We had a 'birthday party' for Canada today at Matt and Liz's house. Our hosts indulged Violet's current fixation (yes its serious - first thing she wants in the morning and last thing at night) on birthday parties by getting everyone to sing happy birthday to Canada when the Canada Flag cake was served.
Violet is awfully hard to keep up with these days - she is counting (to somewhere around 16 - those teens mess with her head), learning her letters and numbers (early days with these), 'reading', running, jumping and using her little imagination in ways that surprise us all the time.
She is really starting to pretend a lot and role play real life - LOTS of time is spent going shopping, having tea (and of course birthday) parties, reenacting or making up Dora episodes. We do feel that her love of Dora (a little less lately) may make her a little bit of a drama queen - no laughing out there! She often comes out with things like 'oh no mommy/daddy the baby can't find his mommy, what are we gonna do? We have to help him" This is of course followed by a lot of excited gibberish that we try to stay out of until the baby is rescued/finds his mommy/gets foods etc.
Our little gal turns 2 and a half next week - incredible how fast its happening.
Oh yeah and she NEVER stops talking! Her two favourite words are "I want":)
Pics from Saltspring visit...
This video is called 'You'll never find your sandcastle now" another Dora reference to Swiper the sneaky fox who is always swiping Dora's stuff.... this is at Mount Doug beach which is one of Violet's favourite places to get naked and play in the dirt. See the photo below for the full monty visual...
