Going beaching
It has been harder, and harder and HARDER (yell that last one) for me to leave this baby. I'm working on a way to spend more time with her. I'm doing all I can. I know it's hard for everyone to balance wifeness, motherness, and workness, but I think the fact that they are all separate locations makes it a little more complicated. Woe is me.
Heading to the beach! Hooray! Virginia beach! Last time I went, I was 5-ish. I think it was my first time going to the ocean and I was certain there were sharks everywhere. All I cared about was pretending to be a mermaid. But then a wave took me out and I drank my weight in salt water. I decided a post-sea-witch-mermaid was the way to go from then on and I happily played in the sand.
Bye!
Your my wonder wheel
Coney Island
I missed the money shot by 2 seconds. The shot where Adeline looked at me with pure glee.
Bike ride and central park lounging
Las Vegas
where i live
my tootsies
my tootsies in different shoes
I'm dying to get piper outside to take some of her. holgas do not work indoors.
Labels: coney island, holga
sometimes piper smiles
big...
huge!!!!
p.s. i hope she forgives me one day for passing down the cheesiest, goofiest smile on the block to her.Labels: monkey frog, piper jane
thank ewe
Jake works with a woman who leaves the country more than I leave the island of manhattan. she always has piper in mind and brings her something adorable back from her travels. Piper has scored a penguin from chile and several sheep from ireland (and a bunch of other toys from places i cant remember). this one in the picture melted my heart. look at it peeking its little curious eyes over the edge of the tiny bag. so cute! i keep narrating its thoughts every time I walk by. plus it is only about the size of my fist!
Did any of you know that jake is good at yoyo-ing? he keeps talking about walking the dog and other nerd yoyo tricks. haha
mother, do you think they'll like this song
It's my madre's birthday today. Hooray! Jake, Piper and I love you and miss you! Hope your day is awesome!also, a special prize goes to whoever knows where that quote comes from. a bigger prize goes to anyone who knows what the title of this post is quoting. HINT: one is from a movie, one is from a song.
*ps to be honest there is probably not a prize
Piper Jane's addiction
There has been a little bit of drama with piper visits. They aren't letting non-parent visitors in until the swine flu calms down. There is a baby in pip's unit (and 4 in others) with it and you should see the actions they are taking there. It's a little comforting that blythedale is so careful, but poor timing because miss terrah came all the way from california to meet piper and they wouldn't let her in! I sobbed until they agreed to 10 minutes, but I was still a smidgen miffed.
On the bright side (there is always a bright side), the coney island mermaid parade is on saturday! Hooray!! I have a nice little group of friends to go with and I am quite excited. Quite. I missed out on it two years ago and after last year I have vowed to never miss it again. One day, I think I'll be IN it! I just have to go all out with my costume and theme. I'm hoping Erin will come visit and join me. Maybe a siamese sister mermaid thing. Hhhmmm
If you'd like to see some strange things that you never thought possible, please come along! My favorite float from last year? Marine Antoinette.
Oh yeah, prepare to see scary tattoos and a few boobies.
Maybe more than a few.
i can myself do it
i've got an itch and only diy projects can scratch it!
I am wearing red lipstick today.
They are. I have heard "labios rojo" too many times for it to be a coincidence.
On my mind
I might die if my lunch doesn't involve avocado.
It has been raining for two months in new york with few breaks.
Christa and Terrah are coming to see me tomorrow from dc and california.
Most nights my dreams are about vampires playing sports.
Piper was so cute standing up by herself in that video jake posted.
We still haven't decided where we are taking a vacation. Probably Brazil in November. Jake, you need to renew your passport.
Once I saw a homeless man wearing a Bratz backpack. Another time I saw a homeless person wheeling his belongings around in a bugaboo stroller.
I got a decent haircut for once.
Most of my recent DIY projects have been failures.
I can't get the "mother lover" digital short out of my head. "Imma be your syrup you can be my waffle"
All of byrdie's head feathers grew back finally after the other birds assaulted her. They also threw both of the eggs out of the nest. Have I mentioned the fertile grove our apartment is?
I hate every single song on the radio.
I joined facebook.
Noah Scherf is one of the cutest babies I know.
I bought shades eq for $4.50 per bottle in las vegas. It costs $17 per bottle here at ricki's. I feel like that should be illegal.
This post is lamer than I expected.
I hope something cool happens soon like maybe someone will give me a million dollars?
