Zoo Day!

I have been having a little trouble posting lately, stupid Safari got updated and keeps crashing, blogger doesn't want to work with Firefox, when can I have a browser that is compatible with everything? I guess I can only dream.

Nana and Papi came to town last week to take little miss V to the zoo. We had a great day, Violet thoroughly enjoyed herself.

The best part of the trip = Ice Cream

Seeing the elephant! It was huge

Family Vacation

We just returned from our family vacation in Port Orchard WA. We had a ton of fun, and of course stayed very busy going across the border to Canada, searching for vampires in Forks, and eating fish in Seattle. Violet had a ton of fun learning to share with her cousin Jubilee.

Violet and Jubilee having tea

Tea at the Empress in Victoria

She's just petite!

I've been holding off for a week on posting my little darlings latest doctor visit stats. We had to change pediatricians recently due to Violet's retiring, so we saw a new doctor, Dr. Kasten. He seemed nice enough, asked of lost of questions
what can Violet say - really you want me to list off all her words?
can she brush her teeth? which should have been asked "does she want to brush her teeth?"
But my favorite question of them all:
What does she eat?
Why does this matter? because my little one weighs a whopping 24 pounds, which puts her in the 16% of her age group, to give some perspective she weighed 20 pounds at 1 year. After beating myself up for a few days, and talking to my mother, I realized she is perfectly healthy (have you ever seen her eat? she does not hold back) I learned that people were always commenting to my mom that I was so small (don't I wish that still happened?)
So Violet, all in all I think you're going to be just fine, you're just a little petite. Petite is a good problem to have.

Quilt

My friend Jen gave Violet the most beautiful sweet quilt for her birthday. I became obsessed after this, reading about quilting, going to fabric stores. With a lot of help from Jen, I am almost finished with my very first quilt. I didn't touch the laundry or housework last weekend, instead I sat at my sewing machine determined to finish the front. It is done, now it's time to make the back (oh and do the laundry) I requested Violet to smile in the first photo.

90 degrees

What is there to do when it's 90 degrees outside? Play in the fountain, with my super cool shades (the only reason she looks a little upset is because the little kids next to us were eating ice cream) Thank goodness for water features in Portland to cool us down on these hot summer days.