PLEASE DON'T PEE HERE.

After our big day yesterday we went out to dinner to celebrate Chris's 33rd birthday and then came home and Violet made a snow cake.
We had some snow tuesday night and last night I brought some in to let Violet play with it. She wasn't quite sure what to do with it. I think the dogs were more excited about it than she was. Willow loves snow. Especially if you make snow balls and throw them for her. She goes crazy.

SANTA #2

Much better this time around.
We had a big day today. All of us had our eyes checked. Violet's eyes are great. Our eye Dr. offers the InfantSEE program. Our pediatrician recommended it and it's free for 6mon-12mon olds. She did great and didn't fuss once. I was expecting her to be fussy when they dilated her eyes but she was fine. I on the other had hate having that done. I got such a bad headache I got sick to my stomach and had to take a nap.
After everyones nap we decide to go see the santa at OP Mall. A much better set up. I love this photo. We had them take photos too, but the ones I took turned out so much better. I'm not a super fan of the staged, looking at the camera photos. This is a great candid shot!

WARM & TOASTY

It is officially time to haul out the heavy duty coat and hat. I bought this coat last February for $5. It was a $35 OshKosh coat I found at BabysRUs. Love a deal and figured it was only $5 so if it didn't fit her when the time came, I wasn't out a whole lot.
Luckily she doesn't fight putting it on and doesn't have a problem with hats. She's still not sure about the mittens. She just tries to eat them.

SANTA

We heard that Santa and his reindeer where going to be at Heartland Nursery yesterday so we decided to check it out. No smiles out of Violet. She didn't warm up till we were about to leave, as you can tell from the second to last photo. She looks so smug.

FEAST OF ST.NICK

Today is the Feast of St.Nick. And for those who think I'm making it up go here. Violet got a stuffed squirrel and little car in her stocking from St.Nick(us) as well as some books from St.Nick (Grandma F).



Of course she enjoyed the paper more.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

I won't delete the last post so here's a new one.
I didn't manipulate this photo. Johns head was just big.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

TIME OUT MAGAZINE

Just found out from the guys at Luv-able & Hug-able that my birdie Sweetie made it into Time Out NewYork magazine and online.

OUR STUFF

LEPREPOLLO

That's Chickenhare in Italian. So if you're in Italy stop by any liberia and pick up a copy.
LUV-ABLE & HUG-ABLE

The Luv-able & Hug-able show opens this Friday at Gallery Hanahou in New York. There are tons of awesome people participating. There is a pre-sale from Dec 1-4. You can see my work plus everyone elses that is available.

9 MONTH PHOTOS

Weren't really planning on getting a photo of her and I but we loved this photo.

I finally talked Chris into taking a family photo. Tell him he looks good.

9 MONTH CHECKUP

No shots....yeah! Violets went in for her 9 month checkup. She weighs 20 lbs which puts her at 70%. Her head is 45.3 cm putting her at 85%. And she is 29 1/2" tall putting her at 97%. That's one tall baby! We were also given the ok to feed her just about anything off the table and we should back off the jar foods. Eggs are ok too. I was hoping we'd get the ok to start introducing whole milk around 10 or 11 months but he was firm with 12 months. So I guess we'll finish up what baby food we have and move onto more table foods.

THANKSGIVING

mmmmm......turkey dinner in a jar!

FUN WITH JACKSON'S TOYS

Couldn't get enough of this car all weekend. Violet could only figure out how to go backwards, not forwards. Pretty good for someone who won't crawl.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Chris age 8. Yes...Transformers.

BUSY ZOO