When Mommy's Gone

What happens when mom leaves to go teach her class at Xavier and leaves Papa and Greta home alone with a case of High Life?

New Tricks and Acrobatics

Greta is full of all kinds of new tricks these last couple weeks. Most recently she has mastered laying down and then sitting back up. She first did this in her crib a week or so ago, and has been working hard on it ever since. Here is the result in a nice short 25 second clip, nice how Greta performs on request.

Puff Daddy

Greta loves her sweet potato puffs. These little A shaped delicacies are also a great learning tool for figuring out how to pick something up and eat it.

Just a couple days ago she literally had no clue, but tonight she did one at a time for about 15 in a row. Making the same growling noise when trying to pick it up, and then the same chatty/chewing noise as she gets it in her mouth.

Fun times....

sleeping beauty

greta is a pretty good sleeper. if you had told me a few months ago that she was going to be a good sleeper, i would have laughed so hard you might have thought i was a tad bit off my rocker. i think i was a tad bit off for a while, when greta was a couple months old and sleep was not her thing. but now we've got most of the kinks worked out, at least for the time being. sleep and greta are fast friends.

memorial day weekend

memorial day weekend is always a great weekend. it's one of those holidays i never get all worked up for, but it usually ends up being one of the best. this memorial day weekend was no exception. saturday was a busy day, as we left our house around 8:15am and didn't get home til it was time for bed. we got family pictures taken with joe's family on saturday morning, and then we spent some time at my parents house. we then went back to grandma and grandpa hansbauer's, and they watched greta while joe and i went to dinner and a movie. sunday we were busy around the house and greta and i tried out our new jogging stroller. we also went to the toy store and greta got to pick out some new toys and a new pool for the backyard! sunday night we headed to taste of cincinnati, where we met up with janet, brent, ella, and janet's family. we had some good food and did a lot of people watching. on monday joe spent some time working in the yard while greta and i hung out inside making baby food. we got to spend some good family time together just the three of us, and again took the jogging stroller out for a try.

greta and her bear

"monkey guy" might be feeling a little neglected lately, as greta has found a new stuffed animal that she enjoys spending time with. behold bear, who she likes to snuggle with, chew on, and roll around with. sometimes she also holds the bear out in front of her with both arms and looks at him and smiles at him. it's hilarious. when we hand bear to her she screams (loudly) and gets very excited. who knew stuffed animals could be this much fun.

papa look a like

some pictures of our sweet baby greta. does she look like joe, or what?