Repeat Offender

Violet pooped in the tub…again. This is officially the third time. It was cute the first time. Actually, it was cute this time too, because she pooped and then saw her poop in the water and got scared of it.
The not cute part? getting her cleaned up so fast and downstairs for the rest of [...]

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I’m afraid we might be raising a cannibal

Violet likes to bite. Her cannibalistic tendencies are displaying themselves right now as she and AJ play on the bed next to me. She just put a towel over his face and bit his nose. At least she’s a civilized cannibal and covered his face first.
I might add that while we do not condone biting in [...]

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Seattle Cheese Festival or Bust

key word being “bust”.
I’ve been in some serious crowds before. This, was a serious crowd. (by serious, i mean huge and humongous, not sober and austere). After taking the wrong bus and getting dropped off close enough to Pikes Place to end up walking waaaaaay longer than we intended, we were greeted by a Pikes [...]

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Hey Diddle Diddle…

Violet’s 4th word EVER, is (wait for it…) “Kitty”.
How totally cute is that? For those of you keeping track (alright, just me) the first word was Mama, the second was Dada,  the third, No! which brings us to the fourth being Kitty. There was a neighbor cat on our patio this afternoon, so Violet and [...]

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Funny Story

Ok, so here’s the deal.
Several times a week, we walk by a house with a beautiful golden retriever who always comes to the fence to see us as we walk by. If I was the thieving type, I’d steal this dog. Today when we walked by, he wasn’t there and when a couple blocks later, [...]

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mental pictures

Here’s a couple snapshots into my day.
5:06 pm: setting Violet down on the floor with an entire muffin to devour just to distract her long enough to make potato salad. Turns out, I can’t make salad in 2 minutes.
5:09 pm: chopping celery for potato salad while Violet fully crawls into the back of the tupperware [...]

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Baby’s First Roly-Poly

or rolli-polli, or rolie-polie, or…whatever. I figure its a pretty non-technical name, so you don’t have to worry about getting it exact. It’s part of the fun of the english language really.
We were playing in the grass when I found one and then I held it for her and let it crawl up her arm. [...]

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Hats Off!

Dear Auntie Showny,
Thank you for entertaining my daughter via “phone sitting” today so I could finish painting the downstairs. I know she’s too little to ever say anything back to you, but I can assure you that she was listening intently the whole time. I was too actually. I could hear you across the room [...]

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Ewwwww….

Ok, so here’s a horrific little story to help you sleep tonight: today, a friend of mine pulled the foot of a dead rat out of the mouth of her infant daughter.
Anyway, so here’s my great new idea. You remember those write-your-own-adventure books, where you could choose at different parts in the story what the [...]

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random

Violet has a booster seat/highchair now, so she sits at the table with us during dinner. I made her some spinach/banana/rice cereal stuff.  Tonight we all held hands and prayed before the meal; AJ’s big hands, Violet’s tiny chubby hands, and my medium-sized hands. The first of many.
I bought paint today. So excited. The guest bathroom [...]

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