(last weekend we were also lucky to get a visit from aunt mary ann, who was here for a quick business trip, but i need to steal a few of her pics to post too.)
(kevin gets his verizon iphone in a week, so hopefully it will improve our picture taking.)
the weekend kicked off with a walk to the gelato cafe for our morning coffee. violet is already becoming a regular (and dare i say favored) patron. she loves to peruse the colorful case of flavors. the fact that she has a taste for full-fat dairy has everything to do with her current diet and nothing to do with my own dietary leanings.
next up was a monster 2+ hour nap, during which courtney arrived and got to catch up on the celebrity rags with me, and then we hit the grove. violet enjoys the farmer's market because there's so much to see, but the hands down favorite is of course the dancing fountain. she was fussing around a little, but the leaping water immediately calmed her. (incidentally at bath time, she's started smiling and grabbing at the stream of water anytime we pour a bowlful onto her belly.)
it was enough excitement that violet even finished a bottle and then had a boob snack in the nordstrom ladies lounge.
what, no photo of the latter?
violet then car-napped through our pit stop at another dessertery that i can only imagine she would love: milk. we took our cookies and ice cream home and then ventured to find a few less calorically calamitous items at our saturday night hotspot, whole foods. while i'd always believed the produce section was violet's favorite, when i picked up a box of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (wow, cookies get mentioned a lot on this blog), she started kicking her feet, squealing, and grabbing at the box like nothing i'd ever seen. her right sock fell off three times during the outing and was retrieved and returned by three kind strangers.
in the morning, we almost cheated on gelato cafe and went to aroma, but the aroma line was, as it often is, an around-the-bend whip of hipsters, so we returned to the cozier cafe for morning snacks. they make homemade pop tarts, so it's hard to go wrong.
embarrassingly, courtney took a bunch of photos of us, and we took zero of her with violet. i vow to get better about this. i am honestly ashamed.
we also took no pictures of our good times at john and lisa's house for the superbowl - potentially the last time violet will see them before her new pal baby dietrick (due friday) arrives! while violet wasn't a good luck charm for the dietrick home team, she was a good luck charm for her dad, who had the magic numbers in his office pool for the halftime score and won $500. violet gently suggested that we start saving for her wedding because she wants a valentino gown, an open bar, and swans. what has auntie courtney been teaching her?
yay! great update. and the cutest violet! am so proud of her cookie cravings!
ReplyDeleteSwans. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the update! I am so all about the hoodie with the ears. I think I might have to print that pic and put it on my desk at work.