Violet Loves Blue at 21 Months

Our beautiful baby is growing up so fast.  She has been fascinated by colors and at the beginning of this past month she would refer to every color as blue.  Now, she knows that her eyes are brown just like her mama's and her sisters and that pink, yellow (pronounced the same way she pronounces jello) and red are also possible colors.  Blue is her favorite though, and she will excitedly point out things that she believes are blue.

Violet has developed a love for scissors and because this scares me, I have no pictures to document this new hobby of hers.  I have to admit though that she is getting good at using them.  And because Lucy and Emma just can't put scissors away no matter how much I hound them or hide the scissors, I have taught Violet the safe way to carry them, in the likely event that she finds some before I find her.  Here she is below in clockwise order from the top left: eating a snack directly out a bag she swiped from the counter, playing with Lucy and Emma's Legos which is a disaster to their beloved creations, and finally, just a regular morning destroying our living room while I am preoccupied with something else.

 

The other day as I stepped out of the shower, Violet came into the bathroom holding out a brown covered hand and saying, "Ewwww."  Upon closer investigation, I realized that her hands were covered in poop.  After putting together several more clues, I determined that she was waiting for someone to find her as she hid in Will's work shirts hanging in our closet, got bored, and decided to try her hand at finger painting.  That same day included our toilet flooding two floors of the house because another child of mine put too many wipes down the toilet and then that evening Violet decided to fight her bedtime diaper change, resulting in her peeing all over herself, me and her bed.  By the end of the day my hands were painfully dry and cracked from all of the scrubbing and my washing machine had put in overtime.

Lucy and Emma do not prefer to play with Violet and because of that, Violet either plays on her own, or with me during the day.  Below are two of her favorite things to do when all of the scissors have been properly put away: playing with her Little People or playing "Roll" with me.

She has been absorbing all of the things that Lucy and Emma are learning and whenever she sees letters she will point to them and say, "E I E I O".  In fact, Violet has also picked up on the chores that Lucy and Emma have been assigned, and insists on helping out too.  Here she is below clearing her plate after lunch.

Violet's temper tantrums are definitely ramping up.  She holds the trophy now for the loudest, highest pitch screamer in the house and most of the time can break her sisters in under a minute.  Will and I struggle to stay strong with her too.  Things that would have resulted in a power struggle with Lucy at this age are now things that I have decided that I am too tired to fight her on.  You don't want to wear pants?  No problem.  We will bring a pair with us and you can tell me when you are cold.  You don't want to sit at the table?  No problem.  When you are hungry you are welcome to join us.  You don't want to get your diaper changed?  No problem, I'll try again in an hour.  This has reserved my energy for things like cleaning up poop and pee and toilet water.

When I do have to say no to Violet, I brace myself as she throws a fit.  She will eventually tell me "O-Tay" through tears and sobs.  Fortunately, she does simmer down pretty fast and will then happily move on to something else.  She doesn't seem to hold a grudge and is laughing again in no time.  This girl definitely lives life to the fullest and knows exactly what she does and does not want.

 

Scissors are fun,

My Violet loves blue.

She is sweet and feisty too!