17th February 2007

Duane has been sick for the last week. Constant Diarrhea and dehydrated! That has made life interesting looking after him and Gracie!

Gracie is being incredibly cute at the moment. She is learning so many new and exciting things! She loves to copy and tries her hardest to do the same things as us!

She follows me out to the clothesline and hands me up the washing to hang out. Only problem is she must think that I am super fast because she hands them up to me at lightening speed! After all the clothes are up she hunts around for all the old broken pegs, insisting that they should be put into the washing basket! She collects as many as she can…sometimes a few rocks are thrown in as well!

She adores being outside. She loves going in and out of her cubby house…and gets super excited if any of the dogs pay her a visit! She giggles and squeals with delight…even if they are just checking out her home through the window.

She also has a sand pit but only likes to enjoy it from the outside. She hates putting her feet or god forbid sit in sand. She barely likes getting her hands in it! We mainly just build sandcastles for her to destroy with her shovel or spade! She takes great pleasure in bashing down our masterpieces! With all the fun and exciting things that she has to do outside her all time favourite is the dog water bowl! She loves nothing more than to conquer the barriers that we have erected to keep her away from it. First she goes around the sandpit cover, crawls under the chairs and over to the enticing water! She loves just playing in the water and splashing it about everywhere. Sometimes we are lucky and she forgets its there…but as soon as she hears one of the dogs taking a big sip…..her eye’s light up and she is on a mission to get to it!

Gracie also loves giving herself dizzy whizzes! She goes round and round holding her arms out like a plane. She keeps going until she is obviously struggling to stay upright then she usually veers off or falls over. However she still has some control when she falls over…usually she goes into a headstand…kinda like “dog-pose” in yoga! It’s actually been one of her favourite things to do for a while now. Sometime she gets into her pose and waves at you with both hands…balancing on her head! She loves being upside down! Crazy kid!!