Mommy & Gracie Day

I have had enough of this weather! Its forcing the gloom outside to come inside! Today Gracie and I are going to fight back and spend the day together having fun--just the two of us.

We started off by stopping off at the Food Lion for some power food (fruities & a diet Pepsi), then we sang as loud as we could to our Backyardigan's CD all the way to Winchester. When we got there, we made our first stop at the Handley Library. Gracie had won a prize for the summer reading program and I kept forgetting to pick it up. She was very happy to carry her Chick-Fil-A cow around for the rest of the day. We walked around the library for a little while, but didn't check out any books since we were up to our limit.

Now it was lunch time! We rode over to the mall's food court where I got Chinese and Gracie got chicken nuggets and fruit from her cow's home. Unfortunately Gracie was far too excited about going and playing in the playroom and I was hardly able to get her to take 3 bites! She waited as long as she could, and I got as much of my lunch down as possible, and then we joined the other preschoolers in the playroom.

I watched in amazement as Gracie took right to the toys and the other kids. I had worried that Gracie would have a hard time in school because she was an only kid and not around other children. I guess taking her to storytime this summer really did work, because she was chasing these kids and laughing and dancing like she knew them all of her life. I was so thrilled to see how happy she was. And, I tried not to let the fact that she was a big as the 4 and 5 year olds kill my buzz. I knew she was big for her age, and the other mom's proved that point when I asked how old their "darlings" were. I decided not to dwell on it, after all Gracie is very healthy and well proportioned--but, I am sure those kids were really confused since Gracie couldn't talk as well as they did, and she didn't follow the directions to their made up games very well.

After nearly 2 hours, I started to gather up my little social butterfly and we said our goodbyes. I knew she was exhausted and wound up, so I thought a stroll through the mall would be good exercise for me and a chance for her to calm down as well.

After several rides on those mechanical toys, and a small ice cream cone later we left the mall and got back on the road. While I knew Gracie needed to sleep, I didn't want to give up on a chance to stop by the thrift store. I was glad I stopped because they had a sale on books, all 25 cents! 26 books later I piled my very sleepy toddler back in her car seat and turned on the lullaby CD (at her request). She was sound a sleep by the time we made it home. I carried her up to the apartment satisfied that we had a wonderful mommy & me day!

**My batteries in my camera were dead and I couldn't get them charged before we left!!! I hate that I don't have pictures of our day, but it was good day none the less. ***

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