A Day in the Life of Violet

6:00a.m. - - Wake up for the day. Who needs more than 4 hours of sleep, not this girl.
6:15a.m. - demand James Henry give up the couch and move to the chair. Then insist on him moving from the chair to the couch, and then do it all one more time.  In a really loud voice. Proceed to scream for a re-fill of chocolate milk in her sippy cup, until someone brings it....
6:25a.m. - finish drinking chocolate milk and immediately throw sippy cup as hard as possible at the TV
6:26a.m. - Demand Care Bears Grumpy Bear episode
7:00a.m. - After watching Care Bears, runs around and tells everyone how much she loves them
7:01a.m.- Immediately hates everyone, and must tell each person. LOUDLY.
7:15a.m. - After demeaning the loved ones, demand a bath
8:00a.m.- Get out of the bath squeaky clean and dance around the house.  Waving the nakey butt and singing, "I'm tellin you why. Santa thinks I'm great."
8:30a.m. - Scare the hell out of mom by hiding upstairs underneath Maisy's bed and oinking like a pig.
8:45a.m. - Give up on mom finding the best hiding spot ever, and come down stairs oinking as loud as possible.  Demanding sippy cup refill.
9:00a.m. - Sit a spell.  Think about plan of attack for the rest of the morning.
9 :15a.m. - Find mom's iPhone, run the battery down by taking pictures of favorite blanket....at least 75.
9:30 a.m. - Ride Bella like a small pony
9:45a.m. - spend about 10 minutes in time out for riding Bella like a small pony
9:55a.m. - Remind mom how much she is loved with a big hug, then immediately wipe snot on mom's shirt
10:00a.m. - Freak out about location of sippy cup.
10:05a.m. - Continue freak out because mom found the wrong sippy cup.
10:10 a.m. - Mom found the right up, but now that cup causes great fits of anger.  Immediately demand other up.
10:20 a.m. - Color on mom's bedroom walls, beautiful Christmas mural
10:30 a.m. - Spend 10 minutes in time out for the whole coloring misunderstanding.
10:40 a.m. - Put school stuff on and get ready to go
10:50a.m. - THrow fit because clearly it is time to go to school, but mom says not until noon.  Take shoes and throw them at mom for full effect.
11:00a.m. - Eat lunch.  (She is a wonderful lunch eater)
11:30 a.m. - Tell mom how much she is loved.  Then kick her in the knee.
12:00 p.m. - Call mom a buckle.  Then a Bow. Can't get into trouble for calling her those.  But still do it with as much conviction as when the former ahole word was used.
12:15p.m. - Head to school, give mom big hug and kiss and tell her she's the best mom ever.  Make sure and tell her Santa is NOT coming for her, only Violet.  Santa thinks Violet's great.
3:00p.m. - Get picked up by mom at school.  Head to car to wait for James to get out of school.
3:10p.m. - James gets out of school.  Immediately tell him that he is not allowed to look at you, touch your things, or take a nap.  Absolutely NO NAP.  Insist on that with vigor!
3:30 - Maisy and Wyatt get home.  Boring.
3:45p.m. - Yell at Maisy for existing.
3:50p.m. - Call Wyatt a Buckle and kick him in knee.  Threaten no Santa
4:00-5:00 - Fight with everyone as viciously as possible
6:00 p.m. - Sit down for a bit and reflect on the day.  Tell everyone how much they are loved.
6:30 p.m. - Go to room for playtime.  Tell everyone to stay away from you and not to come in.  Insist that everyone quit talking.  IMmediately!
7:00p.m. - Laugh at mom when she says it's time for bed.
8-10:00p.m. -- Continue to laugh at mom about bedtime. Call her a silly Bow.
10:30 p.m. -- Fall asleep in mom's arms.  Pat her on the face first and tell her she is loved.
1:00 a.m.  -  Wake up.  time to start again!
1:00a.m.-3:00a.m. - Argue with mom about how it is NOT bedtime
3:00-6:00 a.m. - Sleep soundly.

6:01a.m. - WAKE UP! Lots to do! Make sure everyone else is up, and that they know who the boss is.


Sigh.  She's exhausting.  It's all go-go-go with her.

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