Mexico

We made it home from our first family trip to Mexico!  We had about 6 hours of travel time in a plane, and Violet did pretty well for her first long distance trip.  On the way down, someone even commented about what a mellow little girl we had, and how good she was.  The only lesson learned is that it is better to travel during the morning, than late at night.

She loved the beach and ate tons of sand and sea water.  I tried over and over to stop this, but each time I said no, she just laughed at me and put more in her mouth.  Rebellion at it's finest.

The funniest thing about Mexico was the reaction to Violet, women, men, and children would walk up to her and touch her cheeks.  I had never seen this done before, but seriously we couldn't go anywhere without people wanting to touch her.  At first I was leery of it, then realized that this was a compliment, and they only wanted to touch her.  She of course milked up the attention, and now can't go anywhere without hamming it up.   We have created a monster.

Here are some of my favorites pictures, and you can view all of them HERE

so many toys...

I wish we could take this toy to Mexico, she seems to have fun with it.  Funny thing is that she will only move backwards, not forwards, hasn't quite figured out that part out yet, it's pretty funny as she backs into all the furniture.  One day if you have free time I'll tell you about how I thought my old car didn't have reverse on it, and used to push it out of parking spots (yes, true story).... kind of reminds me of that.

Reading

One of Violet's favorite past times is taking all of the books out of the book shelf.  She will carefully inspect them, and sometimes if I'm very lucky will place them back (not very often).  She's found herself some very heavy reading below.

She is off on her first airplane trip tomorrow, wish us luck!

The Washington County Fair

We took Violet to the fair today.  Both Randy and I grew up going to the fair, he used to raise sheep (and was in 4H) and when I was in band we often marched in the parade to kick off the Tulare county fair.  Those were the days when you went to the fair to see Santana, and Willie Nelson, things have changed a bit.  In general Violet enjoyed herself.  She was in a bit of awe with the goats, horses, and cows.  We ate a corn-dog (she wanted more) then some ice cream (her new favorite), as soon as we buckled her into her car seat, she laid her head back and was fast asleep.  

My Little Surfer

For the first time ever, we went out to buy Violet a pair of shoes, as you can see from below she is much more confident on her feet.  We are off to Mexico in a week, and we don't have any shoes that would work for hot weather and sandy beaches (I am so ready for this vacation!)  

She is also teething pretty bad this week, her mouth is a very painful spot right now, she will sign "no more" over and over, which I think means she is done with the pain and wants no more of it.  I feel really bad for her.

Thanks everyone for the kind words about the possibility of being laid off.  I'm actually feeling much better about it this weekend, and am ready for the changes that could come my way.  It's kind of exciting, and Violet and I could spend the rest of the summer hanging out together.  What could be so bad about that?

surfer stance

where are those  teeth?