violet thirteen months

Happy Birthday to our sweet Violet girl!  Since I missed the twelve month window (as well as her 1 year checkup), I am doing this post at 13 months.


Weight: 21.5 lbs (80th percentile)
Height: can't remember but 95 percentile
Teeth: 14 (just missing the bottom canines)

We had a small birthday party for Violet at a park near our house with some family.  Violet loved the cake that Auntie Leana made for her (purple ombre!) and ate almost the whole thing!

Sleep:
We were doing so well!  I night weaned Violet around 11 months and she began sleeping longer than 2 hour stretches.  Thank God for that!  We still had trouble getting through the night, and she was usually in our bed around 5am for an early morning snack.  A few weeks ago she got an ear infection, then we took a trip to Santa Cruz, then she got a cold, and sleep is terrible again!  Once she's feeling better its back to the sleep training grind.
Social:
Violet is a mix of a social butterfly and a mamas girl.  She will sit in random people's laps at story time and is much more friendly at this age than Kennedy was, but if anything is amiss, she wants mama!  Daddy won't do and she can be very attached when she's not feeling good.
Favorites:
Books: This girl looooves books!  She would be happy if we read books all day.  Some favorites are Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Katz lift-a-flap books, I am a Bunny, and any Bonyton book.

Foods: Cheese, bananas, and grapes.  I'm still nursing her a little bit, mostly before she sleeps and if she has an early morning wake up.

Songs: Knows the hand motions to almost all the songs we sing in music class plus twinkle twinkle little star and the itsy bitsy spider.  Loves to dance too!

Toys:  This girl is a blanket girl!  She loves dragging blankets around the house and is a major snuggler!  She also loves stuffed animals and drawing with our magna doodle.

Skills/Milestones: 
Violet began walking right around a year and now she is off and running.  She is also an excellent climber and can get herself up and down almost anything.  Totally terrifying!


Claps, high fives, puts things into a container, scribbles, gives kisses (the cutest!)
Words: Too many to count!  Knows all animal sounds, ball, book, bear, bunny, Kennedy (deedee), puppy, Mormor, Elmo, mama, dada, arm, toes, nose, all done, yeah, no, hi, bye, hello, hop.  There are more but I'm blanking.
Violet, we love your contagious joy, you energy, and your sweet disposition.  May your light always shine for Jesus!





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