DING DING...ROUND TWO

The three of us celebrated Violet's birthday last night with pizza and a cupcake. This time around Violet dug in and shoved the cake in her mouth. Only Chris and I got to see this. But here's some pics we got of her shoving in the cake with two hands.

BIRTHDAY VIDEOS

FIRST BIRTHDAY!

It took Chris and I two hours to ice the cake.

The house was decked out in pink and orange.


The whole family came to celebrate. Some drove through a snow storm for 6 hours.



Violet blowing out her candle.

Getting ready for cake. We practiced for a week keeping her hat on her head. She did great and didn't try pulling it off once.

Adam and Thomas.

I didn't have to worry about taking Violet's dress off during cake time because I knew she wouldn't get messy. She did pick up some of it and eat it.

I guess we wore Thomas out.

Sugar high.

Bye-bye, thanks for coming, thanks for my gifts!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET, SWEET BABY!

Where has this year gone!

A YEAR OF PICTURES

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ONE YEAR PHOTO

Violet had her one year photos done today. This is the last of the monthly photos. I think I'll post a collage of all 12. It's amazing how much she has changed and grown.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Grandpa Grine

CAN I GO OUTSIDE

With the warm weather like we had today, we are totally ready for spring.

MY CUP

Now we can never confuse our cup from Violet's cup. Thanks Grandma F.

HOW MANY LUMPS DO YOU WANT?

OH... 3 or 4. Not really, just one will do.
Violet took her first tumble at school yesterday. She fell backwards and bumped her head. She has a bad habit of standing and holding onto to furniture, letting go and just falling backwards. She thinks it's a game. Well that's not a problem when she does it on carpet or we catch her. This time it was on linoleum. I guess she had quite the bump, but it was gone by the time we picked her up.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

This was Violet today at lunch. We started skipping the morning nap time because when she moves over to the next room at school she won't be getting one. So we've started it now to see how it goes. As a result lunch time was earlier and so was nap time. Today we barely made it through lunch.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Grandma Young

IT DOES A BODY GOOD

Violet is now drinking her milk. She's officially on whole milk now too. Last Tuesday we finished up the last bit of formula that we were adding to the milk. She was only on straight formula for 2 weeks. So it was nice not having to buy a ton of that stuff. In a year I think we bought only 7 cans. We also managed to drop all bottles except the bedtime bottle. Also, for the last week and a half she's been on table food at school too. No more making meals and having to pack them up everyday. She'll also feed herself if the food isn't messy. She doesn't like messy hands I guess.

Also... thanks John... I ate all your possibly salmonella contaminated boy scout peanut carmel popcorn.

DON'T BOTHER ME WHILE I'M COMPOSING!

Monday evening we had to stop by Walmart to pick up some medicine. They had Valentine's Day ballons marked down to $.25. We thought it might be fun for the evening so we got one. Violet did not like the balloon. In fact we had to cover it with a blanket in the car. We tried playing with it when we got home but we had the same reaction. So it stayed in the bathroom. Last night was a little better. The balloon could at least be in the same room she just wouldn't really look at it. Then this morning as I was putting her shoes on she decided she wanted to play with it. I guess she just needed to get used to it. As of last night we thought we were going to have to do away with balloons at her birthday. But it looks like it'll be ok.

COUNT DOWN TO B-DAY

I finished Violet's doll as well as the dress for Violet that matches her doll. She'll be wearing that for her birthday as well as for her pictures. This will be the last professional photos we do of her for a while. It's great having done them every month and seeing how much she's changed.

The flower trim on the dress was made by my friend Alyssa. She makes lace by tatting. Tatting is the art of making lace using one or more shuttles or using a shuttle and a ball.