Bwa-ha-ha!! I'll keep you guessing for all time with my sporadicness (this is my blog I can make up whatever words I want!).
Anyway, I think I've deprived the world of cute photos long enough....
As you know (I'm assuming you track these posts despite the sporadicity! See? It all starts with nouns and then the next thing you know, I'm making my own adverbs!), Auntie Sonya was here for a couple weeks and with a boldness/courage that only naivity can breed, we took all the kids to the Philippines for a "relaxing" vacation. What a great 5 days of sleeplessness that was! Ok, it actually was pretty beautiful and sunny, and sandy and oceany and all of the other ingredients that make a great vacation - but I'm not fooling about the sleepless part. I think Joe was up around 3:30 every morning, whereas Laurel just said to heck with all sleep in general. Fin was a real lazybones and never got out of bed before 5am though. Sleepyhead!! Needless to say we are all the first at the breakfast buffet every morning.
Mmmmmm... the breakfast buffet... I should have taken photos of that! It was AMAZING. That's all I can say - words wouldn't do it justice...
Anyway, the days were great and the nights were long. I guess that's holidaying with little ones.
I keep meaning to post this little genderization vignette from bedtime with Fin about a month ago:
The Scene - Fin and I laying in his bed talking before he goes to sleep.
Fin: I like rockets.
Me: I like rockets too!
Fin: No!! YOU like hearts. And flowers. And Butterflies!
Me: Ok, but I like rockets too.
Fin: NOO!! I told you already!! YOU like FLOWERS! and HEARTS!! and BUTTERFLIES!!
Me: Um, ok, I sure do like flowers and hearts and butterflies.
One night later, same scene.
Me: Hey, Fin? I really like cars and trucks and rockets.
Fin: NNNOOOOO!!! I TOLD YOU LAST NIGHT!! YOU LIKE FLOWERS AND HEARTS AND BUTTERFLIES!!!
Much in the same vein, he has been on a big kick about what is for girls (well, in Fin's words "grils") and what is for boys. Pink - girls, blue - boys, etc, etc. Fin was telling me that he has a peanut, Joe has a peanut and daddy has a peanut (I'm sure you can guess...) but Laurel doesn't have one. "You should go buy one for Laurel mom".
Work is going well. My contract was extended for another 6 months with a view to going permanent. Now that I'm on the "other side" of the whole law office dynamic, can I just say how incredibly IRRITATING lawyers are??? One of the partners actually told us (the business development team) that he wants us to be like a nagging wife to him. Otherwise he won't get any of the biz-dev (see? I'm such an old hand that I even speak the hip lingo now!) stuff done. WTF??
In other lawyerly news - Steve belongs in the Guinness Book of Lawyer records for his 120 hour day last week.
Need I mention how much we are looking forward to our week in New York? No, not because of the awesome museums and the cool shopping and the delicious food and our wonderful friends. Because of the hours of uninterrupted SLEEP!!!
Ok - I'm outta here. I made a rash promise to make Thomas the Train cupcakes with Fin since we are stuck inside on this Typhoony ( hey, I told you, my blog, MY words!) day. For those with an insatiable appetite for typhoon trivia - this is the earliest start to the typhoon season seen here since 1949!
