grace anne kepley

AMEN! It was an all nighter!

I'm not saying what you are thinking.. we weren't up all night. It wasn't like the college days, I wasn't re-living nights like the night before that Finance final, nope... it was a much more pleasant experience. The all-nighter I'm referring to is... Grace Anne sleeping ALL night. The very first time! She has been doing much better, going to bed around 11 or 12 and sleeping until 3 or 4 and then going back down until 7 or so. Last night she slept from 11:30 until 6am! It was amazing. I woke up a couple times to check on her because it seemed so surreal. Daddy even woke up to check on her. Since she's been sleeping well and only waking up once, Daddy has been letting Mommy take that duty-- which is alright since he probably needs a night's sleep more than Mommy. Well, when she woke up at 6am she ate and was back asleep by 7am! At 9:30 Daddy got up with her and Mommy got to lay in bed! It was fabulous! Mommy laid there listening to Daddy talk to her and hearing her coo.

The weather was great and Mommy was able to convince Daddy to go to Sequoyah Hills and take a stroll down Cheerokee Blvd. There were tons of runners, walkers and even pups out on the trail. We walked about 3 and half miles with Grace Anne happily strapped in the Baby Bjorn! We even ran into Dr. Many (Mommy's ob/gyn). She said "Hey, I know you all!"-- Daddy and Mommy gave her a puzzled look wondering who was hiding behind big sunglasses and sure enough.. it was Mommy's doctor. She stopped and chatted a second and was happy to see Grace Anne out soaking up a healthy amount of Vitamin D.

We returned home and Daddy resumed to his post on the couch. Sundays are for resting-- Daddy truly lives by that adage! Grace Anne and Mommy went to the Tacketts for dinner. We had lots of fun hanging out with the Tacketts and Shirleys. Brenda cooked a yummy dinner. Kim and John, with Channing's help, started taking pictures of Grace Anne and I'm pretty impresssed. Yeah she is a beautiful baby, who wouldn't want to take pictures of her... but, I love the ones he shot and I definitely think we need to take him up on more photo shoots (not that he necessarily volunteered... I'm just volunteering him). All the pictures on the post today, he took!