Happy Birthday V (part 2 of 2)

Picking up where we left off...

So, I decided to call upon my seldom used creative side and do an art project to hang up at V’s party.

After much printing/cutting/trying to keep Violet from stealing the pictures, here is my final project:

In case you couldn’t tell, I free-handed the cutting of the pink V. And I totally misjudged the spacing, which is why the top right corner is all squished and then there is more space between them! Oops! =)

So after the cake-eating fiasco, we had to change outfits, and then it was time for presents.

Here’s V, sitting in her chair, more interested in eating her cheeto-thingy than opening her present.


So, V was not very interested in opening her presents at all. She was, however, interested in the music playing Sleeping Beauty card from my parents.

That's her cousin Kate watching her.

And here she is still playing with the card while her cousins try to open her gift (my mom wrapped it really good for a one-year old's party!).

Ignore me in the background, not quite sure what I was doing!

I wonder what Violet is looking at while wearing her superly cute hat from this website...


Oh, she's watching her cousins explore her new toy!

From left to right, that's Aunt Tiffany watching her little boy Noah sitting on the princess toy, Kate and Anthony in the background, Natalia checking out the princesses, and my dad and sister Aileen chilling on the couch.

And here she is a few nights later, when I let her have her picture collaged V, checking it out.


She just loved looking at the pictures of herself. Some of them she found quite funny!


About 5 minutes after these pics were taken, she figured out how to rip the pictures off and that was the death of the V! Funny how stuff like that takes so much longer to create than destroy!

Thanks for a great birthday party everyone! She really likes her new toys!

Happy Birthday V (part 1 of 2)

Saturday July 18th, we had Violet's first birthday party. It was a small party with only our families.

Of course we had to go buy a cute birthday outfit (which just so happened to match one of her super-cute bows)!




Here she is walking between John and me. Isn't that outfit the cutest?!


And here she is pushing the walker toy around.


What a big girl! Seriously, she is SOOOO close to walking by herself! She stands up in the middle of the floor and takes a few steps, falls down, stands back up and takes a few more! I'm SO close to being in trouble! =)

Back to the party...after everyone ate some lunch, it was cake time!

Once she's old enough to care, we'll probably get a "themed" cake!


So, V does not like trying new things. Here's John forcing her to eat some of the icing.


"Please don't make me eat anymore of that nasty stuff, I hate it!"


So yeah, V's first go at cake was unsuccessful. I do believe after a few more tastes, she'll start to like it though. Pretty much everything she tries for the first time she doesn't like (except yogurt, which we tried last night and she loved it!).

Part 2 will cover the presents (and my art project)!

Oh, and if you're interested, I started another blog for all my randomness (which I'm full of!), so check it out if you want!

A Sweet Treat

I'm working on a birthday party post, but I don't have all the pics for it yet (doofball me forgot to take pics while Violet had her first taste of cake!).

So in the meantime, here's some pics from a few weeks back that I intended on posting but didn't get to before her birthday came!

So, one day, I come home and there's a ginormous cookie (chocolate chip, yum-o!) on the counter. I don't remember where it came from...if we bought it somewhere or what...I just remember it being there.

Anyways, John decided to see what would happen if he gave Violet the cookie.

"What happened?," Says you...

THIS!


Yup, that's right. She was shoving that cookie into her mouth!


"Look ma, no hands!"


And now she's trying to take a bite out of the cookie.


Shortly after that picture was taken, she bit off a HUGE chunk and I had to go take some of it away from her. But she did still get to eat a few little pieces of cookie. (See mom, told you we would let her have sugar eventually! Just not everyday, I don't want to chase a sugar-buzzed baby!)

If there were ever any questions, she's definitely my little girl, judging by the way she loved that cookie!

Hmm, I wonder if she liked her cake as much as the cookie...I guess you'll just have to wait to find out! =)

Happy 1st Birthday!

Happy 1st birthday Violet!

We had a party for her yesterday, pics to come soon from that!

I can't believe it's already been a year!!!

Swimming at Grandma's

We took Violet swimming at John's parents house again and this time we got some cute pictures...and the water wasn't freezing, so it was much more enjoyable! Violet played with her green rubber ducky (she loves her rubber duckies!) and sat in her float just chilling!

For about the first five minutes, she kept trying to take off her hat! She doesn't really like hats, but this one is strapped on under the chin so she gave up on pulling it off!

"It's a little bright mom, and I don't like my hat, but I've got my ducky so I'm okay..."


"Oh, that's much better, now I can have some fun!"


"Oh, thanks mom! My ducky was floating away but you saved it!"


"Hmmm, I'm not so sure about this now that I'm not in my floaty...but I do have my duck so it can't be too bad!"


"Can I take my hat off yet?"