The Smily One

Yep, that pretty much sums up Grace. She always has a smile on her face. Even when she is in trouble. Which sometimes makes this mom a little bit annoyed, but for the most part, we love that smile.

She also talks. A lot. One of these days I'm going to have to get a recording of her talking, because she just goes nonstop. Half the time she makes up words so as not to have to pause to think of one that will work. If you listen to her though, you would think she knows exactly what she is talking about. She is very convincing. Her prayers are the best.

Grace can be the girliest of girls one minute and then be a total tomboy the next. She loves to play Pokemon, and Beyblade fighting games with her brothers. She also loves tea parties and all thing princess. Everything is lovely and beautiful. Walking home from church with Ryan the other day she said, " Oh, what a beautiful day, the sun and the breeze make it perfect, I just need to take it all in!"

(First day of preschool Sept. 2014, she posed for me about 100 different ways. Oh and side note, she only made it about 4 days before she decided she hated preschool and we quit)

She loves to play soccer like her big brothers and can't wait for her soccer games on Saturdays. She also can't wait until she can have Soccer practice during the week. She always complains that only the boys get to have practice. While the boys complain about having to go to practice.

(Ready for her first soccer game)

She has a lot of energy. She's my little fire cracker. You know when I first found out I was having a girl after my two boys, a lot of people told me how much easier girls were. How they are calm and just sit and read books all day. I was really looking forward to that after my busy busy boys. Grace has outdone them in just about every way. From climbing and getting into things to attitude and disobedience. We are struggling a little right now with her listening. She just thinks she can do whatever she wants, even if Mom or Dad are telling her to stop. Hopefully we'll figure it out soon.

Grace and Faith have a really sweet relationship. They both really love each other. Ty and Cody have always had a little bit of sibling rivalry between them, but so far the girls are really sweet to each other. They will both give loves to the other if they are hurt or sad. 

This girl LOVES horses. She has claimed our horse Valentina as her own, even though Valentina really isn't broke enough for Grace to ride her. She loves to brush her and give her grain and sometimes, even though it scared me to death, Ryan will let her ride her while he holds onto the lead rope. Her first birthday party, when she turned 3, we brought the horses to our house and gave all the kids a ride around the circle. Then the next year she wanted to do that again, but we only do parties every other year. On the off year she is supposed to invite someone to go somewhere fun. She chose to take her two cousins up to see the horses.

(Sitting on and brushing her beloved Valentina)

We sure love this smily little girl. She has brought a lot of joy and girly girl and energy to our lives. There is so much more I could write about this crazy little thing but we'll leave it at that for now. I love you Grace Mary.