Happy 1st Birthday Violet!

Happy first birthday Violet!

How quickly this year has flown!  I can hardly remember you as a little baby.  You are loved!

Lunch with friends

Violet naps twice a day (usually morning and mid-afternoon) and she goes to bed early--about 6 p.m.  So in order to maintain a social life, I've become a "lady who lunches".  This week I met up with some good friends Renee and Nichole.  The restaurant wasn't too kid-friendly ("no strollers allowed in the restaurant miss") but at least they had high chairs.  I don't think I'll be able to lunch much more often.  Violet doesn't really want to sit still for longer than 20-30 minutes anymore.  After that she starts to lose it!

Antsy Violet crawling across the table

Happy New Year!

Violet starts the new year as a bipedal!

She seems to walk like a zombie to me.

Violet's First Christmas

Today was Violet's first Christmas and suffice to say she scored the loot.  She spent it with her grandparents and us of course--her Aunts/uncles were out of town.  It was past her nap time so it was a race to get the gifts open before a meltdown.

She got My Pal Violet from her nanny Faby.

Aunt Deanna gave her a cool wheelie bug.

 

Eric hand made Violet some boots.

Toddler music band?  What was I thinking?

Glow rubber ducky

Up next, Violet turns one.  I really can't believe it.

Hanukkah

Lucky Violet gets to celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas.  Hanukkah started two nights ago and I lit the candles for the first time in 25 years while Violet munched on Cheerios.

Next week she'll get even more gifts at Christmas.  What a lucky kid!

11 Months!

Violet turned 11 months old yesterday.  It's hard to believe in one month she will be a year old--no longer considered a baby, she'll officially be a toddler.  She is changing so much.  She is super close to walking and can take up to four steps on her own.   She started saying Daddy, although she has no idea what it means.

Did you catch her attack at the end?

Here are some other new discoveries:

1.   While binkies previously materialized out of nowhere, she now is aware of the little container attached to mommy's bag that holds them.  She will paw at it incessantly until you give in.
2.  It's fun to smash cheerios with the TV remote.
3.  Buttons do something when you push them.
4.  She has  meowed to the cats for sometime but now she says "aroo" (like a howl) to the dogs.
5.  If you push really hard on a cheerio with your finger, it'll go flying off the table.
6. Mommy can be manipulated by crying and whining.  It doesn't have the same effect on daddy.

Aroo!

 

Holidays

The holidays are quickly approaching.  Violet got some pictures taken for the holidays recently.

She is so mobile now that it was hard to get her to sit still!  We were both exhausted afterwards.

This past weekend a college friend Cale came down to visit.  It was a babyfest as we hung out with two other friends and their four month old twins.

Lots of babies!

Marc, Vanessa, and the twins

Violet is getting smarter by the minute.  She's figured out how to push buttons and when you push them, something happens.  Unfortunately, she's also learned how to whine and cry to try to get what she wants.  I thought this didn't happen until toddlerhood?