Lots of "Big Boy" things happening

Caiden finally graduated to a normal bed last week. It was bittersweet for us. I could've kept him in there for a few more years, but truthfully he was just getting a wee bit big. I'd hear his legs knocking on the sides of the crib when he would try to roll over while he was sleeping and I feared that it would start waking him up. As you can imagine he was really excited at first. Then as we were putting him to bed that night reading him a book in his bed he said he wanted his crib back. Of course!

Every night (except for three nights) he's come into our room around 2am and wakes us up. We then walk him back to his room, lay him down and tell him he has to sleep in his bed. Feels like a newborn again. Then about half the time he's back in our room again at 5am and we walk him back in his room and tell him it's not time to get up. The past few nights he's slept all the way through until 7:30am or so -I hope we're on a roll!

He also took swim lessons for two weeks straight last month and we now have a pretty darn good swimmer! It was so nice just banging it out in two weeks and not going every single week for a year. He jumps in and swims to the steps or side. He swims for about 7 seconds underwater before coming up for air and now he wants us to push him to the bottom of the pool so he can touch with his hands and belly. He'll be picking up those diving sticks in no time!

Caiden's first day of Pre-Kindergarten

It was pretty uneventful -except for the rushing to get him dressed, breakfast and out the door on time by 8:15am. He's going Tuesday/Thursday at Solana Beach Presbyterian Preschool again this year and it starts at 8:30 and goes until noon. His teachers are Miss Michelle and Miss Theresa. They seem like wonderful ladies and I think he'll have a great year!

There were no tears and he ran in and started playing. Waved and said, "goodbye!" with a big smile on his face.

Grace: 2-years

Our Gracie Girl is 2 YEARS OLD! She has a very spunky attitude. I feel like she has way more opinions, decisions to make and attitude than Caiden did or ever does. She loves me one second and then the next she loves Marc...and it's usually all or nothing. She also loves to snuggle. She will just crawl up on your lap and sit there for no reason. She can be the sweetest girl one moment and then the next -WATCH OUT!

She loves to pick out her clothes and put on her shoes. And my shoes, too. She will seriously try to walk around in 3 inch heals and it's hilarious...she's actually becoming quite good at it. And whenever I wear earrings or a necklace she is obsessed with them. She runs to my room and points at the necklace I let her wear and insists on putting it on. She will also take my earrings and rest them in her ears like she is wearing them. I have a feeling once she understands she will want to get her ears pierced.

Her bottom second year molars are about half way in on each side. I noticed her gnawing on a veggie stick a couple days ago, almost like she was massaging the area and I looked in and they were half way in already.

She is so sassy. Seriously she will say, "NO" in such a sassy way that you can't even argue with it. And then she will scream bloody murder if you do it anyway. It's quite different than Caiden (he pretty much does what we say and doesn't give us too much grief). We really need to get this under control asap! Ideas???  I have a feeling we are in for a real treat in her teenage years.

She sings, 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' almost all day and was starting to learn the "Happy Birthday" song for a minute there because we were all singing it so often. Every day I notice an improvement in her vocabulary and her speaking skills and she's becoming less and less whiny every day because she can communicate better!

Her favorite toys are the doll house she got for her birthday, her multiple tea sets and picnic baskets. She loves to have a tea party. She loves carrying the little picnic basket on her arm and sitting down with someone to have a tea party. I've been showing her how to set up all her little stuffed animals and dolls around her to play with them and she just loves it. She also loves her cousin "Feo". She yells his name whenever we facetime and insists on seeing him first. They say "Hi" back and forth to each other like 10 times and just smile. When they see each other in person they run and give each other hugs, it's seriously the cutest thing ever.

Her and Caiden are pretty much on the same schedule with sleeping. We put them down to bed at the same time between 7-8pm and they wake up between 6-8am. She naps for a couple hours in the afternoon at the same time as Caiden.

But they are two drastically different people and I couldn't imagine it any other way. I LOVE having a girl and know that we are going to butt heads in so many ways as we both grow together but it's so, so wonderful having a cute girlie, girl in the house. She loves to wear hair clips, lets me braid her hair and usually insists on picking out her outfits (which are the same two shirts she likes to wear every other day). Marc and I say all the time how lucky we are to have a girl and we just love her to death!

OH, THE DRAMA!

These two are like two peas in a pod. They just follow each other around and play together.