Well it's been a very eventful week around the Ford household. Nan and Pop Ford arrived last Saturday for a week-long visit. Danny took them to the airport on Saturday morning, and they headed back to Fogo Island, Newfoundland. For those of you who don't know where that is... well, that's okay, I didn't know either until I met Danny... but go ahead and Google it sometime! And if you ever get the chance to visit, it's definitely worth it!
Nan and Pop arrived just in time on Saturday for the second installment of our 3D ultrasound so they started off their day seeing both granddaughters. The ultrasound went well, although we discovered that Baby #2 is breech... and quite comfortable it seems. She does some flailing back and forth, but doesn't seem to have much of an inclination to head towards the light! I've also been warned that this baby is not going to be little either (*sigh*) and should rival Gracie's nearly 9 lbs. Which means if the little girl doesn't flip soon, it may be very difficult to encourage her to when time is running out. So we'll see where this takes us! :)
On Sunday Pop and Danny put together Gracie's swingset, an Easter present from Grampy and Nanny Fillmore. She loves it! She will sit, literally, for an hour in the swing... just swinging. She gets very upset when you try to take her out before she's ready, and will just swing, and swing, and swing. She is already an avid outdoorsman, and starts her morning by opening her blind and yelling "hiiiiiii" to her swingset, and ends it by closing her blind and yelling "byyyyyyyye!"
We went to the zoo on Monday, and Gracie finally got to hear the monkeys in action. She wasn't impressed. She loved the little monkeys who danced and played and knocked each other around the cage, but the big monkeys who scream at the top of their lungs "eeeeeeeeee-ooooooooo" were not her favourites. They were just too noisy for her. She still loves the goats, and the llamas are a big hit, since she actually gets to touch them. The ducks and birds seem to be her favourite for now though. She loooooves birds! She also loved when an airplane flew above us, and would wave and yell "hi" to whoever was inside it.
We kept busy all week doing all sorts of fun things with Nan and Pop, and Gracie was quite sad to see them go on Saturday. She walked around most of Saturday yelling "Nana? Poppa?" and occasionally if she thinks she hears something in the basement, she'll yell for them again.
Yesterday was business as usual, and although it was Mothers' Day, we have decided to postpone our celebration to next Sunday. Yesterday was the last day for my Sunday School program, so Gracie and I were out the door bright and early (no, no breakfast in bed for me) and Danny had to work. When we got finished at church, Gracie went to bed, and Danny, who was home by now, had assignments to be worked on that were due. So I spent the afternoon cleaning and tidying up the house and doing laundry. I took a frozen pizza out for supper (Margarhita pizza from Costco, um, yummmmmy!) and Danny gave me a lovely card, a new gym bag, and a new Precious Moments figurine. But he felt bad that I hadn't had the traditional Mothers' Day events (breakfast in bed, a no-clean day, and dinner out), so we decided to celebrate next weekend, when our lives should be (hahaha) a little less hectic. I did use the Mothers' Day excuse to make him watch a chick flick with me, and we went to bed at 8:30 and watched The Vow.
That was Mothers' Day in a nutshell. The part I left out would be what happened between the time Gracie woke up from her afternoon nap and supper. I was on the phone with my cousin and was just about to let her go to get supper out of the oven, when I made the comment to her "hmmm, Gracie is really quiet, that's never a good thing. I bet she's into something she shouldn't be." So we said our goodbyes, and I asked Danny what Gracie was up to. He called her name a couple of times, but no answer. We were just about to chase her down when she came out of our bedroom... seemingly in one piece, and nothing too dangerous-looking having happened. She did have my container of powder that I got a few years ago from Fantasia (this stuff is fantastic, by the way), and before Danny could jump off the couch, she dropped it on the floor, upside down. She immediately went "uh-oh" and started to pick it up. It was EVERYWHERE!! She was quite upset, but we don't cry over spilled powder, so she decided to help dad clean it up instead. When I looked over, she was licking it off the floor - it's raspberry flavoured, did I mention that?? Dad got the biggest pile cleaned up and Gracie continued to lick her hands and slide them through what was left of the powder so she could eat some more. While Danny was wiping up the last of it, Gracie was sucking powder off her toes. So I grabbed a camera. Of course. I mean, the floor was mostly clean, so why not let her enjoy it! Here she is, my little raspberry-flavoured cocaine addict! :)
Nan and Pop arrived just in time on Saturday for the second installment of our 3D ultrasound so they started off their day seeing both granddaughters. The ultrasound went well, although we discovered that Baby #2 is breech... and quite comfortable it seems. She does some flailing back and forth, but doesn't seem to have much of an inclination to head towards the light! I've also been warned that this baby is not going to be little either (*sigh*) and should rival Gracie's nearly 9 lbs. Which means if the little girl doesn't flip soon, it may be very difficult to encourage her to when time is running out. So we'll see where this takes us! :)
On Sunday Pop and Danny put together Gracie's swingset, an Easter present from Grampy and Nanny Fillmore. She loves it! She will sit, literally, for an hour in the swing... just swinging. She gets very upset when you try to take her out before she's ready, and will just swing, and swing, and swing. She is already an avid outdoorsman, and starts her morning by opening her blind and yelling "hiiiiiii" to her swingset, and ends it by closing her blind and yelling "byyyyyyyye!"
