I’m a Big Sister!

Most of you should know that Gretta is going to be a big sister. She doesn’t seem to remember or maybe she doesn’t care, ha, ha I don’t know. Anytime it is brought up she does seem to be happy and excited about it. Which I am aware that once the baby is actually here this will probably not always be the case, but so far so good.
We are expecting the new addition to our family in June. We are very excited and everything is going just as expected. I've been pretty sick, which is the same as Gretta. It seems worse this time around not sure why that is, but hopefully only 3 1/2 weeks left of that. Our first appointment is November 19th so we should be able to hear the heartbeat, which I am really excited for Gretta to hear that. My favorite moment so far with Gretta and the pregnancy has been when she first wanted to “talk” to the baby. She walks up to me and says so sweetly to my belly, “I’m the boss” and walks away just as happy as she could be. It was priceless! We will definitely keep everyone posted on the baby and Gretta.

Gretta’s Style

Gretta is really starting to develop her own opinion about her appearance, what shoes she wears, shirts, pajamas. She loves to wear hats, crocs, purses and the latest one….lipstick! She found a tube of lipstick in my purse the other week. I came in to the kitchen and she has pink all around her mouth. Since then she will ask for her “lips”. So, here are a few pics of Gretta and her style.

I love her curls!

State Fair

We made our annual trip to the Indiana State Fair. It was a beautiful day. Gretta enjoyed seeing all the animals, but did not however, enjoy meeting Alpha Pig(a character from a show that we watch on PBS). We had to bail at the last minute in line right before we got up to get our picture with him. She got a little scared, but continues to talk about him and how she got to see him. Crazy kid! We had the pleasure to go with Sara & Noah which made the experience even more fun. We love hanging out with the Farnys!!

Birthday Party

So, the birthday party was tons of fun! Most of our friends and family were there, but we were missing a few important people. Some we got to celebrate with later. I had lots of fun decorating and had lots of help thanks to Carrie & Mom. So, here are the pics as promised. My Mom made the cake and I decorated it, it turned out really well. It was so much fun, I love birthday parties!

Brookville Camping Trip 2010

So, for the last several years we’ve been going camping in Brookville, IN with Gretta’s Grandma & Grandpa Welch, Paps & Grami (Gretta’s Great Grandparents) Uncle Caleb and us. We have a lot of fun together. This year I tried a couple new recipes with the Dutch oven, both took longer than expected but turned out to be really delicious, if I do say so myself :p

WOW...it has been too long!

So, it has been too long since I've blogged about Gretta. We are all doing great. She is growing like a weed. She changes all the time. Her vocabulary is unbelievable to me. People ask me all the time what does she say, if you can say it she can say it and she probably will, so be careful :)

She knows the alphabet song and can count to 13. She definetly knows the colors pink, blue and brown. We are still working on the rest. When in doubt she picks pink. Such a girl!

We had the Toy Story Birthday Party, it was a blast! I will try to post some pictures. We went to the State Fair last week with Sara & Noah which was really fun too. We've been camping in Brookville which was more fun with Gretta this year.

She is such a joy to have and I love watching her personality develop more each day. I love it!! Well, I gotta go, but hope to write more later.

Toy Story Mania!!

Yeah!! Toy Story 3 came out this weekend. Awesome movie, loved it!! We took Gretta of course. It was her first movie theater experience and she did great. Her reactions were priceless.

We started the weekend on Thursday hanging out with our good friends at the Weigand’s (Aubrey’s house). We had a big Toy Story event to build up to the big movie premiere on Friday. We had Toy Story cereal & cookies. We ordered pizza from Pizza Planet!! And we had the green alien juice from Toy Story 1 movie. It was so much fun. PLUS we viewed both Toy Story 1 & 2 (kind of). It was tons of fun. Our friends Matthew & Kelli got each of the girls a Toy Story flashlight, Gretta’s is the character Bullseye, she loves him. We already had character dolls, Buzz, Woody, Jessie, Bullseye, and now a Bullseye flashlight.

We also now have Toy Story pj’s and 3 Toy Story T-shirts. I LOVE IT!! And I must admit I have went a little crazy with it, but in my defense these things are EVERYWHERE and she gets so excited when she sees them. I can’t resist! And she has more Toy Story coming for her birthday!! Her birthday theme, of course, is going to be Toy Story. I can’t wait! We had a great time at the movie and I would highly recommend everyone go see it!

The picture of Gretta above is after the movie, she is holding all of her Toy Story dolls. So, cute!!

To infinity & beyond!!