Cousins

We met cousin Ashley and Aunt Laura at the Magic House and it was fun to see them!  Violet and Ashley played around each other and it was pretty impossible to get a picture of them looking the same direction. 

Being cute

Literally playing around each other!

Looking the same direction...just not at the camera.  Hello blondies!

Cute girls!

What we're into

Growing babies (14 weeks - a peach)

Writing names and the letter "V" on everything

Moby wraps

From Violet directly, "How about we both wear our moby wraps? I will put my baby in mine and you can put the new baby in yours.  When your baby grows and grows so big and comes out of your belly you can put the baby inside of the moby wrap like mine.  That will be good!  I will show you."

"And then we can go for a walk with our babies!"

Little Gym

Violet loves her Little Gym dance and gymnastics class.  Don't tell her this, but I think the gymnastics part is actually her favorite.  Here she is walking up the bar.

Hanging like a monkey on the rings! We need some park time STAT.

Date night

We had a date night last week and went to Mojo's on South Grand and to the Hartford for dessert. 

On our way we saw this car.  Help us figure it out.  There were balloons on the windshield and balloon flowers on the door handles!  Would you do this for a birthday?  Proposal? Prom date??

Almost 3

Sometimes you were sassy

Sometimes you twirled in front of the mirror

You loved everything outside and asked lots of questions

You were silly

You were done with diapers

You were so big in some ways and still little in others

You thought it was funny to take a surprise picture of daddy 

You were kissable and so innocent and beautiful

You loved to take naps together with mommy on the big bed

You told us jokes and thought everything could be funny

You're still just my baby snuggling with me on the big bed

Dinner and Dancing

Finally...finally...finally at a dance class!!  She met her end of the deal and has been in panties full time for a few weeks.  She is a big girl and definitely earned her reward - a dance class!  We are back at the Little Gym for a ballet and gymnastics class and she LOVES it!  The only complaint she had was that they didn't have music during the dancing part.

After dancing we went out for dinner just us girls to celebrate.  She was having a lot of fun although here she looks miserable.  I should really start asking someone else to take a picture of us.

Bump debut!

12 weeks and ready for my birthday dinner

10 weeks and baby the size of a prune

8 weeks with a big blueberry

Somebody else had to get in on the action

7 weeks with a tiny blueberry

Just for fun, link to some of the same weeks way back in 2009 when Violet was just the size of a blueberry!  http://tenholders.blogspot.com/2009/09/baby-t-is-growing.html