Bike

As you can see from the look on Greta's face, she really likes being on the bike with Papa. A couple of days ago we took our maiden voyage as a family of 3 out on a bike ride. Some friends from our old church gave us the bike seat they don't use anymore, which was such a blessing! We got Greta a helmet, and when it was finally sunny we got ourselves all out for a ride! We rode down to the Southlands in Vancouver, which is kind of like being in the country in the middle of the city...there are lots of huge houses with lots of property and horses. Here Greta is looking at the horses.
Just outside our building...
Greta was nervous when we first put her on the seat, and she reached out for me. But once the bike started moving and she saw me get on mine she started smiling and looking around in awe of this new adventure! Now when she sees any bike she says so excitedly over and over and over "Biiii!!!"
On Sunday Greta was baptized at our church: St. John's Shaughnessy Anglican Church, where Matthew is an intern. The priest was Dan Gifford.
Greta and Mama playing dress up with scarves. Greta loves to play peek-a-boo with these! And she loves to play peek-a-boo with her hands too...she covers her eyes with her hands and we say "Where's Greta?" over and over and over again until she finally shows her face and we say "Boo!" Sometimes she makes us wait in suspense for a couple of minutes while she keeps her eyes hidden...and once she even walked around and ran into a doorway when she was hiding! Whoops!
At the park playing with rocks--one of her favorite things to do!
Rocks in each hand, doing the hand dance.
Matthew took these Bocci Balls out of the closet recently, and Greta was obsessed with looking at them and saying "Ball!" over and over and over!
After work the other day I had to make a few phone calls. I was out in the hallway doing this while Greta played in her room. When I got off the phone I heard paper crinkling--I walked into her room and saw her sitting on top of her table with her crayons and paper! She's getting really good at climbing, and she loves her crayons. She carries them around the house often.

Greta officially says "Caa Caa" for crows now (whenever she sees one she says this with enthusiasm), and she says "Daa" for "dance" (she loves to do the hand dance still...anytime she hears music she gets her hands going!)

She now has 4 top teeth in addition to her 2 bottom teeth! And just yesterday she got her first skinned knee. She was running and tripped. According to Matthew she really wailed about it, and then quickly became very interested in the blood and scab. Oh the joys of being a kid! She kept trying to get her scraped knee into her mouth after that!