How to really love a child

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I ran across this the other day. It was a good reminder for me. I have found that I am easily distracted from some of these...like just being there. I'm working harder on really 'being there' when Lily and I are having play time, etc. I always have my phone out reading emails and blogs and stuff. I need the constant reminder...children really are miraculous!

A Birthday--Mine!

Wednesday was my big quarter century Bday. I wasn't expecting much out of the day since our trip to Greece was my present but my Dad came and stayed with us and made it a really great day!

(Flowers and pregnancy pilates from Dave)

My Dad and Debbie were amazingly generous with me (as usual) and gave me a double bike trailer so I can pull both my kiddos! It also has attachments to make it a double jogging stroller! And to top it off they also gave me a bike trainer so I can ride inside for the rest of the winter!!

(Lily loves her new bike)

We also picked up a few of these delicious babies!

(This was probably my fav: Strawberry cheesecake!)

(The candles: 11001 = 25 in binary. Anyone who knows my dad will get it.)

And with a fun lunch with my mom at Dear Lizzy, it turned out to be a really fun day!

Make Up Artist

Lily has taken to doing her own make up while I get ready in the mornings. She wears more than I do!

If you look closely you can see foundation, eye shadow, eye liner, mascara, lip stick and green highlighter pen...of course all of that is on the lower half of her face. She doesn't believe in make up on her eyes.

Greece/NYC (part 6)

I don't have any pictures of our last day in Greece. We spent the morning working on Dave's Harvard essays, then hit up a big shopping center near the hotel.

On our way home, we had a layover in New York so we extended our stay so we could visit Dave's sister and her family and spend some time in the city for a few days. I only took these two (awful) pictures with my phone. They are from our visit to the Statue of Liberty. We also hit up a Broadway show called In the Heights--very fun. We also went to Mesa Grill--that's one of Bobby Flay's restaurants for anyone who watches Food Network--and he was there hanging out and cooking in the kitchen! That might have been our favorite part!

It was a great trip even though it was wicked hard to leave Lily for so long. And maybe some day I'll get to take a trip when I'm not ginormous and pregnant for all the pictures! ;)

Greece (part 5)

In winter most of the Greek islands shut down. But we were able to find a nice one that was still up and running: Hydra.

Greece (part 4)

Another old stuff day! We hit up the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was the center of the city back in the day. It's where the Senate used to meet. It's where Socrates and his buds used to hang out.

(Temple of Hephaestus)

We also hit up a few museums.

(These are ballots that people used to cast once a year and whoever got

the most votes was exiled from the city.)

(A Spartan Shield)

(Gold death mask)

(Random pretty marble vase!)

Greece (part 3)

The next day we hit up the big site of Athens, the Acropolis. We started on the South Slope. WARNING: Lots of really old stuff.

(Theatre of Dionysus)

(Odeon of Herod Atticus)

(Entrance gate to the Acropolis)

(The Parthenon!)

(Erechtheum)

(View of the Acropolis from the new Acropolis Museum)