Great-Granddad's 95th Birthday Celebration 5/21/11

With Mimi and Beckett

1st visit to Great-Granny's grave

With Great-Granddad and Papaw

Bubbles with cousin Beckett

Vi's Rainy Day Dance 5/27/11

February and March 2011

Violet's first time climbing the steps.

Crazy Spoon Girl in February (you can see where her left eye has a spot of green)

On Feb. 13th

On March 12th

1st stage of walking

Here's footage of Violet walking with Mimi and Papaw on March 12th. She has become much more steady on her feet in a few short weeks, walking while only holding one hand now. She loves pushing the stroller....I guess this is the end of my aerobic stroller walks.

16 months of age has been such a joy. Violet is saying so many words I can't record them all, joking with us, loves playing with clothes (is currently playing with my socks repeating "gock, gock" and dancing with them), and is almost constantly singing or humming "la, la". She can almost perfectly sing the melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Every time I try to video that she stops and chases the camera, but I will succeed one day and post it. She's a busy little girl, especially considering she doesn't walk yet, and loves spoons, bowls, and putting in/taking out things.

Christmas in TN

Cardboard boxes, better than any gift!

Hamming it up on her new rocking horse

Making (and eating) a gingerbread man with cousin Beckett

At Mimi and Papaw's

Enjoying Papaw's new shelter on the creek

01 on 11.11.10

"You come from me and I come from you, that's how we both did come,
from milk and honey, bread and cheese, berries and wine and rum. You feel so soft and tender and smooth and warm here, I feel so glad you come to see me from that newborn baby's land" (from Woody Guthrie's Howdy Little Newlycome)

Oh what a momentous first birthday!
We celebrated her cousin Beckett's and Mimi's birthday all together at Edisto Island, SC.
From mama and dada, Violet got her first baby doll and a refurbished teddy bear that Mimi had made for mama's 1st birthday.

Vi enjoyed playing in (not eating) her very own birthday cake.

We can hardly believe our sweet Violet is one year old! She is our smiley, pointing-at-everything baby who babbles almost constantly with an amazing array of sounds, talking even before she wakes up. We feel so lucky that she came to see us from her newborn babyland.
Happy 1st Birthday, Violet!

11month-old little pumpkin!

Happy 11 months, Violet! We can hardly believe it has almost been a year since the little "newlycome" blessed us. Vi is getting more mobile, but she is not crawling yet. She can roll across the floor faster than any baby I have seen and heads straight for whatever she is not supposed to get into with a big grin. She is constantly babbling with a new "gurgle, gurgle" sound this week and says "uh-oh" so appropriately. She would have enjoyed the pumpkin patch much more if it had not been 85 degrees that day!