fun!

The only problem now is that she knows how to reach stuff on the counter by strategically placing the chair...oops!

Licking fingers. Her favorite part was helping me eat the chocolate chips before they made it into the batter.

A Conversation With Gracers

Here is a conversation that we have often with Grace.

Rob: Grace, what does a cat make?
Grace: Meow.
Rob: What does an elephant make?
Grace: Vrrrrrrrr (with her arm making a trunk)
Rob: What does a cow say?
Grace: Moo
Rob: What does a snake say?
Grace: Sshhh (it's a funny little hiss)
Rob: What does a lamb say?
Grace: Baaaa
Rob: What does Grace say?
Grace: Shoes!

Are we in trouble or what?!

This is what Grace does every day after she's tried on all of my heels.