In and Out

Just recently Greta has taken quite an interest in climbing into her baskets. This basket houses some of her toys out near our living room--and now it often houses Greta as well!

What a cozy spot!
Glamorous Greta :-)
The other day we had a picnic snack in the afternoon near our neighborhood park. Aunt Jenny gave Greta these sunglasses for her birthday, and--surprisingly--she kept them on for nearly our whole outing!
All ready for summer! Sunglasses, sun hat, sandals, skirt, and sun lotion!
Mama and Greta. She really says "Mama" for me now! Matthew says that sometimes when I'm away she looks at my picture and says "Mama"......aaaaaahhhh :-) She kind of says it like a little French girl or something: "ma-MA"
Last weekend our friends Curtis and Julia and their little Lillian came for a visit. Lillian will be 2 in July--she and Greta are about 9 months apart. Every time we get together they have more and more fun together!
Here they are spending time together in Greta's tent. It was almost like they wanted to be alone to tell each other secrets or something! Greta would run in there so fast to escape from us if we tried to snatch her away for a diaper change or a nose wipe. Sometimes she'd go back into her tent in such a hurry that she wouldn't even take time to duck to get through the tent doorway, she'd just let her face and head collide against the tent, sometimes causing her to smack face down when she finally got through! It was hilarious!!! (until she got hurt...)
We hadn't seen Greta this hyper since Christmas--she had a blast with Lillian!
Sitting in another basket in her room. What a nice spot to read a little story :-)
There is a hockey rink a few blocks away from us. During the late spring and all throughout summer it is converted to a "Play Palace" for children. There is a toddler area with lots of slides, tunnels, balls, and blocks--and there are huge bouncy castles and slides for older children. This week I worked from home, so I was around quite a bit more than usual. I took Greta to the Play Palace one morning and then Matthew brought her back there again for the afternoon. She and I had a great time! I even went in a bouncy castle with Greta (no one else was in it) and down the "big kids" bouncy slide with Greta (I later discovered that I wasn't really supposed to do either of those things...bummer for next time!)
Greta spent a lot of time playing in this house at the Play Palace. I guess she played in this house quite a bit in the afternoon with Matthew too. She liked joining in with the older girls "playing house"...even though they mostly wanted her out of their hair! Fortunately she found something else to do before they got too grouchy with her!

Out for a walk to the park today! I love the pigtails! She looks so grown up, doesn't she?
Definitely not a baby anymore.
I think she's either pointing to the rhodadendrons or a crow...she's really into birds lately and I think she even tries to say "Cah!" like a crow.
She also has been trying to say "bear" and "bummer" lately (I've been encouraging the "bummer", I have to admit...)

I'll leave you with a video of Greta climbing into a basket; enjoy!
(sorry, it ends abruptly because my memory card was full--oops)