Halloween - Hells Kitchen Style

Sandy and cancelled school won't keep this crew down. They were ready and raring to go. So we went out and did a little trick or treating at the local stores in our neighborhood.

This is the first year that Fia realized that she got candy. Game over.

Many thanks to our seamstress extraordinaire! Auntie Meggy is a magician!

Silly Sausage

We are in the age of true silliness:

- dressing up
- acting like monsters or dinosaurs
- making elephant trains with imaginary trunks and parading through the apartment
- dancing and singing to any piece of music, or theme sing
- playing hind and seek very, very badly
- telling loud secrets

Three is an adventure! Though because everything is so imaginative, she needs a partner to play along. So Antony and I are often wiped out at the end of the day, and negotiating with her to go to sleep.

She is also feisty. Like being-put-on-time-out-10-times-in-four-hours feisty. She is an independent soul (favorite word: self) who knows what she wants. Makes it quite difficult to be the boss!

But you look at this picture and its hard not to melt. This is just what she's like, 85% of the time.

Summer loving - Loving Summer

Gotta love summer. Fia is playing at the park nearly every day, splashing in and out of the dirty NYC fountains. We have also spent a week in the Catskills region of upstate NY with friends, enjoying the weather, good good and drink and excellent company.

Here is Fia getting into the hot tub. Watch out... A week on the beach is coming up in early Aug.

Father's Day

Despite being a bah-humbug about Father's Day (and holidays in general), Antony did enjoy his day of glory. Here's to the best Dad I know.

Mother's Day

Everyday should be Mother's Day, right? Shouldn't the joy of motherhood be thanks enough? Hugs, kisses, smiles, giggles are all amazingly wonderful but I have to admit that having a "special day" all to myself is pretty awesome. And I milked this one for all it was worth: massage, a day of brunching in Central Park, and several incredible gifts including a new iPad (business expense, of course).

This means Fia has inherited my first generation iPad. (It's pretty gross that a toddler has her own "papatch," as she is known to call it. But that was the luck of the draw.)

And going back to my day, I was really treated like a queen, which isn't that different to most other days. Thanks guys.

PLEEEZE

This is a cute video of Fia and her partner in crime, Max.  She recently told me that Max was her best friend but Beckett was her boyfriend (the boy to the left of Fia in the group shot from the previous post).  Beckett's mother said, "Well, she already prefers the bad boys."  Too true.

Growing up

Time flies and Fia is getting bigger, and older, and more of a little girl every day. She has started to love tea parties, using a very miniature china tea set. She still has a passion for treats and in one photo sports a red frosting face. She also has tons of friends from school who she sees around the neighborhood. So imagine a cool chick riding around in her stroller smiling and waving like crazy, saying hi to her people on the street.