And now comes talking!

Yes, Gretta is talking now too! Or at least I think so... :) She is saying Mamamama in a precious little gravely voice! She usually does it at random times or while she is crawling, sometimes when she wants a bite of food... but always excited to see the reaction it gets! I also failed to mention that she has been open-handed pointing for a couple weeks now- where Emma Kate held her hand up, palm out, to point to things, Gretta uses her hand palm-up, which makes it looks like she's saying "seriously though, what IS that?" It is really cute, and I can't ever seem to get a picture of it! She is loving to blow raspberries on bare skin- usually knees and shoulders... and only occasionally does she give a little pinch with her teeth- OUCH! She thinks it is hilarious... She is eating well, pretty much eating along with us- we put our food into the little food mill and it makes it a good texture for her to eat. Certainly not exposing her to everything yet, but she's pretty well accepting of most things so far.

Emma Kate has progressed to using the big potty now, with the little seat from her potty chair on top so she doesn't fall in... it is so wonderful! Part of the selling points was that all she had to do was FLUSH IT DOWN!!! No more cleaning out the little pot each time! It makes it so much faster, and she is really excited about it! Accidents have been very few and far between. We even used a big potty at a restaurant! It's much easier to carry the little seat with us instead of the entire potty setup.

Emma Kate accompanied me to the dentist today (long overdue since our winter ordeal...) and sat on my lap while I got my cleaning. She was a little uneasy at first, but the hygenist (who happens to be the wife of one of the dairy clients at my old job) was really open and friendly with her, and she soon warmed up. She even got up close to see her polishing my teeth and thought the sound was funny! She has been a really good girl lately, and we have been enjoying some incredibly mild weather for mid-August!

We'll be heading to the beach later this week to visit with family and a couple friends from Vet school, it will be a packed house full of little ones!!

Here are just a few pictures... the camera hasn't been out in action much lately... I have a few videos I wanted to post, but I keep getting error messages from blogspot... hope to figure it out soon.

Here the girls are helping Daddy get snow pea seeds hulled to saved for next year's garden

And here is silly Emma Kate- she was taking her shirt off and it was just a little snug coming over her head, so I positioned it and told her she had blue hair! (Must have been all those blueberries she ate!) She kept it like that for a while afterwards, and then later tried to do it with another shirt that didn't work quite as well, but she still kept it like that.