First Day With Violet

Hi Guys...my name is Violet and I'm new here. Very new in fact -- I was just born yesterday! I've had some visitors here in the hospital and it's been nice meeting everyone. I met my big sister, Ayda, my aunt Mimi, my friend Alyssa, and Nana and Pup! It was a very busy day and I slept through most of it. I was awake for a little while when my big sister showed me some videos on this funky screen thing.


My sis was very gentle with me and I really liked sitting in her lap and snuggling up next to her.


I don't know if you have noticed or not...but I have a lot of hair. Mimi gave me this upsweep...


As far as babies go, I'm a really good one. I sleep a lot and don't cry very much. I have such a great family that I feel really lucky! Here are some more photos of them!



I'm such a good, healthy baby that I am actually going home today! Mama is feeling fine and we're ready for the comforts of home. Daddy went to pick up Ayda from school today and we're going to just hang out until we can go home! I'm going to ride in the back seat with my sister! How exciting! My Grandma and Grandpa from New York are coming to visit next week. I'm getting sleepy just thinking about all the excitement...

Introducing: Violet Anne

Guess who's finally a big sister? That's right ME! Ayda Sue Ellen Sonnenberg has a little SISTER named Violet Anne. I KNEW Mama was going to have a girl!


She looks just like I did when I was born...though people think Violet's hair is longer than mine is. Mama did such a good job having Violet -- she was in labor for something like 5 hours. It sounds like it hurt a lot.

Violet came out of Mama kicking and squirming around. Mimi says she had her eyes wide open! I guess she came out looking for me. I can't wait to show her around.

Spooky Spiders

Halloween will be here before ya know it, so Nana and I did some decorating this weekend. We made these spooky spiders to hang on a tree in Nana's foyer. I put the googlie eyes on them...aren't they creepy?


One even crawled over to Daddy and got up on his head! I took this photo before he realized what it was....

I can't wait to show you photos of my awesome Halloween costume Mama has been sewing me. I'm going to be a MERMAID!

Beauty

Aunt Mimi here.
I got the photos of my wedding back from the fabulous Mark McCall. When I saw this photo tears sprang to my eyes. Such a gorgeous snapshot of two of my favorite girls in the world. Pretty soon a new baby will be here with the family...but this precious shot of Ayda and Jennie will be a cherished reminder of "before."

Photobooth Fun

So Mimi and Shane had this cool thing at their wedding...it's called a photobooth! Mimi's friend, Katie Baker, was on hand to take photos... and she brought some really cool props! Take a look!

I really liked these moustaches...

And these satin gloves were meant for me...I just wish they would have fit a little better.

This is my cousin, Lexy. I was going for the rock n' roll look here...

Me and Mimi wore matching hats...and I really liked this cane thing I was holding.

All in all it was really fun. And I just LOVE looking at all these photos of myself. I'm so cute sometimes...

My Buddy Nana

This is my buddy Nana. I love to play with her because she has such a good imagination...just like me! One of our favorite games to play is to pretend we live in England and we are orphans. We have to make a living in the woods and do things like look for food to eat and gather firewood - which I'm really good at by the way.

Some Good Pickin'

I don't know if you know this, but Saturday was a perfect day to go apple picking!



This year we decided to go to the spot Nana and Papa used to take Mumma. It's an orchard called Conant's and you know what the best part is?!
The ladders!



Some I climbed all by myself, and some Daddy helped me with a little--especially when I went up really high.



The only problem was, he made them all wobbly! That was a little scary and I had to let him know that I, in fact, did NOT trust him.

After a little ladder picking, Mumma and I found some down-low apples that I could reach from the ground.



We filled this whole big bag!



I took that picture- thankyouverymuch and this gorgeous picture of Mumma sneaking an applelicious snack!



After some successful picking, I took the time to climb some trees. Isn't that cool that you can actually climb the trees here?!



Next year, I'll teach Bijou how to pick and climb!



xoxo Ayda Apple Seed