"If you don't see the book on the shelf, write it." ~ Beverly Cleary
Our last night ‘out on the town’ ended like this at 10 PM:
A couple weeks ago I had an opportunity to take some pictures of our friend’s daughter, Jenna, and her cousin Kailey. Jenna’s dad, Jeff, is a friend of Barry’s from their preschool days. The story goes Barry sucker-puched Jeff because Jeff wouldn’t share his Valentine’s candy. This is only funny now because Barry no longer punches people and Jeff would share his candy in heartbeat.
It was a blustery cold day and poor Jenna had enough by the end of it. Kailey is like Maggie and hardly gets cold, so she was happy to do wind-sprints around to keep busy. I’m no nugget expert, but I’m quite certain that both girls qualify as nuggets. Cutie-Patooties!
I’m loving that more opportinites are presenting themselves to me in terms of photography. Thanks to Jill, Krissa and Myrene for being adventurous with me that day!
Check out Jill’s blog here.
Here are some of my favorite images from the day:
And we’re back. This morning Barry and I were practically high-fiving each other as Maggie sprinted up and down the hallway singing, yelling and making demands to be picked up. Our baby is back and we’re super happy about it. Cue the ‘let’s get pumped up’ music…which is more like put on the James Taylor Pandora station…either way, we’re happy to let you know that ALL of Maggie’s sass is back.
She isn’t missing any of it.
Our weekend was full of Chaya’s jazz concert, visiting with Barry’s parents, Erin and her family, and topped off by meeting up with a bunch of friends to celebrate Kurt’s 30th. Both Barry and I were a bit apprehensive about having Maggie out to dinner with us, but she did great. I hardly ever carry a “baby bag” but you better believe that I packed a bag and had a bunch of tricks up my sleeve. The stickers that I brought were the biggest hit and Maggie was able to methodically put them on her cup of water in a very orderly fashion. (You think I’m being sarcastic? The girl had them in a SUPER straight line all the way around her cup. She’s organized (or Type A) just like her papa!)
We’ve been playing a game that goes like this:
Me: Mags, are you a nugget?
Maggie: Yeah. [head nodding]
Me: You are?
Maggie: Yeah [smiling & more nodding]
Me: Okay. Well, is _________ a nugget?
Maggie: [depending on the person] NOOOOOOO….. [face scrunched up and extending the ‘oooo’ sound as long as possible.
It feels funny to really like to hear her say ‘NOOOOOOOOO’ because I know the day is coming very soon that I’ll wish the opposite. We figure that being a nugget is a good thing and from what we can gather if you’re in Maggie’s good graces, you get to be a nugget.
We took Sydney to the vet last week after we discovered a little lump on her chest. We’re still not entirley sure what the lump is, but we were also informed that Syd has an ear infection….in the same exact ear that Maggie had hers.
Barry and I felt (still feel?) like the worst dog owners/parents possible. I told Barry that we both need to go get our ears checked too because maybe we ALL have ear infections. Either way, Syd’s got drops for her ears and I can’t say that she enjoys them. Poor girl.
I’m off to go do something productive…..quietly because THE NUGGET is sleeping.
And you never want to wake a sleeping nugget.
Trust me on this one.
