Ho-Ho-Holy Presents! (& Hello 2011)

What a lovely first Christmas it was for little Miss Violet! (Or as we are calling her these days - besides the Papoose - Miss Agoo and Pollywog.)
She scored big in the present department. Must be because she was such a good little girl and she made sure to squeeze three visits in with Santa, to boot.

I would go down a list of presents she received, but I think I would lose track. We are still trying to find space for all of her new stuff and this kiddo just turned 3 months old! (Yup, 3 months and 2 days old today to be exact!)

Oh hai! I am 13lbs & 10oz and I heart Fozzie! Wokka! Wokka!

On Christmas Eve, Mike and I exchanged presents. We do this every year. (Scored a Barnes & Noble color Nook...w00t!) We figured since Violet would not know the difference, we would help her open her gifts. She passed out at 10:30pm and I had to wake her up at 8:30 Christmas morning. This child is definitely like her parents! We are sleep hogs! (Quick side note *** She has been sleeping through the night for almost 3 weeks now. A lot of parents have different ideas of what sleeping through the night is for them. This is what it has been like for us - she sleeps,unswaddled, for 7-9 hours, sometimes 10. We have to wake her up in the mornings half of the time. It's nice bc when she wakes up, she is changed and fed and then will take a half hour nap. Other than that, she is very much wide awake and as active as she possibly can be and rarely naps.)

Back to Christmas! We hosted a very informal breakfast here at our house. We actually did not end up eating until after noon, but that's okay! Food, presents, bopping around, naptime, etc.
We then headed over to Gigi and Grandpa's for Round 2. Insanity. Presents, presents, lots of insanely delicious seafood and oh yeah, did I mention presents? Sheesh!

Too much mistletoe!

So happy, grateful and thankful to our families for thinking of Violet and being so generous and thoughtful! While we appreciate the gifts, we would really rather have our friends and family spend time with Violet (not money.)

This has been our best Christmas yet and I have a feeling that each year, it's going to get better. After all, it's all about the children and the wonder, awe and magic of the holiday season!

Violet has started the early signs of teething. This has been going on for about two weeks. Just the other night, Mike noticed and pointed out that her two top teeth are actually showing through her gums. I wish I could get a picture, but she probably would not sit still long enough for it. She discovered her feet on Christmas Eve. What a trip! I am pretty sure she was mesmerized by the stripes on her BabyLegs and then noticed her wiggly little toes. Now she cannot stop grabbing at them and pulling her feet up toward her face. She cannot stop laughing anytime she sees one of our pets. She also adores my mother and father's Golden retriever/Chow Chow mix, Sammich. She babbles and drools and coos and says A-GOOOO a lot! That is why we started calling her Miss Agoo. One of her new best buddies is a frog named Tad (get it?) so we started to call her Pollywog. Har har...
We crack ourselves up. She cracks us up.

On New Year's Eve, she met her four cousins. Hartland is six, Lillian is four (soon to be five - this month!) Grace is three and Ellis is two months old. Yup, she has a little cousin. (It's so funny to think she is older than another family member...heehee) My older brother and his wife - who were also celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary that night - came to visit and ring in the new year with us. Of course, Violet and Ellis just chilled and were being. well, babies while the girls danced and sang and played around and (hopefully) had a blast! The adults toasted at midnight and all was well! <3Glowy Christmas eyes!

P.S. We have so much video footage to go through, so once it's finally edited I am sure Mike will post something fun!