The Gracetress is Back

The Gracetress is blogging again. She'd love it if you stopped by and said hello.

Beauty

The things that are happening

The Gracetress dresses up as a Union soldier who is really a woman impersonating a man so she can be a field medic and serve her country. Oh yeah. That just happened.

The Suze plans her great EsCape.

And also shows great attitude in her car seat. 

And also, I do exist.

La Princess

Hair Today

Theres no occasion too small for a good dress-up

Im Freaking Awesome

I mopped my floor tonight. For the first time. In. Several. Months. I'm not going to specify how many. That will make me seem less awesome.

In other news, my girls are besties.

Visiting the Fallen Heros

On Sunday, we went to the Boalsburg Military Museum to talk about making the hard choice even when you are scared and either way things won't end well for you. I wanted to remember the Flight 93 heroes. I also wanted to acknowledge the first responders to the towers as well as the first responders in our community. So we walked and we talked and took a few pictures.

How was your Sunday?

Ready For The Runway

I think they've both mastered The Pout.

Sweet Moments

The Babes

Eating peppers. Ok. Gumming. There were no actual peppers harmed in the making of these pictures.

       

Random Pictures

Mom, Mom!! Come look! Okay. You can take a picture if you want to."

The girls love their books.

Seriously. The Babe loves her sister. The Gractetress already has a #1 fan- but not in a creepy way.

   The Gracetress is working on an Oregon Trail project. For extra credit she made a doll (or actually accessorized a doll that Grandma made). She drew the face, made the clothes, styled the hair. Let it be known: I sewed the hair. (Dude. I can sew doll hair. Who knew?)

  "Conan The Babe-arian". Is anyone else hearing the muppet version of "In the navy"? No? Ok, just me then.

We tried giving CK rice cereal. She was faintly amused at first. Then puzzled. Then a little gaggy. At which point, the attempted feeding ended. Better luck next time.








The other night Grace needed to clarify which era I came from: "So, did you grow up in The Depression or was it during Segregation?"

I do love a light moment.

So we're all well here and I have nothing really to say. Other than The Gracetress is the best. My baby is the sweetest. And all that.

Baby Bath

We've discovered that CK loves bath-time even more when The Gracetress hops in with her. Everything is better with a sister.




This is a random stare-down of CK's new friend, "Spider."

Aaaaand here we have the baby snow leopard in its natural habitat:

New Baby. A Retrospective?

Is that the correct word? Who knows but here's a few pictures while I catch up on a little sleep. Or something.

New baby Camille.





And she likes to snuggle!







And laugh. She's a happy one.










And sleep. She loves to sleep.




But mostly she loves her sister.






Yep. I love having a new baby in the house. She's wonderful and everything I could ever want in a baby. (And I think she loves me best of all ;) )

The Gracetress has taken it all in stride and is the wonderful daughter we have always known her to be. And now she is the fantastic sister she has always wanted to be.

We are so very happy and so very blessed right now.

P.S. J will make it into the next round of photos. He's been doing much of the picture taking and the foot work around the house -which is why he's absent.