Well, Greg has officially been released back to full duty at work! He had a recheck with the neurosurgeon Wednesday and apparently everything looks good! Today is his first day back at his regular shift, which means that it's my first day (again) of having the girls on my own for 24 hours... we'll get the hang of it again soon, I'm sure... :) The girls and I had a great day, spent nearly every waking minute outside, and even had Gretta take an impromptu nap in the tie-on wrap this morning. Guess all that jostling around is pretty soothing. Gretta is officially going from the hands and knees position to a sitting position now- she has done it several times successfully, and so far she's managed to avoid hitting her head on the floor when she topples over eventually! It's become so pointless to put a blanket down for her- she gets around so well that she's never on the blanket- apparently it's more fun on the bare floor! Emma Kate's favorite thing right now is playing with all the baby clothes that Gretta has outgrown- she sorts through them and makes the neatest piles... She even separates out the hats and the bibs in their own little piles! She made quite the towering stack of clothes yesterday... pretty impressive!

In all our difficulties getting logged in to post updates, I overlooked Gretta's 6mo doctor's visit, which was last week. She weighed in at 16lbs 3oz and is in roughly the 75th percentile for weight, height, and head circumference. So, apparently pretty well-proportioned. The doctor was pretty impressed with her near-crawling, and was glad to know that Emma Kate has been so discriminating with what toys she offers Gretta... She did get a couple of vaccines, and luckily she only cried for a minute or two! So sad... :)