Chop chop!

Olivia definitely needed a haircut so we decided to go all out and do a little bob, again. I honestly can't imagine how long and crazy her hair would be if we hadn't cut it twice now. I was a little sad today but fortunately hair grows back! For now, it's a cute change. :)

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An update!

Everyday I tell myself I am going to sit down and catch up on blogging from October to present day. But then I don't do it. Maybe I'll just keep blogging forward and come back to the end of 2010 when I get around to it. As unimportant as blogging really is, I've decided I'd like it to be semi-important to me because it's a way for me to journal all the photos I take. So, here's a little sampling of how things are going around here. Violet will be one next week and she is as crazy as ever. She's been taking steps for what seems like months and in the past few weeks has started walking more consistently. Now she is up to full time walker status and is cracking us up with how she's trying to up the ante a little and break into a little run once in a while....which usually results in a fall. She loves her sister, big people food and her babydolls. She has a whole gang of them that she rotates through. I believe our baby count is up to 5. She is so sweet and loves anybody. I told Adam if she was a good sleeper (she is not), she'd be a literally perfect baby! Haha. I guess she is still perfect to us though. Love our crazy little sister.

These photos were the result of me being on the phone for 5 minutes and Violet somehow getting the peanut butter open and going to town. Fortunately it was mostly all over her and not so much all over everything else. She hasn't had pb before so needless to say her whole fist was in her mouth when I found her!

All clean in the tubbies!

*Sorry about the bad photos...they were taken on my phone but i had to make them big to fully demonstrate how much peanut butter was all over her. good times!

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pumpkin patch 2010

seems i never get good pictures at the pumpkin patch. last year's weren't much better. this year, we decided to go at the very last second one night...hence everyone's end of the day haggard appearance. specifically- my grossness, olivia's frizzies, and their non-festive outfits which adam deemed polygamist dresses on the way there. whatever! major clearance at target doesn't go unpurchased in this household (unfortunately) so sue me. enjoy this ridiculously belated post. i just scrolled through my iphoto and feel extremely overwhelmed. 

Merry Merry

I may be very behind on blogging, but at least my Christmas tree is up! Happy Holidays.... Don't give up on this little blog... She'll come back one of these days!



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fall festival

here is my first attempt to get caught up on blogging. i am sooo behind. so, things might be short and sweet for a while until i'm up to current day... if that ever happens! i think there are probably things to blog before this, so maybe we'll be doing things a little out of order, but that's ok.

back in october, olivia's preschool had their annual fall festival. they go allllll out. we went with olivia's cousins coleman and mckinley. coleman goes to the same school. here are a few pics.....good times.

 my little preschooler being camera shy

 violet in her second home..the stroller. good sport! 

 olivia and mom on the train. she loved it.

 hugs for cousin coleman and his cotton candy!

 they had a camel at the petting zoo. olivia was having none of that. too scary. that's her new favorite thing to say lately. "i scaaaaaaaaaaared!" i wish i could record the voice she says it in. we stayed at adam's uncle's house one of the nights we were in UT and i had her sleep in the bedroom next door. she's usually fine doing stuff like that and likes having a big bed all to herself, but i guess she heard me with violet or doing something she did not quite like, because i heard her yelling from the other room, "HEY! i SCAAAARED!" it was only funny because it seemed like what she was really meaning was, "um- do not leave me in here in the dark to go play with that sister of mine..." but we all know being scared is a good excuse!

 cousin mckinley made a special request to have a butterfly face painting instead of whatever they were offering. apparently the other options did not suit her style!

 violet with her signature smile

attempt at a family photo. olivia was VERY thirsty and did not want to stop guzzling her drink for a picture. :)

A post

Here's a little something... I want to post about Halloween when I get a chance.

This is Olivia's preschool picture she just got back. I just took a pic of it on my phone, that's why it looks kind of funny. There were a few where she was actually looking at the camera, but she was making some crazy, mad gremlin face so I opted for this one where she's looking at her teacher or whoever. So angelic with her hands placed together. Haha, yeah right. Happy Friday!




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i.am.so.tired....!!!!!!!

let me introduce you to a little monster. her name is violet, but her dad has nicknamed her "violence." yes, she is cute as can be and yes, she waves to strangers and deceives them with her big, dorky smile....but she is trouble. trust me.

