Two and a Half!

It's official: Greta is now two and a half years old!!! She is really growing up fast.
The other day while waiting for a bus ride to a fun gymnastics drop-in program, Greta noticed some fancy beaded necklaces. These necklaces were part of a Halloween display at a thrift shop. The next day I went and got her a few dress up accessories there and she was very excited to put her new fancy things on after quiet time! Here she is all sheeky-shocky (supposedly this is what they say in Brazil, where my dad and grandparents lived for a number of years, and our MacDonald family always used to say it growing up--now Greta says it very well too!)
Matthew approved of everything but the shoes :-) She loves to walk noisily around the house in them, though.
Sheeky-Shocky.
On her half birthday.
It's fun because Therese usually gets up from her nap a little later than Greta, so we have some one-on-one time together every day.
Matthew has been doing a LOT of "working on the railroad" (as Greta still calls it) lately. As a result Greta has experienced a serious Papa deficit! Here she is the other day trying to do some work with him. Fortunately today he reserved for her as a complete Papa Day! She is having a blast. They went out for a muffin this morning and now they're at the gymnastics place. It's nice and quiet around here with Therese napping for the time being!
From August to just last weekend there was a Farmer's Market in our neighborhood. I took the girls almost every Saturday. Here is a photo of them under the sign for it. Greta nearly always got a treat and danced around to the live music.
On our way home again after a busy time! We left a bit prematurely because Greta has developed a bee phobia (gee, I can't understand where she could've learned that...! ...um, I have a slight bee problem actually) With all the sweets at the farmer's market, and this time of year, the bees are out in full force lately!
Greta loves to climb around everywhere. Here she is climbing from the couch to the ottoman. She also likes to jump off of these things all the time too. She and I invented a new game where we run from the dining from and jump onto the bed saying "Woo woo woo woo woo!!!" It reminds me of being a kid and jumping on the bed :-) (I'm usually sore from it the next day...yikes!)
Climbing a bit too far up on the couch...the one rule with the couch is not climb on the top ledge of it! Sometimes she climbs up and immediately jumps down saying "But I jumped off!"...well the point is she's not supposed to get up there AT ALL! Sneaky girl :-)
We got another high chair seat recently, because Therese is starting more solids. The seat is a bit big for her, and Greta was happy to take the new one and let Therese use her old one. That's one great characteristic about Greta--even as a toddler she really is not possessive about her things much at all.
Greta usually just sits at the table with us in her booster seat, without the tray, but now that Therese is using a tray Greta wants to use one too. They look so cute together sitting side by side!
This is how I found Therese the other day, in the girls' room.
She is after something...
Hmmm...a train and a pink ring...
Success! The train was what she was after! It was way in the back behind other toys!

Such a smiley girl!!

Getting ready to really crawl any day now...but for the time being she gets around really efficiently.

Soon she will hit her first half birthday!!