Look-a-likes?

I posted this photo on Facebook and a bunch of people though it was Violet. Nope! It's Miss Willa all the way! She really doesn't look like Violet to us, but every once in a while she'll strike a pose that looks like her sister...
Violet at around 1 year...This week we moved Willa from the baby bathtub to the "big girl" bathtub (a bigger tub, but not quite our entire bathtub. Violet STILL likes taking a bath in the little tub!). She can sit up by herself and she learned to SPLASH! I forgot how funny that is the first time they figure that out. We even caught it on video!

Crazy girl! Or in Violet's words "She SO SO CRAZY!" (everything is "SO SO" to Violet. SO SO cute. SO SO bee-ful. SO SO silly.)
Post splashingShe has also turned into a roller. She can't crawl yet, but can get pretty much wherever she wants by rolling. Yesterday she rolled around Porter. He continued with his nap despite little tiny hands picking at his paws and whacking him on the back. Such a good dog!

Violet got REALLY sick this last week. She was out of commission for 6 days where she couldn't keep anything down. She was borderline dehydrated (we ended up at Urgent Care) and lost a few pounds :( It was horrible! But she is FINALLY starting to feel better and this mommy HAD to get out of the house today! So we bundled up and headed to the zoo. Even though it was in the mid-40's today, there is still quite a bit of snow out. It was really cool to see all the animals out in the snow - the zebras and giraffe looked especially funny! Some animals were really active too - especially the seals. For how much we've been to the zoo over the past 2 years, we have never seen them playing like this! Violet thought it was great!
And one more Willa video. This is quintessential Willa. She is just so happy and sweet. We showed her how to shake her rattle and she gently shakes it with so much concentration.

And one note about our house...
I really really hate our kitchen floor. I know I've said it before, but when they sold the house the sellers quite obviously did NOT think anyone was going to KEEP the kitchen. It is very very outdated, but it's RETRO outdated so we like it. Except the floor. It's really crappy, dirty looking (no matter how much I mop it!), paint splattered linoleum. I have been scheming to figure out how to get it replaced before we start refinishing the basement, and I wondered if maybe, just maybe, there might be wood floors underneath. So Jon agreed to peel back a little and see what was underneath. Up came the linoleum. Up came the plywood. And underneath we found... this:
IT'S GOT GOLD FLECKS!!!

Seriously - it is pretty cool. Unfortunately there is no way to know what kind of shape it is througout the rest of the kitchen without doing what Jon did (which took forever to peel away this little 5" x 5" square). And it would be full of staple holes. And I'm pretty sure this flooring is full of chemicals or something that is horrible to have babies crawling around on. But it's SO SO pretty.