Birthday Sleepover

 

I'm a lucky girl this year, my birthday May 9th landed in the middle of the week so I felt celebrated all week long. Dinner with girlfriends, lunches, park playdates, sweet gifts and notes. I'm very blessed to have such wonderful people around me.

My husband knowing, my birthday weekend always falls around Mothers Day, knew I wouldn't want to be away from the tots on Sunday so he took me to a fun Vegas overnighter Friday night. We flew down mid-day with these 2 wonderfuls (pictured below, Jodee and Rob)

and we had a great old time. We stayed at the Cosmopolitan again, my new Vegas favorite. 

(love any reason for Vegas jewels) 

We did all my favorite Vegas things Early tapas pre-dinner at Jaleo, followed by excellent seats to Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian (did you know its ending there in Sept, so hurry and go!!) 

 

I got to sport my new gorgeous clutch from Lindsey, Jodee and Court all night.

 

Then after Phantom we hit up a new sushi spot at the Cosmo Blue Ribbon Sushi, I thinkit was good, nothing incredible except the toro.

In my mind Sushi Samba and Nobu jut cant be competed with. They are too amazing.

But it always fun to try a new place.

 

Saturday, we shopped (Eric did even a teeny bit, his eyes were glazed over at Saks for the entire 15 mins, but progress is progress. He's wonderful. I got to hit the oxygen bar, which is my favorite for the Vegas headache I always get from second hand smoke (ew people) Then Jodee and I got massages at the Cosmo spa which was delightful.

Then we hopped on the plane back home and were home in time to kiss our kids and tuck them in and be in there in the morning for Mother Day. A perfect weekend.

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lucille

Let me first start of this post by making 2 points.

1. Lucy's name is not Lucille. I get asked all the time since its her "in trouble" name

2. the photo above might be my favorite photo of my kids. ever.

I thought to get back to blogging, I better start with a post of something I am excited about. And there is  not much that gets me more excited than my youngest little chickadee. And use the word "little" fairly loosely, as there is not much "little" about our Lucy Lu.. 

She is big talkin, big tricks, big thighs, big smile, big personality.

And we love her so much.

Since she has changed so much over the past little while, I thought I'd document some Lucy-isms.

Lucy has no "off button" she pops right up every morning and is pumped about it, and hits the ground running. Always wakes up with smiles and animated greetings for the rest of her family who prefer to wander around in sleepy silence for the first 15-30 mins of the day.

If you pull out your phone, a ipad, a camera, or anything that even remotely looks like one of these things, she immediately poses and says "chee chee cheese"

Speaking of cheese. Chuck-e-cheese. Its her favorite. Favorite word to say. Favorite place to talk about. She has only been once but it made quite an impact.

She has the best bikini bod for miles. And cant get enough pool time.

Obsessed with those cheeks. 

 

And this one is for Grandpa Jim Kandell, we are bathing Ohio-style these days. In the pool.

 

She is obsessed with Elmo and Elmo's World. Frequently she is yell-singing at the top of her lungs "Dats Elmo's Werld"and when I got her these sesame street "elmo/zoey" shoes she insisted she even sleep with them. and I love her for being this excited about a pair of shoes.

 

This photo is of Lucy visiting her babysitter Brookey after Brooke got her tonsils out earlier this month. When we got to her house, Lucy walked right over to Brooke's bed, lifted the covers and climbed into bed with her. Brooke was immediately healed.

 

  

When Lucy was about 9 months old, we started calling her mischievious alter-ego "Gemma" when she was making messes or being crazy, the kids and I would say "its not Lucy, its Gemma" or "uh oh Gemma is here" These days I'd say most days are Gemma days, so much so that we've given up on it being her alter-ego and just embraced Lucy's true busy-body self.

 

With Ady and Max in school, dance, soccer, swim etc. I get plenty of alone time with Lucy. I am loving having this special time with her. We have our own adventures, visits to Grandma Meema's, shopping trips. park visits, and cartoon in mommy's bed mornings.

Its the best time. Her happy little spirit just makes my day better.

I love you Miss Lu.

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{crickets}

{mothers day 2012}

Thus far 2012 has been a bust for me documenting the comings and goings of my ever busy and growing up to fast family. I was too hung up on getting caught up on past things I had missed. So scratch that, Im just gonna start fresh, if I make up some old posts, great. If not, Oh freakin well. 

So here we are starting fresh. Does everyone look old? Including me? I had a birthday last week, creeping closer and closer to 30 and I hate it.

So, hopefully this post isn't another empty promise. Even if no one reads this blog, I am coming back for the sake of documenting the people I love.

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