Hello again,

It’s Feb. 1st!  I can’t believe Violet is over 9 months old now. At her last doctor’s appointment she weighed 20lbs 12oz (75th percentile), measured 29 1/2″ (95th percentile), and her head measured 18 1/2″ (95th percentile).  Apparently, like so many other things, the big head comes from Derek’s side!  In other related news, Violet’s first teeth poked through yesterday!!  The front bottom two finally showed themselves after months of chewing and drooling.  Accompanied by one maybe two slightly whiny days and the tiniest bit of diaper rash.

We are so lucky.  She is such an easy going kid!  She’s been clapping, waving and doing “So Big” for a couple of months now.  Her newest trick is pulling up to standing and walking through the house hanging on to mom or dad or whoever is willing to have a sore back for a little while!

Her other favorite things to do are pulling her socks off, which makes Grandma Suilmann exclaim “You blew a hoof!”, bathtime accompanied by mom’s favorite “towel-head” cuddle time, and telling lots and lots of stories.

Sadly, she has outgrown her jumperoo, but we’ve moved on to her Crawl, Cruise, and Go playgym that she got from her great aunts and uncles for xmas.  She’s just learned how to put the balls down the slide and loves to make the music go so that mom will dance for her–sometimes she joins in waving her fists and shaking her head.

Even though there hasn’t been a post, we did put xmas, New Year and other random photos up on the picasa website http://picasaweb.google.com/derek.d.anderson/ .  Hopefully we’ll get some of the new toofers up there soon, too.

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!  Wishing you a day full of love and hugs and kisses and chocolate!

Love Derek, Clair, and Violet