Lily's Pad: Dear Violet

Dear Violet,

Happy half birthday pumpkin!!! I can't believe it's already been 6 months since you joined our family! It's been flying by! I wish you and your sister would stop growing so fast! I already miss those newborn days! But at the same time, every day that passes with you gets funner and funner!

You've gotten so strong this past month! You are now rolling both ways whenever you please. Any time I leave you on the floor, I come back to find you in a new position! Not only are you rolling all over the place, you are also break dancing all over the floor in circles! You both have been doing this for a couple months now, but it seems to have gotten more extreme this month, with more purpose! You are also starting to learn to sit up unassisted. You are not to sturdy yet though, so I can't step away from you while you are sitting yet! You'll get there this month I'm sure! I've also caught you starting to try to get onto you knees a few times! You push your stomach as far as you can off the floor and get up on your toes! Will we see creeping of crawling this month?

You have become a solid food eating fiend! You LOVE to eat solid food! You never turn down a spoonful of something, and are always happy with every new food you've tried so far! So far you've had apple sauce, banana's, carrots, sweet potato, and peaches. Peaches was the only one that you didn't love, but you still ate it. Banana's I think are your favorite though! You gobble those up! You get so impatient when I have to feed you and your sister at the same time though. When I'm giving her a spoonful, you get so upset and whine or cry until I give you another bite! You also love to play with your spoon a lot. You get so upset when I have to take the spoon back to feed you! Must be soothing to your poor teething teeth.

Since you having been eating more solids now, you've started to be less interested in breast feeding and bottles. You've dropped a bottle, so now you get three 5oz bottles a day. And we nurse a few times a day, mostly in the am and pm. It seems to be more of a comfort thing for you now. I'm so glad we stuck with it, even though it has been such a struggle, especially with you. We're in that nice bonding stage now of our nursing relationship! I love when you look up at me sweetly while nursing, and reach up to touch my cheek! That just makes my day! You also love to grab at my nose, and pull my glasses off my face! You are also easily distracted during nursing sessions now! You keep looking around at every little noise! So nosey! Still, I'm so glad we are at this point, and hope to continue nursing you as long as possible!

These past 6 months you have been the happiest baby I have ever come into contact with! You are so easy going! Every time someone meet you the comment on your beautiful smile! Daddy and I always joke about what a big flirt you are! It's adorable now...but I think in several years Daddy will start losing all his hair if you continue to be so flirty! Right now we love how happy and cheerful you are though!

Like your sister, you have become more and more vocal over the last month! You love to show off your voice with your coos and shrieks! The funniest thing you've discovered with your voice this month is how to click your tongue! I was stilling on the computer typing up something with you in my lap on 6/7, and suddenly you clicked your tongue! We both started laughing...it was so funny! You continue to click your tongue all the time! Another fun noise you've discovered how to make is a raspberry sound! You've started blowing them on my arms a lot now! It's hysterical!

My favorite new thing you've learned to do this month is give hugs! When we pick you up now, you wrap your little arms around us, and nuzzle your head into our neck!! It is the sweetest thing in the world! Truly melts my heart! You are also trying to either give kisses, or eat our faces off! You grab my face, and move in with your mouth open wide, and then attach yourself to my cheek, or nose! It's adorable, and slobbery!

You seem to adore the cats! Ouija, next to your sisters, seems to be your best friend! You just light up whenever you see her!! You love when she bumps heads with you, and curls up next to you, so you can brush your fingers through her fur. They both are so gentle with all you girls, even though you pull at their whiskers and try to bite their ears. They have always just patiently took all the gentle abuse. I hope you continue to have a love for animal though. I've always been a very sensitive to animals, and I can tell you are going to be the same way as me!

You continue to adore your sisters! You face just lights up when you see either of them! You think Lily is the funniest person alive, and you have such a sweet spot for Ella. Whenever I put you on the floor with Ella, you always reach immediately for her hand to hold, and you start talking to each other. Of course like any sibling relationship, you have your little squabbles over toys. Ella, unfortunate for you, almost always wins when you are going after the same toy. But you are so easy going, you often will be happy with just watching your sister play. It truly is a joy watching the toy of you play together though!

We love you so much Violet! Having twins isn't easy, but I am thankful every day that we were giving this wonderful opportunity to watch two of our children grow up right next to each other! I couldn't imagine our family without you and Ella being twins! It's crazy some days, but really we are blessed! We are so proud of how far you have come already! Even though you are a full 2.5lbs lighter than you sister, you don't let us know it at all in your development! I can't wait to see what next month holds for you and your sister! Stop being so eager to grow up so fast though! I love you Fuzzy!!

Love,

Mommy