OK. After much time away from the Dis (my internet was down for a bit) here are the much awaited pics of Princess Violet. You were all waiting for pictures of Violet, right???
Vi's first photos
and one w/ Dadda
I'll work on getting some more recent ones uploaded from my camera. for ya'll. I should be sticking around now that Vi is getting bigger and my internet is on and I have to get sewing for our Oct. trip.
Wonder what I can make for my sweet Violet????
OK. I know Marah asked so here ya go. There is no REAL story about Violets name.
We didn't come up w/ Lily's name until her due date...fortunately she was 2 weeks late. Following suit this time around we couldn't agree on a girls name either. so she came and they said "It's a girl" (well, that's not really how that went....I said "WHAT IS IT????" and the midwife turned her and opened up her legs and I SCREAMED!!!!! LOL) and then we were like "crap, she doesn't have a name." LOL.
You know once the baby is in front of you it's MUCH harder to name it. All of a sudden it's the biggest decision you will ever have to make, this kid is gonna be stuck w/ whatever you call it FOREVER!! So it took 3 days to name her.
Violet had been mentioned in earlier conversations and pushed aside I think b/c B knew it was the name of Ben Affleck's daughter
But I kept asking for Daisy. We call Lily "silly Lily" or "crazy daisy" all the time. I thought that would be funny. Cute, funny. not ha ha funny.
B said NO but we could use it as a middle name.
The night before we had to go in and give her name we were up all night looking at lists and going over nicknames etc.. and B was getting up to go to bed around 1. I told him he couldn't go to bed b/c we needed a name in the morning. He said he was beat and maybe it would come to him in his sleep.
Fine, whatev.
At 3am I get up to feed the nameless baby AGAIN and when I went back to bed B opened his eyes and looked at me and said "I know what her name is" Oh, yeah? what? "Cincinnati" ???? huh???? I said "no it's not" he said "yeah, it is." I said "no, it REALLY is NOT" I asked why and he said "Cincinnati, I like the word"
For those of you who are not Tori Amos fans or who may like Tori but aren't music nerds like my husband. there is an obscure B side song by Tori Amos called "upside down" one of the lines is " Cincinnati, I like the word."
The following day there was about 7 hours of trying to figure out Violets name. We knew what we werent' naming her...now to narrow it down . I mentioned daisy and one of the girls at the midwifes office mentioned Violet. I said I liked Violet but B didn't. He said no, it was an ok name. he didn't remember me wanting to use it before....the printer was down so they gave us a few extra hours. He said Violet Cincinnati. his new rationale is that Liliana's nickname is Lily, a flower. Her middle name is Elizabeth..the town he was born in (NJ). Violet is a flower and while I was not born in Cincinnati I was born in Oh. and East Liverpool wasn't a very good middle name. LOL. So that is the explanation we give most of the time. But really it's because a Tori Amos song popped into his head in his sleep and he was sure it was because that was supposed to be her name.
In the end it was a compromise. He got to use Cincinnati and I got a kid w/ a normal (but still different) first name. AND the baby didn't get named Quiet which had been what he was pushing for (weirdo!! that's what I get for marrying a musician!)
SO that is the extremely long version of how Violet Cincinnati got her name. LOL. It's growing on me.
(I replied to your question but it was the next day so I don't know if you saw it) If you did I want to see! I want to make myself a few shirts for my upcoming trip.
) She asked me to help because I am "crafty" - don'tcha love when people say that? Yep I am crafty because I am a witch and want to poof you. LOL - just kidding.
lady did it the other way. DUH!! 
I know your shirts will be fabulous!
