L’Shana Tova!  Happy New Year 🙂  I hope everyone has a happy, healthy and SWEET new year!

Speaking of sweet…my baby used to be sweet.  Then she got sick.  Now she’s a sourpuss.  all. the. time.  Her fever is gone (or was yesterday) and she has a rash covering her whole torso.  I thought this was roseola, but thanks to Grandma, now I don’t think that anymore!  She said the roseola rash is different…FABULOUS.  I love unidentified rashes on my baby that make her the exorcist…NOT.

Miss A got dressed for the holiday last night and we went over to Grandma’s house for Rosh Hashana dinner.  Special guests included Auntie E & Aunt D.  Before we left I tried to get some pretty pictures of my baby in her adorable outfit with a smile on her face.  FAIL.  Here’s how it went down…

Miss A hiding from the Momarazzi!

Oops! She caught you!

"Can I touch the light?????"

"PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEEE"

Miss A refusing to take a photo with her Mommy

She put herself in a time-out!

Finally!!!! I got her!!!!

Happy ETC everyone!

We have had some visitors this week.  The kind of visitors that you wish lived here all the time!  Our friends the G Family are really the best.

We had a nice morning at the beach the other day when the weather cooperated and gave us some sunshine!

AG was able to get this photo of me and Miss A…she was eating goldfish…as usual!

Embrace the Camera people!

Hi everyone!

We had a great opportunity while evacuated from Irene to capture something I don’t think we’ve ever been able to capture in A’s 16 months!  Our WHOLE family!

Mommy, Daddy, Baby A, T & M!

Thanks Auntie H for letting us crash at your house while you were in NJ!  We had an awesome time there & can’t wait until you guys are home for the fall!

Join Emily in ETC!

In a real case of Mommy brain – I forgot that today is Thursday!  I guess anyone who reads our blog will get 2 posts today!

Here’s a photo of me and A that we took to send to Daddy while he was away in Las Vegas last weekend.  We wanted to remind him of what was waiting for him at home!!!

Missing Daddy!

Good morning ETCers!  Today’s pic is a Daddy embrace!  A little sneak preview of our CT weekend trip that I’m going to post later on.

Ready to do laps!

How was that last weekend already?!?!  Time is flying!  This weekend we’re hoping to make it to the hamptons with our cousins.  Right now A still has her fever & we’re going to get her to the Dr. to make sure she’s gonna cool down soon!

Wishing everyone a fantastic Thursday!

My little girl loves SHOES!

I was trying on a pair of gold espadrilles that I bought a while ago and never wore, so that I could see how they would be to wear to a wedding last week…when like a stealthy jaguar, A attacked my feet!  She pulled and whined and then threw an on the floor tantrum until I took the shoes off.  She then promptly stepped her tiny chubby little feet into them and looked at me with such victory!

"Mommy! I think these shoes are perfect for the wedding!!"

I couldn’t help but try to snap a pic of the 2 of us, 2 shoe loving girls!  Sadly, A wasn’t in the mood for a picture, she wanted to test these shoes out and run and dance!  But I got a blurry shot that I love 🙂

We apologize to Daddy in advance for the shoe habit that Mommy will be enforcing 🙂

Happy ETC everyone!

I heard the greatest quote from someone ever yesterday.  It made me laugh for hours.  “You can’t pick your friends!”  Uhhhhh lady…..if you don’t pick your friends, who do you pick???

Your FAMILY!?!?!

Auntie E came to the beach with us the weekend before last and we had so much fun!

It is photos like this that keep me smiling on days like today when I’m just plain old in a bad mood!  Do you ever have days where you just don’t like anyone?!  Where you just want to go on a vacation from the people you know and love?  I try to stay positive all the time, but today I just can’t seem to do it.

This SAHM thing is really hard.  I used to work for my dad, and as I sit here & think about it, Miss A just might be more demanding and thankless than my dad was as a boss!  I miss adult conversations.  I miss conversations that weren’t interrupted by things needing to be done for a child!  Its been 15 months of baby centric life and there are days that I love every second, like the last 3 weeks….and then there are days like today when I want to throw my hands up, throw my head under my covers & stay in bed all day!

Instead of dwelling on my bad mood, I’m going to appreciate this ETC day & use it to remember that my life is awesome.  My little girl is amazing and spirited and as funny as they come.  I’m going to remember that there are people out there going through WAY worse than SAHM boredom.

Please, everyone who checks out this blog today, read Daniel Bobis’s story & help in any way you can.  Its this story lately that has me feeling guilty for this bad mood.  So I’m gonna snap out of it, and go play with my daughter & hope that her future brings as much light to the world as Daniel’s does.  He must have some very proud parents.

A little snuggling at the family party!

She was absolutely hilarious by this time of the party…running around like a loony!  Mister LK and I think it’s really funny when she gets into that mood!

Happy Thursday everyone!