*making Gracie's Curious George birthday cake

*Gracie wearing her pajamas and snow hat as she licked the scraper after making her cake

*the girls discovering baby birds in the bushes

*going to the children's museum

*giving Gracie her presents

*eating the George cake

*Jim taking Gracie to tumbling

*Joseph and Lydia singing Happy Birthday to Gracie on the answering machine

*Madelyn running and hiding under a blanket when I told her it was time to go potty

*Madelyn folding her hands in prayer when Jim asked if she wanted a pear

*the way Madelyn kept putting her hands on top of her head as she stood against the monkeys to be measured

*Madelyn finding a roly poly on her own