Our week

It's been a pretty low key week.  We've just been staying home and relaxing.  Violet really needed to get out of the house today so I took her to the park for a while but it was too hot to play on the toys so she went on the swings for a bit and then we walked to the mailbox.  Poor V has been bearing the brunt of a mom who hasn't been up for playing much this week and she was running laps around the apartment this morning!  She needed to get out!

Church is right in the middle of nap time and so Violet is always exhausted by the time we get home.  On Sunday she  was watching a cartoon and half sleeping and she slept with her hands up in the air like this for like 20 minutes.  She was so exhausted.

Our little Linus showing off her new dress and new rainbow shoes.  She got the dress and shoes for her 2nd birthday.

This was before church, and V was ready to take a nap.  I couldn't get her to take her Bink out.  So here she is in her beautiful new dress and matching bink  :)

V got to pick out some presents for her birthday and she got some new tub crayons and some new tub paint, here she is testing out her new crayons.  We tried the paint but she mostly just paints her tummy with that.  My tub is very festive these days!

Violet's hair is getting so long.  We put a ponytail in her hair the other day.  She didn't like it much and promptly pulled it out but Peter snapped a quick picture of it so we could prove that yes we do, do our daughters hair.  You can see in the picture that Violet has been decorating our house with some sidewalk chalk.... well some of it is crayon but mostly it's sidewalk chalk which wipes right off.  Everything is covered in chalk, the patio door is her favorite canvas along with the desk and all the book shelves.  The world just isn't colorful enough for Violet she always has to color on everything.

One of Violet's favorite things to do is to dance around the living room.  I love this since it gives her a way to get her wiggles out when it's too hot for us to go outside.  I think maybe next year we'll check out some ballet classes.  I think I may have taken this video friday, this was right when she woke up she hadn't even had breakfast yet, she just came right out of her room and was ready to go so I turned on some music and she just danced the morning away!

This is Violet after a big day.  I don't remember what day this was but V hadn't taken a nap that day and after dinner we went swimming.  After we had gotten ourselves all cleaned up from the pool Violet just completely zonked out.  She was so tired, I thinks she fell asleep as Peter was carrying her to bed a few minutes later.