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| Gracie in her swing |
We went to the zoo on Monday, and Gracie finally got to hear the monkeys in action. She wasn't impressed. She loved the little monkeys who danced and played and knocked each other around the cage, but the big monkeys who scream at the top of their lungs "eeeeeeeeee-ooooooooo" were not her favourites. They were just too noisy for her. She still loves the goats, and the llamas are a big hit, since she actually gets to touch them. The ducks and birds seem to be her favourite for now though. She loooooves birds! She also loved when an airplane flew above us, and would wave and yell "hi" to whoever was inside it.
We kept busy all week doing all sorts of fun things with Nan and Pop, and Gracie was quite sad to see them go on Saturday. She walked around most of Saturday yelling "Nana? Poppa?" and occasionally if she thinks she hears something in the basement, she'll yell for them again.
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| Nan Ford and Gracie |
Yesterday was business as usual, and although it was Mothers' Day, we have decided to postpone our celebration to next Sunday. Yesterday was the last day for my Sunday School program, so Gracie and I were out the door bright and early (no, no breakfast in bed for me) and Danny had to work. When we got finished at church, Gracie went to bed, and Danny, who was home by now, had assignments to be worked on that were due. So I spent the afternoon cleaning and tidying up the house and doing laundry. I took a frozen pizza out for supper (Margarhita pizza from Costco, um, yummmmmy!) and Danny gave me a lovely card, a new gym bag, and a new Precious Moments figurine. But he felt bad that I hadn't had the traditional Mothers' Day events (breakfast in bed, a no-clean day, and dinner out), so we decided to celebrate next weekend, when our lives should be (hahaha) a little less hectic. I did use the Mothers' Day excuse to make him watch a chick flick with me, and we went to bed at 8:30 and watched The Vow.
That was Mothers' Day in a nutshell. The part I left out would be what happened between the time Gracie woke up from her afternoon nap and supper. I was on the phone with my cousin and was just about to let her go to get supper out of the oven, when I made the comment to her "hmmm, Gracie is really quiet, that's never a good thing. I bet she's into something she shouldn't be." So we said our goodbyes, and I asked Danny what Gracie was up to. He called her name a couple of times, but no answer. We were just about to chase her down when she came out of our bedroom... seemingly in one piece, and nothing too dangerous-looking having happened. She did have my container of powder that I got a few years ago from Fantasia (this stuff is fantastic, by the way), and before Danny could jump off the couch, she dropped it on the floor, upside down. She immediately went "uh-oh" and started to pick it up. It was EVERYWHERE!! She was quite upset, but we don't cry over spilled powder, so she decided to help dad clean it up instead. When I looked over, she was licking it off the floor - it's raspberry flavoured, did I mention that?? Dad got the biggest pile cleaned up and Gracie continued to lick her hands and slide them through what was left of the powder so she could eat some more. While Danny was wiping up the last of it, Gracie was sucking powder off her toes. So I grabbed a camera. Of course. I mean, the floor was mostly clean, so why not let her enjoy it! Here she is, my little raspberry-flavoured cocaine addict! :)
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