My dear sweet, sweet Violet,
Today you are one. A marvelous one, and my how the year has flown. I want to say it's gone by faster with you than it had with your sister. It doesn't help that you turned one at the busiest time of the year. But it's been a great year. A fun year at that.
To start off, you officially have 8 teeth! Yes, another one just in time for your 1st birthday. Four on top and now four on the bottom.
You haven't started crawling yet, but your interest in it has begun. You do love to pull yourself up to a standing position though, and that seems good enough for you at the moment.
One of your favorite activities is to push things around the house. Anything really but your favorite is a wicker basket from the bathroom. You'll get up on your knees with your hands on the basket and do a half crawl/push thing. You love it! That is, until you get the object you're pushing stuck against a wall.
You don't say much, just a lot of yaya's, da's, ma's, zaza's, and ssssss's sounds like a snake.
You love cheese and to push pureed foods out through your front teeth.
We're still nursing like champs. You love every minute (and so do I). So much in fact, that it's hard for me to get you to let go even after you've fallen asleep.
You're not a great stay-asleep-er. Nap time only lasts about an hour and you'll still wake up every two to four hours at night. Sometime (but rarely) six if I'm lucky. But that's a blue moon kind of deal.
You've just recently learned how to get up to sit up from a laying position. It was nice that way. I could change your diaper without much of a fight. But now you are a squirmy wormy and will take off as soon as I lie you down. You think it's HILARIOUS to take off naked. You'll even turn around a strike this funny pose as if you want me to chase you. And I do. You're too funny to not chase down.
Your first birthday wasn't a huge extravaganza. I wasn't sure how it was going to go with Christmas and all. Plus we weren't at our house for that day. But next year I'm sure I'll have a better plan and we'll have a little more of a party for you. However, do know that you did have three parties and lots of gifs, hugs, loves, and kisses. You didn't go unspoiled.
And just a couple of weeks before you turned one, you gained a new cousin. And once you met him you LOVED him. Kisses galore. You also got mad when we took him from you so Amelia could have a turn. Good thing we'll be spending a few more days with him in a week!
That's another thing, you love giving kisses. And it's the sweetest!
We're also working on sign language so until you can tell us what you want/need, you can just sign it to us. We're first working on "please". That one is take a bit, however, after just a few times of showing you "all done" you've got it! So now I'm starting to think you don't want to do "please" just because.
Sometimes you'll still get mistaken for a boy since you still have hardly any hair. Even when I dress you in pink and purple! People are so funny sometimes.
You have a great laugh and will laugh at the funniest times.
You love to rock baby dolls and sing them songs.
You also love to sing at worship time while daddy is up on stage leading it, or in the car while we listen to music. You've loved the Christmas songs.
You're beautiful, and charming, funny, sweet, loving. Oh, how you love to give hugs!! Especially to your aunt Emily.
I just love you, sweet Violet. I am forever changed since you've come into our lives. And I'm so ever grateful to God for blessing my life with precious you.
Love, love, love you,
Momma
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