  

today i woke up so beyond tired. olivia usually sleeps in till 8am, at least. violet, however, is awake for SURE by 7:15...and this is after waking up multiple times during the night. a couple nights ago she finally started going down at her usual 8 and not waking up until 4, but last night that was spoiled by the fact that she also woke up at 3:30 and 5:30. this is UNACCEPTABLE!!! i don't understand how people with a 3 year old that wake up are still sane. if that is you, you are amazing. i couldn't handle it. i couldn't take it this morning. all the middle of the night activity for the past 9 months has been catching up to me, so you better believe that at 9am, i put violet down for a morning nap (which she of course tried to refuse), put olivia in my bed with me, gave her my iphone to watch pinky dinky doo, and i shut my eyes. of course i couldn't fall asleep...always happens...but luckily olivia is an iphone whiz and took it upon herself to restart pinky dinky doo (i need to download more than one episode) and watch it again. so i got a whole 50 minutes of half-sleep. i did feel a little better though. after that, i pulled it together and loaded up for a few errands. we're home now and they are taking a nap but of course i'm too awake now. this is my chronic problem. when i am overly tired, the only time i feel like i can effectively catch up on sleep is if i lay down shortly after i wake up. if i get up, get ready, do some errands, etc...forget it. i'm up. and then by nighttime, i have long forgotten how tired i am and stay up until 11 or later watching tv. UFGHpadfjskl...as i type this violet is yapping in her crib. of course olivia (my angel sleeper) is out cold. 

i KNOW i need to let violet cry it out. all night long. and i'm planning on it. i just have to set up shop for her in the office or playroom since they are sharing a room. poor olivia would probably sleep right through it (she is like adam- a bomb could go off and they wouldn't wake up), but i'll do her the favor of removing the terror from her room for a few nights. it might have to be tonight. i should go set up right now. 

anyway, aside from the fact that violet thinks she is invincible and doesn't need sleep, she is also just crazy in general. i think it might be due in part to the fact that i was a more responsible parent with olivia, so now the comparison is not accurate. for example, i would keep the bathroom door shut. then you never have to find your child playing in the toilet. violet is all over the place all the time, usually causing some kind of trouble. but adam and i both laugh about how you can't even stay mad at her, because as soon as you pick her up she stops her fake crying and gives you a funny face or acts like she is telling you something really serious. she is obsessed with olivia and never leaves her alone. when she wakes up from a nap, she scans the room for olivia asap as if she's saying, "ok! i'm here! what did i miss?!!?" the other day they were both going down for a nap and olivia was talking to herself and kind of hyper before she fell asleep, which violet thought was sooo funny. then olivia's voice cuts off because she's fallen asleep and i look in their roomt o see violet jumping in her crib yelling over to olivia like she's saying "noo!! don't give up! just never go to sleep and she'll get us up!" so bad. 

ok, enough babbling. long story long: violet is a crazytown, USA resident and is giving me a major run for my money. but luckily she is funny and cute and our favorite bad bad baby, so we love her anyway! she still only has 2 teeth, has recently started standing alone w/o furniture and has started saying a lot things. obviously just kind of copying sounds at this point, but it's pretty funny. earlier today i was telling her to "stop!" (shocker), to which she replied, "DOP!" she also says "ohhhhnonononononoooooohhhhnonono" in one big run-on word usually when she is mad or wants out of her crib. she says baby appropriately and is obsessed with hers. i need to get her a new one for christmas because this one is about done. it has been through many near death experiences, including, but not limited to, being dropped on her head in every store in town and getting tangled up in the stroller wheel. poor baby. i'll have to try and get it on video....she loves to find it and say "bay.....beeee."

 she also says "go! go!" a lot when she is crawling around  and "ha!" (with a wave) when she's in front of the mirror or prompted by someone...so maybe she is figuring out what those things mean!

baby loves her baby

ok, all done! we'll consider this a journal entry for our little vi vi. here are a few shots (in no particular order) of her for fun...toodles.

spaghetti head

a rare moment...asleep in the car. not a bad pic for being taken on my phone, huh?

 mad face after a nap

 shopping at nordstrom rack....trying on accessories, of course!

 sunny day at the park

 soo mad at me because i wouldn't give her any more yogurt!

and still mad at me even after i gave her more!

 hanging with mom in the car...

 dragging her baby out of the playroom. love that little weird half smile.

 she totally thought she hit the jackpot. don't worry- it was empty. 

 so happy i am 2 for 2 on kids that looove the beach.

hanging out in her room one morning

 trying out the cinderella dress up. she is sooo child #2. olivia only wanted to wear dress up shoes, so i put V in the costume. that's always how it is. "olivia doesn't want it? give it to violet. olivia doesn't like that? give it to violet. olivia won't do it? make violet do it." so funny/sad!

church trunk or treat!

being a dork in her highchair

 stopping by papa joel and gigi's to trick or treat!

she got a can of tomato paste out of the pantry the other day and was trying to chew on it. weirdo.

**note- i started this post yesterday and then last night violet slept 8:45-6:45, and that's with no crying!! waahooo! she also took a great morning nap but of course now, olivia is zonked out and violet is playing around underneath the table where i am sitting. awake.