Happy New Year and Nine Months!

Today is Greta's 9 month birthday. Happy Birthday Baby Girl!
Greta surprised me by reaching up and playing the piano today...I didn't know she could get up there quite yet.

She had a great day today. The holidays have gotten us all into the habit of sleeping in, and today Greta slept till after 9:30! She woke up very refreshed and ready to play...when Matthew went in to get her she was chatting with her little stuffed dragon. One thing Greta is doing a lot of lately is babbling and waving--she is very talkative and very friendly! She waves often at herself, at her toys (especially this big penguin the nanny I work with gave her for Christmas), and of course at other people. One time, in the middle of nursing her, she stopped for a second, looked up, smiled, and waved at me--then went back to business! It was adorable.
Wow! Lots of pandas!! For Christmas Grandpa Mac and Grandma Linda gave Greta this cute stuffed panda. She already had a plastic panda, and I recently got her a book about pandas from the library...what a theme.

This is Greta's "bitter beer face" as many people have been calling it--she makes this face a lot lately.
Grandpa Paul ordered us a new carrier for Christmas. Here is Greta riding in it on Papa's back. She can be carried on our backs, our sides, or facing us in the front--it's great! She was getting a little big for our old one...

After our final batch of company left on Saturday Matthew and I were feeling the post-holiday blahs--so we took a little drive down to a place called Steveston, about 20 minutes south of us. It's a cute old fishing town by the Fraser River. We walked around and enjoyed our time there--and Greta had a nice snooze in the back pack.
On Christmas and New Year's Day Matthew made turkey pot pies. Here is the beautiful one from New Year's Day. No more meat for me now! (until next Thankgiving...MAYBE)

Greta had her first taste of meat via Matthew's culinary magic (I ground some up for her), what a milestone.
Aunt Jenny with her niece. They got to spend some quality time together over New Years! Jenny even played the piano for Greta and sang her "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"...another milestone :-)
The outfit my mom made Greta for Christmas was adorable, but didn't fit quite right...so in a matter of a couple days she whipped up another one to send with Jenny when she came to visit! Here is Greta in her new dress with matching pants underneath--it is so cute on her.
New Year's Eve in her tutu!
We had round 3 of Christmas with my dad and sister. So many presents!
Greta loves the bows.

Here is a video I took of Greta playing the piano today. Sorry, I couldn't rotate it. Oh, and it's rather poor quality because I took it with my regular camera...we don't know how to get videos from our actual video camera onto the computer yet. I hope you enjoy it anyway!