Grocki Family News: I'm back!

Its hard to remember what we have done since the last time I posted anything! Its been pretty busy around here. I'm watching another little girl for the summer named Morgan. She is a year older than Abby but they play well together...for the most part. There are times where I should be wearing a black and white stripe shirt and a whistle! Audrey is doing well. She will be 4 months old on Saturday! I cant believe it! She is smiling a lot and talking too. She is almost rolling over but cant seem to coordinate everything to get all the way over yet. When she does finally get it, she's just going to get mad because then she will be stuck on her stomach. She'll figure it out eventually. She also slept thru the night in her crib for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was so nice! Lately, she has been getting up in the middle of the night but we get her back to sleep pretty easily without a bottle. It's almost like she wants to make sure that we are still in the house or something! Abby is starting back up with dance class for the summer so she is excited about that. Actually, Abby's big dance recital is one of the larger events that we have had in our lives since my last post. She was so wonderful. She got up on stage at the high school and danced her little heart out in front of a couple hundred people. This is her official recital picture.

we were so proud of her...I cried when she was done. She has come such a long way from crying because she didn't want to go in to the studio for the first class!
Abby also had a wonderful sleep over at Nana and Big Bear's house with her cousin Alasen. They had a princess tea party sleep over and had a great time. We also were able to see Jon's aunt and uncle from Texas as well as his grandparents. Since we didn't want to go all the way home and then drive back to Detroit area the next day to pick up Abby, we stayed at Ashley and Will's house. We were going to have game night with them, but early in the evening a violent ping pong game delayed our plans. Ashely and I weren't downstairs to witness this, but apparently Jon got mad because Will was winning and somehow caused a gash in Will's head. I'm just kidding. What really happened was Will went to get the ball that had rolled over by the circuit breaker box (is that what you call it?) and didn't realize that the cover was open. When he bent down to pick up the ball, he hit his head on the corner of the metal cover and cut his head open.

He was able to stop the bleeding and use butterfly bandages to close up the wound. He did have to shave his head though...poor guy! Hope your head is feeling better Will! After the excitement, we were able to play a game and chat for a while. The next day was church and back to Nana and Big Bear's house for family dinner with the other side of Jon's family. Then back home for a short week as Abby, Audrey and I took Morgan and her mom Adrienne up to Manistee for a couple of relaxing days! The drive up wasn't very relaxing though since Audrey decided to cry for about a 1/2 hour. But we made it and had a great time. We went to the beach, watched movies, relaxed and went to the Bargain Barn! For those of you not familiar with the bargain barn, its a treasure trove of items that were overstocks at other stores and now are priced really cheap! I noticed a lot of stuff from linens and things, which went out of business in December. Found lots of goodies for the girls and myself. Came home on Saturday so we could enjoy fathers day as a family. We didn't do anything really exciting except I made Jon mac and cheese. The real stuff with whole milk and butter! And I mowed the lawn so he wouldn't have to. Actually, I enjoy doing the yard work so I probably would have done it anyway! :) Thats my update...not sure when I will post next. Here are some new pictures of recent events...
Uncle Dave, Aunt Pat, Grandma and Grandpa Volkening and us...