Greta Language

Greta and Mama
Trying on Mama's bracelets! She did end up breaking one (not anything special...) and now enjoys picking up the beads and putting them into a container.
Up until the other day the only video Greta had seen and really watched is this Raffi concert from 1984 (Matthew and I could have been at it!) She loves Raffi's music, and so we checked out his concert from the library and she has now seen it several times over the course of a couple of months (we kept it for quite awhile...sorry library! good thing there are no late fees for children's materials!) The other day, though, I checked out the classic Disney Winnie the Pooh movie and turned it on for her while I made dinner. She was really into it! She didn't just sit and watch it, though--she played and jumped around (as you see in this photo) and sometimes stood close to the TV and stared at it. We are not wanting her to have much screen time AT ALL, but it sure was fun to see her so mesmerized by the images and the songs. The next day she requested it again, and called it "Boo Caca"! She has a Tigger image on her toothbrush, and after seeing Tigger ONE TIME in the movie she said "Hop Hop!" when she saw the Tigger toothbrush later that night. Now I can really understand how parents end up spoiling their children...it's so fun to see them enjoy something so much!

Over the past weekend we went to the 2 year birthday of a friend of ours. Greta had a blast there! They had rented out a big room with bouncy castles and cars and tons of balloons. Upon arriving Greta just raced over to the balloons and started taking them from children and saying "Hi". She ran and jumped around so much at this party--it was wonderful to see her mixing so well with the other children and "holding her own" just fine.

Some of you may know that Greta recently came up with a name for her Nanny Kathy (my mom) who she sees monthly: she calls her Nana Caca. Below are a couple of videos of Greta saying this...she mentions Nana Caca often and refers to random gray haired women as "Nana" or even "Nana Caca" from time to time. She loves Nanas!!