Counting...

She loves to count!  So far she just does "one, two, one, two, one, two" and it's so cute!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Violet got two special Valentine's packages in the mail and she was very excited!  Thanks to all the grandparents for making her day so special :-)

She loves her cards so much she couldn't tear herself away to look at the camera...

Decked out in pink at the Little Gym

A special lunch with friends

You know these two are Valentines!

Snow!

Saturday mornings are our special Daddy/Vi time. Normally we go to the park or the Science Center, but this week it was too cold out and too early for anyplace to be open. We woke up to a great surprise: SNOW! Right now, Violet is in a big snow phase, probably because we get so excited for her if there is even a dusting on the ground. After getting all bundled we went outside to play.


Her she is crunching in the 1/2 inch of snow. She loves her snow pants, snow boots, and gloves. After a few minutes, she started asking for her polar bear. She saw the Super Bowl commercial where the Coke polar bear is sliding on the ice and was cracking up at the TV.

One of her favorite books right now is Duck and Goose.

We decided to try to make a snow goose. This is our best attempt. You can sort of see a beak.


After making a snow goose, she insisted on making a snow mommy. So we wrote a message for mommy in the snow in the front yard. We couldn't stay out for too long, because it was so freezing!

Two!

Videos!

Catching up

We use big girl cups now!

Everything tastes better in these cups :-)

She helped me clean the fridge and did a great job!  Mostly, though, she loves using a Magic Eraser.

Hiding

We had a fun day with big Jake!

She insisted on wearing her snowsuit for a full 2 days - when it was over 60 degrees.  Crazy kid.

Ella pushed her on a scooter at the park

Construction entrance

Some people on our street may not like that we are the construction entrance for the work going on at the seminary. For a little one, however, it is awesome!  We see big trucks every day and she thinks it's so cool.  Today we watched as a man loaded a machine on a big hydraulic flatbed.  It kept us occupied for at least half an hour.  He was so nice and offered to let her sit in the big seat and honk the horn!  We tried but it was a little too high for her.  She did stand next to the big tires to see that they were bigger than her. 

She wanted to watch the big truck

I like our reflection in our door here

My favorite part of this picture is the little hand on my leg