FANCY

Violet's been officially walking for a week now!

STL ZOO

Stinky goats!


Jackson and Violet playing on some frongs in the Children's zoo.

Grrrrrr.

Jackson and Grandma on the carousel.

weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!



He really, really wanted me to take his picture.



We didn't even make it out of the parking lot before Violet fell asleep.

FLASH(WAY)BACK FRIDAYS

Violet's Gr.Gr. Grandparents Hall (Grine side)

FEEJEE MERMAIDS

I've been working on these for about a month and a half and they are finally all done.
Yeah! These guys are off to Schmancy Toys in Seattle. I literally finished them up last night. More info will be come about what they'll be doing there. I'm not a big fan of making duplicates but I was offered a wonderful opportunity. I felt a great sense of accomplishment seeing these all grouped together, tagged and ready to go. I felt good.

How cute are they all lined up like that. Of course Chris thought it looked like a mass grave of FeeJee Mermaids, with all the crossed eyes and some of the arms were crossed too. Yikes!

Close up of the tags. Clike HERE if you don't know what FeeJee Mermaids are.

ICE CREAM MAN

BIRTHDAY GOODIES

There's nothing like an icecream cake from Baskin Robbins. This was chocolate cake with mint chocolate chip icecream. Yum.

Here's my bday present. A new cabinet for my studio because I've officially run out of room to put all my fabric and stuffin' away in. Right now it's not exactly exciting looking but I'll be painting it. I'll post a pic of that later.

STOPPING TO SMELL THE FLOWERS

FLASH(WAY)BACK FRIDAYS

Violet's Gr.Grandparents Hall (Grine side)

DINNER DRAMA

This is what Violet looks like at dinner about 75% of the time. Fights every minute of it.

I CAN DO IT, THANKYOU

Applesauce is the one food we don't have to fight Violet to eat. She has it at just about every meal. So of course it's the first food she wants to feed herself. She keeps grabbing the spoon out of our hands when we feed her. So I'm taking that as a sign that maybe she wants to do it herself. She figured it out pretty quickly and managed to get most of it in her mouth. The white ring around her mouth is sourcream from her potato. Sourcream, another food she loves.

ALL DRY

Her feet are kind of supposed to be the leaves of the flower.

101.2

That was Violet's temp when we got the call from school to come pick her up. .2 degrees over what is allowed. We know it's because she has her first molar coming in. But that's the rule at school. In order for her to go back to school Chris had to go pick her up, take her to the Dr. where they confirmed it's her teeth and then write us a note so she can go back tomorrow. Not a cheap day. In fact she has two molars coming in and one of her front bottom laterals just popped out thursday. After all this Chris had to come back to work and pick me up. As a result Chris and I are now going to have to drive separately to work which will double our gas cost and maintenance costs. yeah.

So because her gums hurt I made her mashed cheesy potatoes with bacon, peas and sourcream for dinner. Then we had popsicles,I made yesterday, out on the deck. Her lunch today consisted of a chocolate malt Chris got her after her Dr's appointment.

I WILL NOT TOUCH THAT

Today we made a stepping stone. I was hoping to do this outside but it was cold and cloudy...


So we made it on the kitchen floor.


The minute her hand went into the cement she made a fist.


Then we tried it again and she started fussing.


So we did her feet instead.


Maybe later this summer we can try the hands again.

FLASH(WAY)BACK FRIDAYS

Gr.Gr.Grandparents Apel (Fabsits side)

NAKED BABY WALKIN'

So what are we doing tonight? Same thing we do every night. Bath, books and bed. And then I'll dream about taking over the world.