Bye Bye

Little miss is picking up new words every day it seems like. She's also starting to put them together more, especially to tell us what she doesn't want. The other night I made us scrambled eggs for dinner, and eggs are kind of hit or miss with her. Sometimes she'll eat them, more often she won't. I got her to have one bite, and kept saying "Yummy eggs!" to her in hopes it might encourage her to eat more. Instead, she waved her little hand and went "Bye bye eggs." and put her pacifier back in her mouth. I did get her to eat a few more bites, but she wasn't really excited about it. Now it's become a nightly thing with her, she'll usually say "all done!" when she finishes eating something but now just as often she'll say "bye bye (whatever it is she's been eating)!"

Yesterday it was "bye bye cookie!" and "bye bye cheese!"

She's also starting to stand up on her own, without holding on to anything, for a few seconds at a time. So pretty soon she'll be running, and then daddy will REALLY have his hands full!

Halloween

I had a costume idea yesterday evening while driving home from work (my first in many, many years - last time it was when I dressed up as Carrie when I still worked at Suncoast.) This one was for Violet, since we went the un-original route of ladybug last year. Not that she wasn't super cute in her costume, but I wanted to do something a little more original this year. As I was driving home, a Spice Girls song popped up on my shuffle (yes, I have Spice Girls on my iPod and no I am not embarrassed to admit it.) I thought it would be kind of fun to do a Spice Girls costume for Violet - not that they're at all relevant any more. Then I took it one step further. One of them is named Baby Spice. So, I could figure out how to do a costume sort of like a seasoning container for Violet to wear...get it? Baby Spice? I thought it was funny anyway. I told Andy my idea later that evening. He vetoed it. So - if anyone out there is looking for an original costume idea for their baby, feel free to use it. :o( It's back to the drawing board for me!

Crabby pants

Violet came home yesterday after spending the weekend at her Nan & Boompa's house. She's decided to start the terrible twos a little early. She's learning the fine art of whining when she doesn't get her way. Every little thing becomes a tragedy - she had to go in her high chair for a snack and the tray needed to be washed off before we could put food on it. She went in the chair, we took the tray off and she started shrieking! Then daddy wasn't moving fast enough with the food, so she continued to whine until she had her snack. Of course, then everything was just fine!! Despite the tantrums and naughtiness yesterday, she was being super cute. She kept trying to kiss Cobain (the more social of our two cats.) She stood up in front of the chair he was on, got right in his face and went "Mwah!!" Thankfully he is pretty mellow most of the time (and front declawed...)

Ssssss

Violet is quickly learning her letters. She's known O for a few months now, and knows A, M, E....now she has S. Last night she was hungry, so after I put her in her high chair I asked if she wanted Cheese - she was either trying to say it back to me, or she was trying to say Yes - or possibly both. Regardless, it was extremely cute. I kept asking her "Cheese?" and she would say "Esss." She can now say "Ernie" and "Bert," but Cookie Monster is still "Om nom nom" (the noise he makes when he eats the cookies.) She learns so fast, and picks up on so much it just blows my mind.

Kiddieland!

The grandparents (my mom & dad) took Violet and I to Kiddieland yesterday. In a word - CROWDED. This is the last season they will be open. So very sad, because as I walked around the park I realized just how much time I spent there as a kid. There were rides I had forgotten about, and I looked at them and thought "Violet will have so much fun on that when she's a little older!" Then had to stop and think - oh, this place will be gone when she's a little older :o(
On the plus side, she did get to ride a few things. We rode the train that goes around the park, during which she was much more interested in the specks of dirt on the floor. We rode the merry go round - twice. The first time I think she was a little unsure, but the second time she had a blast! We also rode the flying elephants - again, more interested in what was on the floor than realizing we were up in the air. The roto whip I was a little unsure about, since as I was in line to ride I watched a woman and her little one who looked maybe a little younger than Violet riding and the kid burst into tears as soon as the thing started moving. We rode anyway, and as the other kids screamed Violet just smiled. Once we got off she let out one little scream, as if to taunt the other kids for being scared.
I hope we get to go one more time before the park closes for good. I know Daddy would like to go with next time. I also hope if we can manage to go on a weekday that we won't have to stand in line for a half an hour for each ride!