Greta's First Days of Christmas

After church, wearing one of her "Christmas dresses"...this one I picked out at a great vintage store in Jerome, Arizona!
Our little baby and our little Christmas tree. We opted for a small tree...due to our shortage of money and our busily crawling and exploring Greta. She loves it when the room is dark and the tree lights are on--she kind of chuckles excitedly and kicks her legs :-) I often stand next to the tree, holding her, and we just look at it for awhile. She tries to grab the tinsel and ornaments...
It's so fun experiencing her first Christmas with her! My favorite is when we turn on our John Denver and the Muppets Christmas CD that I used to listen to all the time as a kid. I think she especially likes the song Miss Piggy sings: Christmas is coming the goose is getting FAT!
It has been very, very, very cold here lately (in fact, there are snow flurries right now!) This doesn't stop us from going outside, but we have to get really bundled up. Here is Greta ready for an outing: shirt, sweater, hat, coat, pants, socks, and legwarmers...plus some shoes.
She looks like a little gnome here!
More than wearing these shoes, Greta likes to eat them. She has 3 pairs now, and Matthew thought it would be cute to put them in the entryway with our other shoes :-) So whenever Greta sees them lined up with mama and papa's boots--so easily accessible to her--she crawls over and gets them, and spends quite awhile putting them in her mouth before I have to snatch them away and struggle them onto her feet! Since Greta is so mobile now, all she wants to do is move, move, move! It can be quite an ordeal getting her dressed, and she's developed a strong will to fight us at times. Fiesty!
First words are on the way...Greta often says "Mamamamama" and "Dadadadadada" and is starting to show signs of associating these sounds with the right people! :-) Maybe that will be her Christmas present to us?