Ellie is 4 months old!

Ellie a few days old




Ellie 4 months old

Ellie is growing fast and getting to be such a big girl. It's hard to believe that she joined our family only four months ago, and at the same time it's hard to remember our family without her. She is such a great baby, she's almost always happy, unless she's hungry! Her personality is shining through more every day. Ellie made some big accomplishments this month, she started rolling over a few weeks ago and now is trying to go places. We put her down in one place and turn around she's gone! You know when she has hit a dead end because she will start to whimper for us to come and save her!

Another thing that has been very exciting is that we have all gotten a few nights of uninterrupted sleep! I am not too excited though because I think another growth spurt is on it's way so this may be short lived! Ellie goes to the Dr. on the 2nd and I am very interested to see how big she has gotten. As many of you know Ellie is a much bigger girl than Josie was, so it is different to have a big girl. At 2 months Ellie was the same size that Josie was at 4 months, so we will see how they compare at Ellie's 4 month appointment.

Josie starts swimming lessons

Josie had her first swimming lesson this past Saturday. She goes to a swim school called Aqua-tots. She is in a level 2 class, which is a parent/child toddler class. Daddy took her in the water her first class and Mommy and Ellie watched, OK Mommy watched and Ellie napped. Josie learned how to "monkey walk", walk along the side of the pool with her hands...




She has also learned to climb out of the pool all by herself...



Josie had a blast and can't wait to go back for her lesson this week. She is very happy in the pool, but needs to be a little more relaxed when she is on her back so that she can learn to float. Brian did say that is was difficult to make Josie let him hold her. She is so used to her water wings and being independent that she forgets that she won't stay above water on her own, luckily Daddy has quick reflexes!

The Nuky Fairy came!!

Josie woke up very excited to see what the nuky fairy had brought her, this is what she found...

My little girl is growing up!

Tonight was a big night at the Grant house, the nuky fairy came and took all of Josie's nukys to the babies that need them. I have been talking to Josie about the nuky fairy at bed time and telling her that soon the nuky fairy would come to our house and take all Josie's nukys to give to other babies that didn't have any. The first few times I mentioned this she quickly decided that she was not a big girl and that she still needed her nukys. Then tonight as I was putting her to bed we were done reading her bedtime story and Josie turned to me and said "Mommy, I ready for the nuky fairy to come today." I was shocked, if you know Josie you know she loves her nukys. She has only had them at nap time and bedtime for a while now, but as soon as it's time to go to bed it is the first thing that she asks for. I was hoping to wait until the weekend because I was expecting tears and sleepless nights, but she insisted that she was ready tonight. So we gathered up all of Josie's nukys, there were a lot of them, put them in a box and left them in the kitchen for the nuky fairy to come and take them away.

She did get out of bed twice, once I put her back to bed and reminded her about the nuky fairy leaving her a present after she fell asleep and she asked a lot of questions and when she was satisfied I left her with her hockey Goldy and said goodnight. The next time she got out of bed she went to Daddy, she knows he's the softy! He took her back to bed and she told him "I just need one nuky." Daddy was tough and told her that she has to give them all to the nuky fairy. I was almost as proud of Brian as I was of Josie at this point. That was the last that we heard from Josie tonight. I went to check on her at 9:3o and she was fast asleep laying across her pillows.

I was very proud of Josie for deciding on her own that she was ready to give up her nukys, but at the same time I am a little sad to see my little girl grow up.