Girls weekend! or Bye Bye Daddy!

Well, Greta and I are flyin' solo for a few weeks. Ty has safely landed in Sierra Leone, leaving Gboo and I here in MN for LOTS of quality time together. So far its been just fine. To kick off the girlie QT, Grandma Marmo took Greta and I down to scenic Mt Vernon to spend an evening with Aunt Jayne. We got to tour Cornell College's campus with our own lovely tour guide and I think she had a pretty good time showing off her niece. From the campus to the cornfields, Greta had quite the Iowa experience. Don't you think Gboo and Jayne favor? We think that's why Aunt Jayne thinks Greta is so cute! Jayne was wowed by Greta's crawling and chatting and hopefully we've given Jayne some incentive to come home for Thanksgiving.

Skiver eater

A week after the Halloween fun, we met the Christiansen family over at Aunt Ev's new home for a Aebelskiver party. Greta- to her delight- got to sample her first skiver. Basically she dove face first into the skiver....a couple of times. While she was sampling Danish delicacies, she thought she'd try out the Danish flag too..... for the record, she voted for the skiver! What a great family day!

A little more BOO...

We wanted to include Greta's trick or treating excursion....Grandpa Jay stopped by (before dressing up like a cat...snicker snicker) and then we went trick or treating with Auntie Keb over at Grandma Marmo's house. Enjoy!

BOO!

Hello faithful remnant and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We had a great weekend....Bamagramps & Bamagramma came to visit. We went all over MN's cities and countryside in an effort to convince G's grandparents that MN is not THAT cold and pretty cool... We went downtown and visited the sculpture garden, the new Guthrie, and walked down by the river. To get some country flare we headed out for an apple orchard (honeycrisp apples....YUMM....and we discovered yesterday that they are the new MN state fruit...we approve) that had some fun animals, punkins, and of course apples. What vacation would be complete without a round of golf for the guys and shopping for the ladies (yes, G-boo is a very good shopper if she's had a good nap), so we managed to work that in too. Ty preached on Sunday so we ended the weekend at church then dropped Bamagramma & Bamagramps off at the airport. We drove straight out to Tyler's aunt Ruth's house and ate dinner with many of the Christiansen clan. SHEW! What fun!

For Halloween we have some sea creatures in our house....Greta is an octopus & Jersey is a lobster. Fun-ny. G-boo seems to be in the holiday spirit and doesn't mind crawling about in her costume.....Jerz, on the other hand, appears to hate us. We'll have to fill him full of treats today to make him a willing participant tonight. We tried on our costumes for the Bamagrandparents & Grandpa Jay on Sunday, but we head to "trick or treat" at Grandma Marmo's tonight so she can see the Boo in all her finest. Enjoy our pictures and have a spooky day!

Autumn Update

Well, there's not alot of news to report, actually. Momma & Greta are on their 2nd colds for the season. Yay. But otherwise, we're doing well and having fun. I'm attatching a few recent pictures. Grandpa Jay did a little baby sitting for us and enjoyed feeding Boo Boo her blended chicken "looks like fancy feast" dinner... A few pictures of Greta standing...again. And here's a photo or 2 from our trip to the apple orchard with some church folk. Stay tuned: Bamagramma & Bamagramps arrive on Thursday for a long weekend with us AND we'll post some fun Halloween pictures (yes, Greta & Jersey will both be in costume!).

PS Florence Face is back (as you can see above)...is it a coincidence that it has reappeared right before Bamagramma comes to visit??

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the cutest babe of all?

Part of our nightly bath time ritual with G-boo has been to indulge her blossoming interest in herself. In particular, we've been allowing her to sit in front of the bathroom mirror and talk to herself. Recently these interactions have taken on new humor as our budding narcissist now kisses herself in the mirror. We captured it tonight....enjoy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JfY1N7J4jT8

Nine is so fine....

So a few things have happened since our last post.

Firstly...my brother's father in law passed away suddenly at the end of September. Greta and I flew down for Joe's funeral and afterwards we stayed in Florence for a week. The celebration of Joe's life was both difficult and meaningful. We were honored to pay our respects to such a well-respected and well-loved man, but it was hard to see our family in such pain. Cousin Evelyn's presence definitely gave great comfort and happiness to her family. We did manage to take a picture or two of the cousins together in which it appears Greta-boo is terrorizing Evelyn already. Sigh. The week with Bamagrandpa & Bamagramma was good. They enjoyed watching her crawl in person & agreed with Greta's momma that she is definitely a busy girl!

Now that we are back in MN, things are starting to get back to normal. Greta is really getting around and getting into everything. Even daddy's guitar & the oven door seem like interesting playtoys to G-boo!

We just got back from Greta's 9 month appointment and her stats are as follows:

height: 28 1/4 inches (80th percentile)

head circumference: 44.8 cm (75th percentile)

weight: 18 lbs 14 oz (60th percentile)

I was shocked...I thought for sure our peanut was going to be maintaining her 80th percentile weight stat and be well over 20 lbs. The Doctor said this was normal and said that I should be grateful that she's got long & lean genes: thank you to the Morse/Christiansen ancestors! Dr Busch was very impressed that Greta is pulling up and cruising about and thinks she will be walking very soon. Ahh....we've always known she's advanced! To top off our visit, Greta decided that filling 4 diapers with poo might be just the right way to really show off for Dr Busch. Awesome. Enjoy these pics of our growing girl!