Trying to figure out this crawling thing...

Her are some pics of Violet trying to figure out how to move around like the rest of us. We have been encouraging the dogs to sit near her blanket to give her some incentive to move towards them. She loves to "pet" the dogs and normally squeals with delight.

*If you click on the picture you may notice a new addition to Violets cute little ear lobes - we got her ears pierced! She was a trooper and only cried a little.

Mothers Day Weekend

Okay I'm a little behind on my blogging... =) My parents came up for a visit - I think it was my mom's wish to see her granddaughter. It was a nice lazy weekend - and Violet got her own special time with both Grandma and Grandpa Wallsch. We took Violet on her first Como Zoo outing. For Mothers day both John and I got up to make a waffle breakfast for our moms and then we drove out to Gertans to check out some flowers. John made my first Mothers Day a very special day... I received beautiful flowers for both the inside of the house and ones for outside - I also received a special card from Violet and new web cam to keep in contact with my mom. We then enjoyed a lovely evening at Joe and Christian's for dinner.

Here is a pic of Violet after her long day at the Como Zoo.

Let-go-my-Eggo!

5 Month Update

Violet turned 5 months this past week - I was just looking at pic's of when we first brought her home from the hospital - wow has she grown. She is such a sweet baby, John and I still can't believe she is ours.

The Doctors have been very pleased with Violets attentiveness and strength - they recommended baby proofing our house soon. We can tell she is close to crawling - I will often set her down on her play mat and she will have moved in a 1/2 circle trying to get to me or more often the dogs. Sometimes I find her with her butt in the air - not sure what to do with her arms - it's soo funny to watch her figure this stuff out.

I started her on rice cereal a few weeks ago and I just introduced veggies this week - so far so good. I tried adding some apple juice to her cereal the other day and got an excited response - a very wide eyed baby with "fed me now" motions with her arms and hands. I will try to get it on Video one of these days. We think she will be a good eater seeing that she gets excited when ever we are eating around her - even to the point of yelling at Dad when he eats.

The dogs are her main entertainment these days she is just fascinated with them. We often hear her giggling at them as they walk by her. We are trying to teach her to pet the dogs nicely. I can tell Frank and her will be great pals, he adores any touch - we just have to make sure she doesn't try to put him in her mouth. Which brings me to her next "trick" DROOLING - she is teething which means everything goes in the mouth including mommy's face. So far she has a very sweet disposition and I like to do whatever I can to make her giggle - it is my favorite sound these days.

Here are a few recent pic's ... Enjoy!