Back In My Baby's Arms Again

So after nearly two weeks, Josie, Cory and I are all home again. Both Cory and Josie called it an early night, and I am just so thrilled they're back. Two weeks is a long time without those guys!!!!

Not much to say but wanted to post some photos of the homecoming. She started out in a very cute outfit that was Minnesota-weather-appropriate but not San Diego-weather-appropriate.


She was just delightful all day. I really missed that bug of mine.









Okay the photo with the hat is totally cliche but it's still cute...right? I hope so.




Even Ruby was happy to see Josie!

Josie and the Llamas

Some might think that "pussycat" is the logical animal in that sentence, but they would be so wrong! Josie is with nanna and boppa in Minnesota, while Mama continues to dedicate herself to whatever it is that she does and Daddy is in the UK helping foreigners to legally invade I mean immigrate to our great nation. So, naturally, while in Minnesota Josie visited a llama farm. Of Course!! So I am the proud mama with photos entitled "Josie Llama 1" through "Josie Lllama 3" on my computer. Sweet!

Here is the report from Nanna: She warmed up to the llamas, LOVED the chickens, and HATED the horse - she cried every time we turned towards the horses. Really afraid, so we avoided them, even the cute little pony. :( At 1:20, she is currently laying in the crib talking about something and clapping. Hope she sleeps...

Givin it up for the single mamas

Duuuuuuudddeeeee....so I had a teensy weensy taste of what it is like to be a single mom and I gotta tell ya, it is some seriously tough work. Cory went out of town for like 2 days. By the time he came back I was a) exhausted and b) so thrilled that I'm lucky enough to have a dependable partner to help me raise my kid(s).

So here's the routine: get up at 6, shower, get dressed, feed myself, feed the dog, pack josies lunch (little portions of carrots/cheese/pasta/whatever into tiny tupperwares, thermos of milk, snacks), diaper bag full of diapers/wipes/spare clothes (she came home naked a couple of weeks ago), go upstairs, change josie, get her dressed, find shoes, get her fed (time permitting, if not pour some milk for the car ride), get her, lunch, blanket, favorite bear plus me and my stuff (purse, work from the night before, my lunch, etc) into the car, drive to daycare by 7:30, drop her with people, give instructions, report on poops/other diapers from the morning, sneak out so she doesn't fall apart (not for her, for me! i can't stand to leave her when she's crying, there is just something about my cells that won't physically let me do it), drive to work, work like a madwoman all day, try to remember to eat lunch, pack up work to do that night, make all the calls and do all the in office stuff that has to get done by then, get in the car, back to daycare, get a report from the people there who have spent all day with your child and make a beautiful effort to make you feel like you had a part in it, give you the food/poop/nap report (critical!), take her home, try to get her to interact with you when clearly she spent all her juice at daycare and just needs some downtime and has no energy at all and doesn't find you altogether very interesting, put her to bed, downstairs, clean up the kitchen from her dinner, wash all the tupperware thingys, have a bit to eat for dinner, upstairs, log on to the computer, work till 11, go to bed.

Wake up, repeat.

It's just insane. I don't know how people do it. So give it up for the single mamas.

Baby it's Hot Outside

This is the week every year that we just melt. We don't have air conditioning. And it's like in the 90s and humid. Miserable weather. So every day after Josie gets up from her siesta we go to the pool and cool off. First, of course, we have to have a little snack:

Here are some photos of our trip today. As you can tell, she thinks that her Daddy is just hilarious.

She did really good today - did great bubbles, kicked a little, splashed her arms around. Not swimming just yet, but making progress. All in due time...

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Pete and Repeat Are In A Boat

No new photos today but a story about 'phinny. She likes to repeat stuff. Like everything you say she tries to say after you. She's really good at it too, and when she gets stuff right she is just overjoyed. Like last night at dinner she said "bean" and "pasta." She said yellow all day yesterday. She can really say anything, it's pretty amazing. She even threw me a bone and gave me a mama.

She continues to be waaaaay into fish. Luckily on my last business trip they sold fish tub toys at one of the stores in the airport, so I scored big time with that one. Of course they were the Nemo fish. I wish that there had been regular fish tub toys, not just celebrity fish. I hate the whole character thing. Why do all fish have to be Nemo? He's just one fish. I hear you, he's a special fish. But lots of fish are special, not just Nemo! And the last thing we need is a bunch of branded logo wear that Josie wants just becuase they only had famous fish at the airport. Rrrr.