Violet with her birthday gift from the family.
Today Violet turns 15 months old. Because the first year of her life was such a whirlwind, it is really hard for me to accept that reality, even though there are signs everywhere that our little Peanut is hardly a baby at all. Violet has a very sweet disposition – she is almost always happy and wants nothing more than to follow around her big sisters and imitate their play. She started walking in Nebraska and is a total pro now, carrying babies & stepping over things and making her way where ever she wants to go. Most often, Violet can be found toddling around the house with a baby doll under one arm or crawling into a child-sized chair to rock her baby or read a book. For talking, she mostly squeaks & squawks, but there are a few words – Mama, Daddy, cheese (for pictures not for food), chuchu (what we call her pacifier), no, uh-oh, uh-uh (as in ‘no’), and yes (not verbal, just a head nod). She has two sentences that she repeats – “I want chuchu” (but that can mean I want anything) and “I need go potty”. I swear that’s what she says. It doesn’t mean anything to her, but she usually says it when she’s unhappy about something. I suppose we talk about it enough with her sisters that she sees that they get attention for saying it! She knows where her nose & pupek (Czech for belly button) are and could probably learn the rest if we worked with her a little more. She added 5 teeth while we were in Nebraska so her little smile is full of pearly whites (7 total now), which makes her look a lot more grown up. I’ll be curious to see how much she weighs at her well check on Monday – seems to me that she’s put on quite a bit of weight in the last few months. She’s got a nice round belly now. I used to call her piglet a lot (hence the pig cake below), but now we call her Peanut quite a bit – probably too much – she definitely thinks that is her name (though she does respond to Violet, too). Here are some photos of her birthday since I didn’t get them up back then:
Violet enjoying her birthday pasta dinner.
The Piglet Cake
Singing Happy Birthday
Enjoying the Cake
Everyone joins in the fun
She’s growing too fast. Glad I saw her before she walked–and after. I love her happy smile. All your girls seem very happy with life and that’s a big compliment to her parents!!
We loved being able to host a birthday party for Violet and Molly here in NE this year. Each of the girls is very special and unique–it was so much fun watching Violet “become a little girl” while she was here!