Play Time

Violet and I love to play together. She'll play with just about anything she finds. A few months ago, we went to the mall (to buy sunglasses) and the sunglass kiosk was right across from the Disney store. John got bored of me trying on fifteen thousand pairs of sunglasses, so he and Violet went shopping. So, after I found a pair I liked, I joined them. We bought V three things: a Minnie Mouse themed Razr phone, a princess baseball, and a fairy towel that you put in water and it grows. Her phone looks just like a real Razr, except it's covered in Minnie Mouse. Besides that, it could easily be confused for a real one!

Here she is playing with her baseball. She really likes to look at (and talk to) the pictures of the princesses on it.


And another one, although you can't see the baseball in this one. But you can see her two bottom teeth!


So, another thing she loves playing with is the phone book. I know I've blogged about that before on here, but I got some really good pictures of her playing with it again and they're just too cute not to share.

Here she is, post-destruction. My caption for this picture would be: "Well, that was fun. What now?"



"Yes mommy, I know I have a WHOLE bunch of toys behind me in my basket, but the phone book is just so much more fun!"

If you look at her hands and face, it's like she really is explaining it to me!

"Rwarrrr, I'm a monster! I'm coming to get you!"


Recently, our play time games have expanded to include dominoes. I build stacks of dominoes and she knocks them over. I am very upset and this and she thinks it's hilarious! I don't yet have any pictures of us playing dominoes yet, but I did try to take some video the other night. If it turned out good, I'll post it later.

Good Morning!

Most mornings, Violet wakes up in a really good mood. We know she's awake because we can hear her over the monitor talking in her crib. One such day, I went to get her out of bed and she was looking so darn cute I had to go grab my camera.

This is what I saw:

She was just standing there, looking around. Too cute.

So, by this point, Violet was probably thinking "Come on mom, pick me up already!" After all, I had opened her door to get her, then turned around to go get the camera, then came back and started taking pics. She decided to show me how ready she was to get out of bed:

"Let's go mom! I'm ready for breakfast!" Hehehe.

Oh, and as a side-note, you may have noticed that her bedroom walls are painted purple. This was not on purpose! Once we knew we were having a girl, we decided on the paint color for her room. We did not settle on a name for her until a few weeks later, after her room was already painted. Just wanted to clear that one up! =)

Raffle!

So this post is to tell you about a raffle that Rachel is doing...by going to her site, it tells you how to enter to win three (3!) double layered bows and a headband from her friend Sarah's Etsy shop, The Princess & Me Bowtique, which has a ton of really cute bows for little girls!

I'm trying to win some for Miss Violet!

Once I upload all my pics off my camera, I'll have a new post on here...promise! =)

Daddy's Little Girl

So, now that she can crawl, Violet is obsessed with following us around, trying to do what we do. She really likes things she can play with and push buttons on, such as the television remote. She also really likes our iPhones. So in tune with that, we gave her an x-box controller the other night. She originally was just sitting on Daddy's lap, playing with him but she kept trying to get the buttons so we gave her one of her own.

Here she is playing with her controller while John plays his video game.


And this picture I just love because they both look like they're concentrating really hard at playing their games.


Just couldn't resist the photo-op! They were too cute!

Video update: John uploaded all our videos off the camcorder (if that's what they're still called) and onto our computer. I've sifted through them and picked out the ones I want to post as a summary of her life so far. Now all I have to do is see if I can edit them to just post the pieces I want, instead of the 5 minute long video of which I only need 1 minute. So hopefully I'll get them up here soon!

Reality Check

Thursday night, April 30th, started out like any other night. I got home from work and started our evening routine, if you would call it that. Everything was normal until bedtime. Violet does not like bedtime and usually will not go to sleep without a fight. However, for some reason, she fell asleep eating her bedtime bottle. I considered this a blessing, as this is how I used to put her to sleep...so much easier! So then I went and laid her in her bed and thought I had the rest of the night free!

Well, probably an hour later, Violet woke up crying. I go into her room to see what the problem is and she's standing in the corner of her bed! Needless to say, I freaked out. I immediately grabbed her and called John into her room to lower her mattress to the lowest setting (it was still on the highest setting). We had never seen her pull herself up to standing before so it was a total shock!

That was my first reality check that we need to start baby-proofing the house.

You see, Violet started crawling (finally!) on April 22nd.

And then on Saturday, April 25th, she sat up in her crib. When I woke up, I heard her talking to herself and went to get her. This is what I found.




That's right, my little girl was looking out her crib like she was in a prison cell! She was just calmly sitting there, kicking her legs through the rails trying to look over the top to figure out her next move, I suppose.

But even with the crawling and the sitting up in her bed, reality hadn't quite sunk in.

The third sign it was time to baby-proof that I'd been ignoring for quite some time is the fact that Violet likes to stick her finger into little holes exploring. You see, she has this little xylophone toy that she likes to turn upside-down and poke her fingers into the screw holes.

While I knew this would one day present a problem, I wasn't too worried because she wasn't yet crawling. So therefore, she couldn't stick her tiny fingers into the outlet holes.

Now is obviously an entirely different story.

But no, this point was not driven into my head until we found her standing in her bed.

I now am printing out baby-proofing your house checklists to make sure I don't forget anything. The first priority (lowering her bed) is already done. Next is installing outlet covers on all the outlets in our house. Third priority, not quite sure yet. I'm guessing cabinet and drawer locks. For normal people with babies, it would be picking up all the little things babies can put into their mouths. But Violet doesn't put things into her mouth yet. She often will pick up a quarter or other coin and just play with it. One day this will probably change, but for now, we're safe in that context.

So there is the story of how I got a reality check the other day. While I'm sure I'll have many more, that one sure did freak me out!