Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Meeting Santa
Suffice it to say, meeting Santa for the first time was traumatic for Violet. We couldn't help but giggle a little.
She seemed to do fine until she realized she was sitting on a strange person's lap.
Here's the finished product:
Lucky Violet will get Christmas and Hanukkah gifts.
Grandma babysat a bunch this month which went great as long as I wasn't around. If it were up to Violet, she would never leave my arms.
Violet is super mobile now. She is very agile with her cruising. She will even stand on top of our laps if we're sitting and she can balance very well. She's doing well with her finger foods--she's obsessed with those gross canned cut green beans and wagon wheel pasta. She continues to want nothing to do with baby food and wants only to feed herself.
She seemed to do fine until she realized she was sitting on a strange person's lap.
Here's the finished product:
Lucky Violet will get Christmas and Hanukkah gifts.
Grandma babysat a bunch this month which went great as long as I wasn't around. If it were up to Violet, she would never leave my arms.
Violet is super mobile now. She is very agile with her cruising. She will even stand on top of our laps if we're sitting and she can balance very well. She's doing well with her finger foods--she's obsessed with those gross canned cut green beans and wagon wheel pasta. She continues to want nothing to do with baby food and wants only to feed herself.
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| All sacked out! |
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Violet's first Halloween! She slept through most of it. I sleep deprived her in the early afternoon, pushing her nap later in hopes that she'd stay up later than 6 p.m. We made it until about 6:45 but she was pretty unhappy about it.
She was happier at a daytime Halloween party last week.
In terms of what's new--it's been challenging recently trying to get Violet to eat solids. Miss Independent refuses to be fed by a spoon currently, so we've given up on purees and have been trying various finger foods. She eats a really small amount before she starts tossing everything on the floor (to the delight of the dogs). Poor Dakota passed away a few weeks too soon. She would have been in hog heaven with all the food being tossed around. I keep thinking Violet is going to be 25 and still just drinking from a bottle but I'm sure she'll start to eat solids at some point.
We take her to the park every day (and Eric takes her usually twice a day). She just loves it.
And here she is with Daddy looking cute.
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| I call this one "grumpy Halloween" |
In terms of what's new--it's been challenging recently trying to get Violet to eat solids. Miss Independent refuses to be fed by a spoon currently, so we've given up on purees and have been trying various finger foods. She eats a really small amount before she starts tossing everything on the floor (to the delight of the dogs). Poor Dakota passed away a few weeks too soon. She would have been in hog heaven with all the food being tossed around. I keep thinking Violet is going to be 25 and still just drinking from a bottle but I'm sure she'll start to eat solids at some point.
We take her to the park every day (and Eric takes her usually twice a day). She just loves it.
And here she is with Daddy looking cute.
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| Being silly with daddy |
Monday, October 24, 2011
Not an Orange
Violet went to a birthday party today. Let's be honest--she's too young to party with the big kids. It's all about the party dress. Before Violet was born, I bought a bunch of pretty dresses for her. Never being a mom before, I didn't realize how incredibly impractical dresses are. The buttons are a pain, she gets all caught up in them when she crawls, and they have food or various other organic material on them within hours. So Violet has a closet full of dresses that don't get worn. Enter the birthday party for her 3 year old twin friends. She can't eat the cake or play much with the other kids, but she can show up in style.
Violet stood up for the first time today without pulling up in the ball room today. She only lasted a few seconds but she did it twice. It was pretty cool to see. She also is completely refusing to be spoon fed and wants to feed herself. She wants nothing to do with all the homemade baby food purees in the freezer mom and dad made for her.
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| Looking very serious here |
Violet stood up for the first time today without pulling up in the ball room today. She only lasted a few seconds but she did it twice. It was pretty cool to see. She also is completely refusing to be spoon fed and wants to feed herself. She wants nothing to do with all the homemade baby food purees in the freezer mom and dad made for her.
I leave you with this one comment about the picture below. That is not an orange.
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