The perfect day

I don't know what it is about 2 1/2, but I love it. Vail is so interactive and fun and hilarious. She makes jokes now, laughs with glee, and smiles from ear to ear in the most adorable way. Just makes my heart sing.

I started today by going into NYC for Book Expo. Finding books for summer reading prizes, meeting authors, publishers, and just being in the zone of children and teen lit was a wonderful way to spend a day of work. Didn't feel like a job at all.

I returned home to Chris who brought me out to dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant and he gave me a pair of gorgeous Tiffany earrings to complete my set of earrings, necklace and bracelet. I was so stunned.

Then we picked up Vail after dinner, headed to Cliff's for ice cream. Played in the "woods" at Cliffs and returned home where I read "How to Dinosaurs Say I love You" to Vail - her first personalized book signed by an author and illustrator.

Amazing day.

The best of everything.

Days of being sick

I am so happy that Vail is back on her feet and raring to go. The fever broke last night on its own and she was her busy self today. So energetic and it was great that she can get back to herself. Happy. Active. So what's a mom to do? Where does my little fashionista want to go? The Mall. So we left Daddy-o to work and we went to the mall. Vail loves the mall and she is SO good about leaving all of the things she wants to bring home and saving her requests. SO good.

When we got home, it was off to dinner, which she is really not interested in eating lately. She sees dinner time as a time to perform and to boss us around. Tonight she wanted to sing "please and thank you" followed up by calling her a "Little Buggy". Little buggy, please eat your ravioli. Little buggy, please don't drop your apple. Little buggy, please keep your feet off of the table. Not Vail. Just Little Buggy. Does she like buggies. Oh no. Every stray piece of hair that brushes her skin is "Little Buggy".

So funny.

Poison ivy ick

At my pharmacist's suggestion I picked up Ivy Dry for my horrendous poison ivy outbreak. Goodness. I have never had such a horrible reaction to poison ivy. On the bottle of Ivy Dry, it compares a severe poison ivy outbreak to a chemical burn. Well, it looks like I have a chemical burn on my neck and I am amazed that it has gone so deep. This is sure to scar and I've done everything I possible can to prevent spreading, aggravating, everything. Most of all, I have tried my darnest to keep it from Vail, I would never want her to have this. Ugh.

But today Vail is home with a fever and feeling cruddy. It seems that everytime I realize that Vail is doign well and without illness, she gets something. So frustrating. I am just hoping she doesn't have Hand Foot Mouth disease again, as it is going around her school. That was horrible last time.

In her fever naps today, I read The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot. Gotta love Meg for make-me-smile reads. Nothing at all like Alice Seybold, but I guess it is just writing for a different kind of day. But I have to admit, this book kept me reading. For me to finish two hundred pages in 14 hours, it has to be good.

So blogging does not come naturally into my day, even though I have tons of fun little anecdotes, I just don't make the time. But I am going to try harder.

We brought Vail fishing this week. Let her wave the fly rod. I think that we just need to get her a little one because she has quite the knack for casting. She even cast mine into the river a few times. I think that as she gets older, she is going to be more comfortable with the outdoors, but right now, she is following up days outside with nature with dreams about giant spiders chasing her. Her imagination is so vivid.

On our expedition, while we did not catch or even see any fish, we did witness a black bear. Vail was much assuaged when she learned it was a baby bear, even though it was probably a yearling and much bigger than a baby, from our vantage point it didn't appear to be scary. I feel so blessed to have a husband that is outdoorsy and willing to take her on januts and trips and adventures. She has seen so much for her 32 months.