She's Walking!!

Finally, Gracie took her first steps this week! She is still very cautious, but she is already starting to become more confident with her walking. She will walk from John to me and vice versa or from the furniture to one of us. Gracie is definitely getting excited about her new-found independence. She pitched a fit for us to let her walk around Wal-Mart holding our hands instead of sitting in the cart. (The crazy thing is that after the joy of seeing her take her first steps wore off, I got really sad because she's growing up entirely too quickly. Seeing your children grow up seems so bittersweet sometimes.) Anyway, here is some footage of our (it's official) "toddler."

Grin and Bear It

Ok, this is one of my favorite pieces of video from our Charleston trip. We went to Charles Towne Landing and they had a small animal park there. We were really lucky that a bear came right up to the fence where we were. Listen for Gracie (with her Southern twang) saying hey to the bear. Also, I like her response when I ask her what a bear says.

Chocolate!!!!

The result of Gracie's first chocolate Easter bunny...

Down in the Low Country

We were so blessed to have an awesome vacation to Charleston this past week. We saw tons of stuff and I took over 400 pictures!!! Gracie got to experience the beach for the first time, and we got to go to places like Fort Sumter and Patriots Point (where we got to get on a submarine and aircraft carrier).

I have so many pictures from last week. Here are some of my favorites.