Viva, Revisted

I need to add an addendum to the Viva Fashionista post to explain how we came to have such a large collection of Viva the Dress Model shots. You might be thinking that since she's a girl we go for Pretty Girl shots and with the boys we take Action Boy shots. No! No! That's not it at all.

It's the timing of the photos. Viva started walking almost two months ago. She thinks walking is the coolest thing ever, so she spends the majority of her waking hours walking around, wandering from room to room, flitting from table to chair, stopping only briefly to play. The dress shots are all photos of Viva, The Wanderer. It's hard to get a photo of her doing anything else, but opa (the photographer) occasionally does.

Here are some rare nonwalking shots that he snapped over the past month. First, here she is playing with some toys and reading.





Viva (in my opinion) is harder on books than the boys are. She doesn't look at them so much as play with them, bending the pages this way and that way.

Next she's playing with the ride on vehicles. Usually she pushes them rather than rides on them.



Now she's outside having fun in the yard.




Isn't she a real charmer? We sure think so. Except for when I have to drag her away from the kitty food bowl for the third time in five minutes. That girl is very persistent. She doesn't like having her agenda messed with.

And, finally, here she is relaxing with a bottle. She hasn't figured out how to drink while she wanders around. I'm sure she will.


Okay, I thought that was the final shot, but I think this one is so cute that I'm adding it, too.