Sunbeams

Grace attended Primary for the first time last Sunday as an official Sunbeam. She had such a wonderful time. She just adores singing time. She's been teaching Claire the "Hello, Hello" song all week. It's so cute to watch her sing and do the actions along with the words. Her Sunbeam teacher is my friend Jaime, who is AWESOME with those little 3 year olds. All day Sunday Grace was telling me that Sister Pilcher is her friend. There's only two other kids in her her class, Oakley and Tony.

I just love the Primary organization in our church and the way it teaches and instills the most basic gospel principles in our little ones. Grace is developing such a sweet and simple testimony of Jesus Christ that will continue to grow and develop as she gets older and moves on through Primary and Young Women's.

Grace has always been pretty independent, but it seems as though it's becoming more obvious as she gets older. She insists on saying prayers all by herself now. She said the blessing on the food last Sunday evening and would not let us help her. She did such a great job, even blessing the food without any prompting from Justin or myself. She has led us in family prayer a couple of nights this week and when we try to help her or remind her what to say she gets very upset and says, "I can do it myself!" Gotta love her strong-willed, stubborn personality!

I also took Grace to her 3 year check-up this week. She weighs 38 pounds (94%) and is 39 1/4 inches tall (91%). She enjoyed showing the doctor all the neat things she's capable of doing, but she really, really could have done without the shot. She had to get one in her thigh this time and it was very traumatic. Good thing they had a purple lollipop to make it all better!

Here are a few tidbits about Grace at 3 years old:

• favorite color is purple
• she talks ALL. THE. TIME. and in really good sentences now
• you have to repeat back to her what she has just said or else she will say it over, and over, and over, and over again
• She loves princesses
• likes to build towers with blocks and boxes
• likes to play with friends
• favorite food is quesadillas
• has a new chocolate lab puppy named Jenny
• loves to help mommy bake cookies and cupcakes
• can count to 15 and recognize numbers up to 10
• knows her entire alphabet, can recognize all letters and knows their sounds
• knows all her colors
• she's potty trained!!!
• still takes a nap every afternoon (yay!)
• loves to sing and dance
• remembers EVERYTHING!