Update

Can I please have that camera?

Mommy's little helper

Well, I figured I would try to squeeze in one more post before the end of the month.  Let's just say I am glad this month is about over.  My dad had his open-heart surgery on the 25th and is still recovering in the hospital.  Thankfully, everything seems to be looking good and now he just has the long road to recovery in front of him.  He was in surgery for about 5 1/2 hours - even though they told us it would take 4-6 hours I wasn't really expecting it to take that long since my mom's only took a little under 3.  They had told us it would take 4-6 hrs with my mom and I will never forget that feeling of terror when they called us back so soon to talk to the surgeon.  I figured it had to be bad news if they were already done.  So when my dad's took so long I started really worrying that something had gone wrong.  Right now he may be coming home as early as Mon or Tues of next week.  It will be interesting taking care of both a parent and a child at the same time :)

Grace is so close to crawling on her hands and knees.  Right now she gets up on her knees and rocks back and forth - it looks pretty funny.  We call her our "Humpty Dumpty" :)  It's really funny when we put her in her crib to sleep and we can watch her doing it on the monitor.  Cracks us up every time!!  The other day Jeff was sitting on the floor of the living room trying to read the paper and, of course, Grace wanted the paper SO BAD!  He put it up one step on the hardwood and she actually almost crawled completely up the step to try to get it.  She couldn't quite figure out how to get her knees above the step.  We have learned that if we want her to do something new, all we have to do is let her think she can get something forbidden!

Going for it....

What?  I'm not doing anything!!

 My sister is still here from NC so I have been watching Eliana sometimes while she goes to the hospital to see my dad.  Watching the girls play together is so much fun!  Eliana has a little snuggle toy that she is really attached to, and Grace tried to play with it one day, and Eliana whipped it out of her hand and gave her THE LOOK.  It was hilarious!  It's so funny how even though they are still so young they already want the toy that the other one is playing with.  I wonder when the true fighting will actually start?