A day in the life of Grace (or What are you doing?!?)

For those of you without multiple small children what you are going to read may be disturbing. For everyone else, be prepared for a good laugh.

I sometimes wonder what must be going through Grace's head. She is a very bright little girl, so I am baffled by her behavior some days. On the way home from Appleton on Wednesday I looked back in the van after I heard Grace smacking her lips. She was wiping her hand on the bottom of her shoe and then licking her fingers! Aarrgghh! Later that same day we found her giving her husky stuffed dog a drink of water from her glass. She was made that there was a puddle on the floor. :-)

Yesterday as the boys were working on a project involving paint, Grace was using watercolor paints for the first time. She proceeded to dip her fingers in the paint and then get mad that she had dirty hands. Then she alternated between dipping the paper towel in water and paint. What a mess, she even had paint in her ear! Thankfully it is washable paint and it can't possible hurt her anymore than whatever she ingested from the bottom of her shoe the previous day.

While the boys finished painting she took off to play and we heard her yell, "Doggie, did you make?" (Which is her version of Did you go potty?) I feared she may have put the stuffed doggie on the potty chair or possibly in the real toilet. What a relief when I found him sitting on the carpet reading books. But I still dread the day when this may happen, she doesn't let her two dogs out of her sight for 15 minutes, so washing them is a tremendous effort on my part.

With all that said, she is still so cute and sweet. I will often find her sitting with her doggies reading them multiple books or putting them to bed. She loves to dance and play with her brothers.

We love you Grace and all the smiles you bring to our house!