I made this post several weeks ago and didn’t post it right away so I ended up forgetting about it. I think I was waiting to add pictures. Anyway, I will go ahead and post it like it is.
Greta is a talker. I love how expressive she is and how often she can tell me what she wants. She is also really starting to use her imagination. We have to rescue her stuffed animals at least once a day. It usually starts with Greta saying “oh no, teddy bear far away.” Then, “teddy bear’s in trouble, help teddy bear.” Then after we save teddy bear she says “we did it, we help teddy bear.” Usually the next day its doggy or some other poor animal who has gotten into trouble. I think that’s a pretty good imagination for almost 19 months old. When she’s done something good she will say “awesome”. Its funny to hear in her baby voice.
She also loves to go looking for mommy and daddy around the house. I hear “oh no daddy’s missing” a lot. Then she is very excited to go and find daddy. She was saying this at midnight last night. Very loudly and pretty upset. It took a minute to decide if she was awake or talking in her sleep. “Oh no, Daddy missing. Oh no, Momma missing.” Leo had to go help her back to sleep. When he did she told him in a pitiful voice “I’m sleepy”. Awwww how sweet.
Yesterday, Greta pulled kitty up by her tail. Actually lifted her off the ground by her tail! Poor kitty! So of course kitty ran away pretty quickly. Greta became so upset. She was crying actual tears and saying “oh no, I hurt kitty” over and over. It was kinda pitiful and took a while to calm Greta down. I felt bad for Greta and kitty. We are hopeful that Greta will remember this and start being nicer to kitty.
Greta is counting everything now. It’s sweet to hear. She can count to 14! Pretty good for almost 19 months I think. She has a great memory and is starting to tell us what her books say. I guess we have read them a lot. It is neat to see how much she is learning and remembering. Now that her carseat is facing forward she likes to point out red and green lights and diamond and rectangle shaped signs. She isn’t always right, of course but she’s trying!
Greta demands to go outside everyday! She loves to be in the backyard, and since we don’t know how much longer the weather will be nice we are outside a lot. Greta believes it is her full time job to move the dirt from one flower pot to another. Every time we go outside the one thing I know is Greta will have dirt from head to toe and need a bath afterwards. She has a great time playing in the yard.
She plays by herself really well. Which is usually really nice. She ran off one day this week and I didn’t hear her for a while so I was looking around and looking and looking for her. I was starting to panic. Our house is small so it only takes a minute to look in all the rooms. So then I started checking all the outside doors. That’s when I found her standing so still behind the curtains in our room just looking out at the backyard. I guess she didn’t feel there was enough panic in my voice to respond to me calling for her!
Greta has also given us a taste of the terrible twos! We have had a few screaming fits where Greta is uncontrollably screaming and rolling around on the floor. We have no idea what to do when these happen. I am dreading the day this happens at the grocery store or when we are out somewhere!
Thats a little of what Greta is doing now. I am really enjoying this stage in her life. She is a lot of fun right now.
She is a smart, very talkative and generally happy girl!
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Greta really wanted to try a lemon… Begged and begged.. so I gave her one.
She loved it!
Ate it up… 
Will have to hide the lemons from now on..
She seemed to like them
