GO D! (and other obsessions)

violet is really into sunglasses lately. i couldn't resist letting her pick out her own pair at h&m. anytime she walks out the front door and is blinded by the sun, she throws her arm over her eyes and cries out, "suh-gass! suh-gass!" she does the same thing in the car if a ray of light happens to cross over her face. of course before she understood the function of sunglasses, she didn't mind the bright light. now you'd think she was a vampire (or a celebrity facing the paparazzi squad).

that's pretty much the story of the day, actually: she's learning the function of everyday things (and plenty of random ones) at an ever increasing rate, and once she knows what something's for, she wants to do it over and over again. the latest crazes are spray bottles, the toilet paper holder and the garden hose.

she's also big into witches, and kevin has parlayed that interest to further one of his own.

oh! more news! she half-pooped in her little potty once! i should get this down for all-important posterity. when she graduated to the toddler room at school, where she sees several of the older toddlers toilet training, we casually introduced her little green potty at home, and she likes to play like she's going to the bathroom on it. so the other day, i noticed her doing her telltale squat after lunch, and i said, "are you going poo poo in your diaper?" "YEAH!" she replied. "do you want to go on the potty?" "YEAH!!!" she sprinted down the hall with as much enthusiasm. long story short, she'd half-pooped in her diaper, but once stripped down, she pooped the other half in her mini toilet. we did some celebrating. i don't expect a repeat anytime soon, but it was awesome how psyched she was about flushing her own poop down the big toilet. when she gets her acceptance letter to harvard, i doubt i'll be quite as excited.

in other news, we've started to let her watch a little TV, by which i specifically mean go, diego, go! man, i can see what a slippery slope this is for parents. i mean, if we weren't actively engaging her to sing, dance, repeat the words, etc., she would just sit there zombified. oh the things i could get done in 24 minutes! so far, kevin and i have agreed that she can only watch one episode at a time, on netflix, with a parent, on the weekend. we'll see how those rules hold up. i have to admit, it's really freaking cute how much she loves diego and baby jaguar. a few days ago, we watched the christmas episode, in which santa and his reindeer are stuck in the snow, prompting diego to enlist linda the llama to (spoiler alert) save christmas for the animals at the animal rescue center. then yesterday, when violet noticed a santa book in her room, she leaped to her feet and barreled down the hall to the living room shouting, "GO D! GO D! WANT TV! GO D!" (i handed pandora's box to kevin and said, "dada, close this.")

also, my heart sank last night when she ripped her sock out of kevin's hand and declared for the first time, "mine!" there's something so much more endearing about "vivi sock!" i guess the third person feels more about the revelation that she has ownership over things, while the first person is a demand for them.

today's tragedy is that the SD card in my phone is coming up damaged, with a week's worth of photos and probably a month's worth of videos not backed up. i've got a few fixes to try, but thankfully i was (as usual) behind in posting, so here are a few more pics of the cuteness that has been violet's latest around town -- the griffith park pony wagon and carousel.