equal "air time" for all the kids...

(this post must be accompanied by a beautiful picture before i proceed...)

GRACE...

(as defined by "dictionary.com")
–noun
1. elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.

let's just say that while i love MY gracie girl with every fiber of my being, she does not always live up to the defination of her name. call it irony.

case(s) in point...(you may see a pattern here)

*while jogging on the treadmill last week, she slipped OFF and fell. this resulted in a long "treadmill burn" (aka rope or rug burn) all the way up her left arm.

*while jumping on the bed with scissors at 5 (good heavens...WHERE? was the girls mother i might ask!--apparently NOT as omni-present as i SHOULD be! that's where!) she ended up falling and jabbing herself in the eye--and while you could actually see an imprint in her eye from the point of the scissor tip, her eye was perfectly fine. (angels watching over)

*5 was a bad year...she burned her hand on a hot stove testing it see if said stove actually WAS hot. (sure enough!) just a note: she was forewarned many times on this occassion!

*same year....grabbed a carving knife and cut her finger with it (i SWEAR i watch my kids)


so let us just say that we are praying she doesn't ever want to try out for cheerleader. (but certainly we WILL support her should that be her choice)
and while she may not be the most coordinated of all my kids...she is lovely! and smart! and i am quite certain that the "smartness" alone will get her somewhere in this life.

if not, she can always fall back on her looks! (or on to a pair of sharp scissors, or off of a moving treadmill...OR...)

we love you grace!

*edited to add: grace said this post SEVERLY lacks the "raving review" i gave josh. i explained that i love her equally as much, and that in loving her "equally" there are things about her that i adore that are COMPLETELY different than her brother. Grace, while NOT graceful, is quirky and fun and funny and completely HERSELF (which is quite an accomplishment thus far in her 12 yrs. in life). i LOVE that she is an "individual" and does not have to follow what everyone else is doingand being and saying, she is QUITE comfortable in her VERY OWN SKIN...and i LOVE that she falls off the treadmill when running. it makes me laugh, not AT her, but WITH her. since i know her so well...i would expect nothing less from her! On the other hand i would not ever expect josh or eliza or olivia to do that--they have their OWN QUIRKS!

she makes me laugh, she enjoys living, she enjoys falling, she enjoys laughing....
you can rent her too if you want! she would be money well spent as well~
is that better grace? XO, mom