10 months. Only 2 more months until she's smashing a cake. I can hardly believe it! Greta is crawling now! She finally decided that she would do it not too long after her doctor said that she may never crawl. She decided to do it and then within a week, she was crawling fast and crawling all the time! At first, she "lumbered" along, but quickly perfected her skills. She "extreme crawls" as I like to call it. She likes to crawl over everything, our legs, pillows, her sister, toys. And she loves trying to weave her way over the legs of our pedestal table and through the chairs. Nearly everytime she tries to shimmy through the chairs, it ends in tears. In the last month, Greta started to pull herself up at things, her favorite being the shoe baskets and Holly's bed. She also ocassionally do a bear crawl pose, usually when she's ticked about something. Greta can also sit herself up all by herself. If you say, "no" to Greta, she will drop her head to the floor and cry. She will drop her head to the floor when she's tired too. She's very sensitive, very tender. Even saying, "no" gently will bring tears. Which is a problem because sometimes Greta thinks it's funny when she spits her food out all over whomever is feeding her. Greta used to sleep through the night.... but she stopped. Greta is a Momma's girl big time! And most of the time, I love it. I love it when she crawls to me and then pulls herself up onto her knees and hangs on to my leg. She's so cute!
I made the girls Christmas dresses from some fabric that I've had for a while. I think they turned out pretty cute! Holly's nursery leader thought it was funny that Holly was wearing holly. It was really fun to make these dresses and to dress my girls up. Just don't look to close. I cut corners for sure!
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This year, we bought our tree from the Sea Scouts, who literally participate in Scouting on the Sea. So basically, a bunch of young teenage boys who are beginning to grow facial hair helped us pick out a Christmas tree in the middle of Palo Alto. We found the perfect one and had it delivered later that night after the girls were in bed. When Holly woke up in the morning, she was in full admiration. "Wow!" "Ay yike it," (I like it) and, "Cool" was what she said. We never have to remember to plug in our tree. Holly does it for us. She loves admiring it and she loves playing with the ornaments. We're in full Christmas adoration over here. This truly is the best time of the year. I love that Christmas brings my little family together for fun activities. Our family grows stronger every Christmas season! We feel extra blessed to have my Mom in town this week.
I made this dress for Greta from a pattern I also made inspired by this mini boden dress (which btw, if anyone ever finds in a second hand or thrift store, buy it!). I wish I had made the arm holes a little bigger but other than that, it's great. I love the colors in the fabric and the pattern of it. It's kind of perfect for a little girl named Greta.
In other little girl dress news, I finished Holly and Greta's Christmas dresses tonight! Yay! This week has been good for checking things off my list and it's only Tuesday!
"what do I do now?"
Greta's getting up on her knees and sometimes, she even stands. This is a photo of one of the first times she stood. She was screaming, totally panicked. I had to help her down after I took a couple photos. Oh Greta.
