New Year's Eve Eve

Happy New Year's Eve Eve! We are celebrating in style over here. Violet and I ventured into the Big City to have lunch with Emily and Air Force Jen today at the Flying Biscuit, and tonight we've been invited to a dinner party in the neighborhood. Sweet Jody volunteered to babysit last minute (whew! I must get a running list of available sitters going!) so Violet will be headed to her house to hang out with Jody and her nieces - girls night!

Ladies who Lunch. Violet had more fun feeding Jen than she did eating herself!

Yesterday we reunited with our neighbors for dinner, and Violet got some late Christmas presents, not one but two baby dolls! A. really wanted to be the first to buy my sweet girl a doll, but her mother somehow beat her to it! (I just love when people who barely know Violet love her so much!) Anyway, this morning she and I had so much fun playing with the dolls. I'm wondering if Violet might have actually said her first word (other than Dada and Mama). After spending a good ten minutes listening to me talk about the "baby" and removing and replacing the baby's hat, I heard Violet saying under her breath "bababa". That's totally "baby"! And she did it spontaneously, not just mimicking something I was saying at the time. So we'll see what happens next time she sees the dolls.

My baby with her baby.

And for another first, Violet pulled up yesterday! She was sitting by the coffee table, wanting to bang on the top of it like her Uncle Lukas taught her. Then all of a sudden, she was up on her feet, all by herself! She's also getting really good and moving her feet, walking-style, once she is up, so who knows what will happen next. Alas, she plopped down on her butt at some point (girl hasn't learned the importance of gravity and/or holding on to things) and it might have scared her a bit - she hasn't tried the pulling up trick since. But still, cross that milestone off the list!