I'm just back from our first vacation as a family. Taking a nine month old, newly teething and for added fun, going though her first cold (or illness, as it just happens), to board a plane 1,000 miles due south was a little ...what's the word, I guess anxious? But she handled the flight well and as it turned out, when Operation: Snot Rag was finally completed, and after Tooth One and Tooth Two finally stop taking her to the mat (moreso the newer, Florida-born Tooth Two, the bitch) AND she figured out that Napping is RAD! and so is not waking up at 3:45 a.m.!, it turned out I could fall in love with my kid all over again. The phrase "like woah" really doesn't do the feeling justice.
I have more photos of her than I'll ever need from the trip, but here's one I took that just that when I look at it in the right frame of mind, I tear up.
We had a fantastic time relaxing in Florida. It was a much needed break from the cold, the back to back (to back to back...to back) snowstorms we'd endured and the 9-5 gigs and the daily grind of the walls here, and as much as that is true, I am glad to be back home (although hoping we dodged the last of the snow which we avoided when we were away) but maybe a little sad to be putting my flip flops back in the bin I store them in, since I know it'll be more than a month or so before I really get to wear them regularly.
Until then, I have a disk full of pictures to keep me warm.
She's so beautiful.
Posted by: roo | April 05, 2011 at 10:39 AM
I'm glad the vacation turned out to be such a good one. And I sgree, she's beautiful.
Posted by: -R- | April 05, 2011 at 02:07 PM
Oh, those eyes and that little sweetheart mouth! What a lucky Mama! And as a fellow citizen of the great Commonwealth, I have to admit that I FORCED myself to wear sandals on Saturday when the temp dare to reach near-60...a failed attempt at mind over matter thinking, I guess.
Posted by: Lauren | April 05, 2011 at 03:03 PM
So, so beautiful.
Yay for the opportunity to get out of the cold and get a little sun....
Posted by: elizabeth-flourish in progress | April 05, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Thank you all for the sweet comments on the girl.
Lauren- the day will come, right? It always does...right? No really, I'm asking (please say yes). A sunny, 70s Spring can't come fast enough. Glad we got away from the snow- I think that might've pushed us over the edge if we were here for it.
-R- yeah, glad the trip started tough but then took a hard upswing ending on a high note and not the other way round. For a first trip in the gear-heavy stage, teething, the cold, unpredictable nature of babies/kids, this trip had the potential to make me pretty itchy.
Elizabeth- Yes, oh God did I need the sun (and a ton of SPF). I have some funny videos of me & Mike doing pool "Dancing with the Stars" and various cheerleading stunts (note: I was never a cheerleader, so...). If you can overlook the less than appealing visual of me in a swimsuit, maybe I'll post one.
Posted by: JenfromBoston | April 05, 2011 at 09:08 PM
What an innocent look, she hypnotize you with her eyes. Sure are real those pictures, looks to beautiful to be true, you melt on your feet when you look at her. I put her on my desktop :D
Posted by: Miami refractive surgery | April 12, 2011 at 08:38 AM
Hello. And Bye.
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