Fun with the scherfs
Make me a super model
Branden won make me a super model. i just watched the finale. I am so happy!! you know why? Branded loves his mother. In every episode he would talk non-stop about how proud his mother would be of his photo shoots, catwalk, progress etc. It was so adorable! There was a challenge at Bloomingdale's and all of the models got a bunch of money to spend there and Branden bought a suit so that he could impress his mom when he went home. THEN, the final three got visits from family and it showed him trying his suit on for his mom! It was so sweet! Anyway, I'm happy he won, Hooray for an 18 year old boy giving a hard working mother the credit/love she deserves!
Labels: cute stuff
P is for piper, that's good enough for me.
It was one of those very busy visits with Piper today. She made me earn my snuggles. By the time I finished suctioning her, changing her diaper, cleaning up her throw up, suctioning her again, changing her bedding, changing her clothes, suctioning her again, changing her trach ties, silencing her vent, suctioning her for the 6th time....you get the point. I was a little overwhelmed + tired to boot. It was worth it in the end. Piper wanted to play, play and play some more. We stood, we smiled, we snuggled. We are bff. Hooray!
And don't make fun of Piper because her hair looks like she lives in whoville instead of blythdale. It was driving her and myself crazy so I pulled up in the fastest pony I could because she kept swatting my hands away. She is getting so strong! For some reason her pony curled the wrong way and her nurse was calling her Alfalfa.
ps today I was rocking out with Piper when I suddenly noticed her looking suspicious. I looked over the side of the rocking chair and saw this:
Piper totally tried to sneak out that hole!
Labels: mother in smother, piper jane, pony tail
the day that almost sucked.
Things started looking up when...
I was going to a clients apartment to do her hair and I noticed a missed call from a 706 area code (Georgia). I was pretty sure it was a wrong number, and even though I was right, the message they left me would have brought the lowest of spirits up:
"hey sis, I'm just calling because....we all miss you terribly. You are just wonderful and I wanted to check in. I love you."
How nice was that? Thanks stranger! I'm sorry it was the wrong number, but I'm sure the real person you were calling didn't need it like I did. So, thanks sis! Whoever you are.
Then, when I was at my beautiful client's apartment, who is a set/shoot stylist for the designer Bottega Venetta, she told me she had gotten a new handbag and would I like her gently used one? Yes please. and thank you. It's so beautiful. It looks similar to this beauty, but without the embellishments. And the flap goes down all the way. Otherwise, it's the exact bag.
I still can't believe it. Some used Bottega bags sell on ebay for $2,000! I'm going to look like an imposter carrying such a nice bag with my lowly clearance rack duds. At least I'll feel fancy!Last but not least. Piper certainly did not dissapoint. The minute she saw me, she reached for me to pick her up while flashing me the most adorable crooked toothed smile I've ever seen. Every time I tried to put her back to suction her or use the bathroom, she'd immediately start crawling toward me to get her back out. I don't even know what I did to get her to sudennly like me, but...Hooray! She likes me! Yay!
Labels: my lucky day, Piper loves her mama, running
grandma sue and papa (and pip stuff)
here is Piper discovering glasses.
These are the cupcakes I made for the little party. I made lemon and Billy's vanilla recipe. Then I made these silhouettes of the prettiest little girl I know to stick on top of them.
here is pippy and papa again. my dad kills me. also, you'll notice on the table a cupcake and a two dollar bill (thanks ellen!) that we couldn't get Piper interested in.
Piper and Maebe playing. And by playing I mean Piper tapping Maebe's face and head.
We were lucky to have Adeline and Stella around to help Pip open her presents. We love these sweet girls!
Pippy and grandma sue. Hooray!
Clingy
I don't want to jinx anything, so let's keep this between us......Piper loves me. She loves me so much, I can see it! She wants me to hold her all the time and is now reaching for me, crawling to me and climbing up my arms and chest to get me to pick her up. What an amazing thing! Do you have any idea what that is like? You probably do. Doesn't it kick-a? I like to think of it as an evaluation to my parenting and Pip is just letting me know that I passed.Let me document that the first time the reach/crawl/shirt-climb up mama's chest happened was May 11th 2009. It is now happening often and I can't stop thinking about it. Sometimes a little reach/crawl/shirt-climb up mama's chest is all you need to feel like everything is going to be ok. So what that it took 2 years to get a little feedback?
The only downside is that this new clingy-ness makes me never want to leave her.
Labels: piper jane, Piper loves her mama, snuggling
