Sweet Violet

Our beautiful almost-2-year-old 

 

Violet Mae seems more and more like a "two" every day. 

Not in a "terrible" way, but she seems so much older, more mature, more capable, more talkative.

 

Violet has quite a sweet tooth! Here, she enjoys a cupcake for my friend Christine's baby shower Friday. Christine owns Stroller Strides, and her firstborn Ezra is a day younger than Vi. She'll be having her second son soon.

"Can I help?" is a frequent Violetism. She hears Cora ask the question and get jobs to do, and she wants to help, too. Yesterday, for instance, both girls washed down the table legs, chairs and windowsills.

Here, Cora had completed her silverware chore and I hadn't yet put the caddy back into the dishwasher. Violet climbed onto the chair and "helped" by filling it back up. 

Violet likes to climb.  

This is from our Mom2Mom playdate today at Burger King. Violet kept pushing the high chair around to use it as a stool, since climbing into it was no trouble at all.

 Even this shows the effect of Violet's climbing. Stace was working in the garage, so we put the playpen in with him. Violet later climbed out and strapped herself into her stroller. She likes climbing, and she likes straps.

Here she is at Juliana's, when she climbed into Natalia's stroller. 

 

 Our cuddler - Violet still enjoys snuggling! "Hold you, hold you," she'll say. We'd love to, Violet, love to hold you and keep you our little snuggler forever!