Gracie the Gummer

This is Gracie giving her now famous "gummer smile". She started this about a month ago and it totally makes us laugh- she squints her eyes and gives a huge cheesy grin. Where do babies learn these things? Well, all I can say is that it is pretty darn cute.
These other pictures are some of Gracie's new hair-dos. Her hair is finally long enough for me to put it up in a little elastic. It sticks straight up but I can't believe how grown up it makes her seem- especially because she has just never had much hair. The other pictures are of the day that I put a pink spongie curly in Gracie's hair to see if I could get a cute curl. It didn't really work, but at least we had fun trying. I included the other picture of Gracie sucking her thumb because my checker at the grocery store yesterday said that she had never actually seen a baby suck her thumb. I used to think this was a really cute habit until last week when Gracie swished her hand around in the toilet bowl and then sucked her thumb. (I might have to delete this gross story from my blog, but for now I'll push my pride aside and share it).