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.
sometime just about a week old I would say, already starting to fill it out better even though she was down from her birth weight still
Luckily nobody had touched it!!!!
(and he got Timmy after DH)
shop? So it emails me when you add stuff? 
Seriously, I hate that! Just give me a call first to make sure I'm not horribly embarrassed when you show up!
