our girl

I love my daughter.  She has helped us experience India from such a fabulous angle.  It's true, we didn't get to see the Taj Mahal, or really anything else outside of Chandigarh.  We stretched her one day, and went to Shimla, and she threw-up the entire way there from motion sickness...  We are adventurous parents, but we also are learning that we need to very much respect Violet's limits, and it just wasn't going to be possible to hop on a train or plane for 5 hours on a Friday night to see the sites on weekends, staying in budget hostels, only to have to return for Tyler's school on Monday.  We will come back to India some day without a work schedule, and things will be different.
This trip was interesting, to say the least.  It literally felt like we just moved our life here for 3 months-- watching and managing and enjoying our ever-changing toddler, the way we do in Seattle, but with an India twist.  Figuring out the every-day life of being here --how to buy milk that is safe for a toddler, how to deal with diapers, how to create some sort of normal day-to-day routine in a place that is so far from our normal life-- it has all been a fabulous wonderful challenge.
And Violet has done terrifically well.
A few photos of our lovely little traveler...