My final post for 2009

It's New Years Eve and we're all doing great. Gwyneth LOVED Christmas. She's still singing "Happy Birthday to Jesus and Gary" anytime she thinks of Jesus she also thinks of Gary. She's doing an amazing job at praying. She loves to name a list of people to protect. I LOVE IT. We have been attending Killearn United Methodist Church and we LOVE it. I love the contemporary service the most, however getting there at 9:30 seems to be impossible except that one morning that i went into labor (that's the last time i've been that early, haha) we ususally go to the traditional 11am service. This past service was a "sunday school sit in" since they didn't have sunday school that morning she was with me in service ( I now know how mom felt with Gary and I in the church pews!!) They had a christening/baptism of a baby and little boy that morning and I told her "look Gwyn they are getting baptised like you and Grayce did in VA with Granny and Grandpa." She looks at me said and says "momma i can do it again? Is it my turn now? I want water on my head again" She even said it loud enough that others heard her. She is such an amazing dancer in church and at home. She closes her eyes and "feels" it. She rocks and moves her hands according to the tempo. She also "shake my booty like Gary does" in the car alot. I love it and it always makes me happy. I have been crying a lot over Gary this past year, some sad tears, however, mostly happy tears. Gwyn just looks at me know and says "you sad momma? you miss Gary?" I say "yes baby very much, wanna blow him kisses?" and we do.

Gwyneth LOVES LOVES LOVES gymnastics. I couldn't be more happy. She's really good at it as well. We've only been there one month and she is amazing on the bar! I love watching her. She's also made a few friends in the class, Aria, Payton and Nyla. She always says "time to go to gymnastics and play with all my friends." She had her 3rd birthday party at Zoinks and Aria and Nyla came. They were jumping in the jump houses, playing arcade games and winning tickets. Nana made her a Minnie Mouse cake and I made her Ice Cream Cupcake Cones. She got a coach purse from Aunt Kelsey, strawberry shortcake doll from Nicole and Joe, a guitar from Dede, Real looking Kitty--ect-from Nana, money-doll-ect from gramma and a ton of Minnie stuff from mommy and daddy. A week later she was in Gymnastics competition and won a medal (they all did) and the following week was Aria's Birthday Party. They went to Two Bit's Farm and had so much fun. Gwyn loves horses now, it's adorable. She rode Tater, and feed him some Goldfish and he loved them. He "neighed" at her and she said "aww momma he's saying thank you for his goldfish" i laughed at her. They got to paint Tater, do a scavenger hunt (gwyn was running in her "cowboy girl boots and hat" and got cut off by some of the kids and belly flopped on the ground. She was fine but it scared her. They had a cookie cake and Gwyn loved it!

I'm going to try and put her in preschool at Killearn over the summer and if not in Aug for sure if they have openings. Aria attends that preschool as well so i'm really excited about that!! She's ready...always walking around with her backpack on saying "it's time for school momma. "

Grayce is sprouting up like a weed. Her and Gwyn do look similar in their baby pictures. Other than the fact that Gwyn had more hair and a bigger forehead. Grayce looks like a great mixture of mine and Gary's baby picturses. She is always smiling and laughing. She loves to watch and listen to Gwyn (laughing and smiling at her) Gwyn loves the attention from her. She of course LOVES me and is always touching my face with her hand and smiling (i melt every time.) She's a full on thumb sucker now and it's not stopping. It is so sweet though. She's drooling alot, so i'm assuming she's teething. She LOVES to nurse. She almost always refuses a bottle of formula. She'll be starving and still spit the formula out, waiting on me to give her that yummy sweet breast milk, haha. It's going to be hard to stop nursing her since she loves it so much, however, between school and work it's going to slow down alot and so i might as well wean her from it then.

She had found her toes and loves to play with them. She turns into this little rolly polly when she grabs them both. She is really great at stitting up with very little support, rolling over easily from her stomach to her back and from her back to her sides. She is just like Gwyn in not liking belly time. This little girl LOVES to watch football. She cried one day when matt and scott were watching a game and changed it to a non football channel. They changed it back and she stopped. She also cries if a Gator game is on and you turn it (Scott almost cried, however, we believe she just likes the color blue and that's all, haha =) She LOVES bath time, especially when it's with Gwyneth and watching bubbles. She'll just watch them float around and try to grab them and cackle at them.

Matt and I are doing great. Can't wait for our little vacation in Feb to St.Aug and Orlando to see Bob Saget's comedy show. We are staying busy with the girls and work. In a few weeks we are braving the task of tiling the living room and hallway. A few months later we want to put cork flooring in the bedrooms. I'm SOOOO tired of dog pee all over the carpet. I steam clean it every day and it still stinks. So problem solved. We are trying to pick the ceramic pattern that we like next week and they are measuring our sq footage on monday morning. I'm hoping to talk matt into a greenish brown tile on the darker side. We also want to put glass tiles around the fire place and i'm very excited to pick those colors out. I'm thinking a red/green/brown tint to tie everything together. Our next move is to add a two car garage on to the house but we need permits for that so we'll wait till next year most likely. Then it's on to the bathrooms (i'm trying to talk matt into expanding our bathroom and bedroom wall so we can make it a real master bathroom and have a bigger room (my hideout). The swing set that matt has put together is so beautiful. I'm very proud of him. Him and Jackie put it together in two days. He later framed it and put in a sandbox and rubber mulch. It's still not finished but it's close, plus we need a lot more mulch to finish it and probally more sand since gwyn loves to "build" cakes on her picnic table and and sand castles on the slide and then go down the slide and "knock it over"