Take Me Out to the Ballgame

So Greta went to her first game, which also happened to be Reds Opening Day, which is very much a Cincinnati Holiday.



I was very excited to take Greta to her first game. I am sure that next year will be more fun as she'll have some idea that there's a field and people are on it... might not understand baseball yet, but she'll at least know there's a field.



First we had swung by Fountain Square to drop in on the Give Back Cincinnati party, and grab some lunch at Pot Belly's...


Then it was off to the game, after waiting out the rain shower for a little bit... Greta enjoyed the fan zone, and has an uncanny resemblance to Lou Pinella


Greta found baseball to be very relaxing!


She put on the rally cap, but it was to no avail!


And one last family portrait before heading out to go home and take a nap

Roller Baby

Greta just started doing this the other day.. pretty much whenever I hold her or lay on the couch with her, she immediately rolls one way and then the other. Pretty funny so far...we'll see how funny it is in four months when she's still doing it :)

This is Greta's Favorite New Game with Papa

mirror, mirror

saturdays are great fun! greta had a bath, walked to the bagel shop with her papa, ate, and then napped for almost 3 hours! (not greta's typical nap by any means). after she woke up, she ate again and then we played in her room for a while. we played together but then she seemed to be getting bored of me, so i set her in front of this mirror in her room. she played by herself for quite a while. i kept sneaking back in to watch her play. mirrors are quite fun.....

"and so then he said...."

here is greta recapping today's playdate for me. as you can tell, she was giving me an earful, sharing all the gossip she gathered from miles, ella, and gabby. on the way home from the playdate we made an obligatory stop at target. and i picked up some rubberbands for greta. yes, my 5 month old needs rubberbands. check her pigtails out in the photo. between the new hairdo and the way she's talking to me, doesn't it look like she's about to demand the car keys or introduce us to her new boyfriend? they grow up so fast.....

Someone Get Me A Haircut

let's go muskies!!!

so tonight xavier plays west virginia (BOO! bob huggins) in the sweet sixteen. xavier is mommy's alma mater, so of course greta will be rooting the musketeers to victory. thanks to megan for this adorable tshirt so that greta can cheer in style. some of you may be wondering how joe's daughter can be allowed to wear xavier gear, and it's simple. first of all, uc did not even make the tournament this year so we can not with good conscience allow greta to wear the red and black. and second of all, joe is at work which means i can dress greta in whatever i want. let's go x!!

i love my taggie

so i've mentioned before that greta likes to chew on fabric. we assume that all this gumming and chewing is part of the teething process, and have offered her many different "teethers" to help soothe her gums. greta, however, wants no part of these plastic things to chew on. she prefers fabric. and while this sort of grosses me out to think of chewing on fabric, i thought i would buy greta a taggie and see what she thought of it. (taggie = a piece of fabric with ribbon loops around the edges). um....she loves it. she whined at me when i took it from her to change her diaper. in the pictures you can see her going at it like it's a piece of meat.