Things to Do Before Work on Monday - UPDATED

- Get pants hemmed (done March 29)

- Buy GO train ticket (found the old one - woo hoo!)

- Wrap head around the fact that I am going back to work after 13 months off (still working on it)

- Remind Nanny that Eilish is the most precious, smartest, funniest, perfect baby in the world and must be told so 40 times a day (put off until Wednesday)

- Figure out if the kids are still wearing make-up to work (yep, they sure are)

- Remember how to apply make-up (I'll get back to you)

- Stop crying about the fact that I'll be getting up even earlier now that E sleeps until 8 (this one still burns!)

- Stop worrying that Owen is going to take Eilish out in public wearing striped shirt and plaid pants (dude, I've got bigger fish to fry)

- Make chart for Nanny so that I can know what Eilish did every minute of everyday including bowel movements (done March 30)

- Sync iPod (as we speak)

- Make and freeze a lasagna (done and done)

- Remember pass key PIN (I got nothin')

- Figure out who will have the pleasure of buying me lunch on my first day back (still up for debate)

- Try not to cry (already did, tonight after dinner)

Funny Things Eilish Has Done This Week

1. Danced to 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon
I was on a Carly Simon kick this week after reading an article about her in Vanity Fair so I popped in her Greatest Hits and went directly to #5 - You're So Vain. Eilish was standing up at the coffee table and her left leg just started moving. She does this kind of bendy thing with it to the beat of the music and ducks her body towards the table like it's a bar and she just finished an ill-advised shot of sour apple - like she's her Mama's child. I thought it was a fluke until I put it on today before Owen left work and the dancing started again. Owen plays music all the time but it's mostly very deep music so E usually just sits in his lap as they contemplate world hunger or whatever Bono is bitching about these days. But not Carly, oh no, Carly moves her.

2. Played 'Where is Eilish' with Mama & Daddy
After her bath this week, in an attempt to keep her laying on the change table as opposed to trying to catapult herself off, I put part of the towel over her face and asked 'Where's Eilish?' to which she pulled the towel off and laughed one of her laughs. She then put the towel back and as I was getting ready to ask 'Where's Eilish?' she started what could only be described as mutter to herself, like 'she's never gonna find me here', so I called Owen in and we dragged the question out to see if the muttering was a fluke, 'Where is Eilish Daddy? I swear she was just here a minute ago...is she under the bed, is she in the closet?' And she muttered the whole time. It might not be reading as funny as it was because I swear y'all, I almost peed my pants.

12 days until I go back to work...mutter, mutter.

Happy 1st Birthday Baby

From this:

To this:

And it only took a year! Thanks for the laughs, the tears and the love. Mommy & Daddy don't know what they would do without you. You are the funniest, coolest, sweetest kid we know and we are so glad that you're ours.

How about a cookie for dessert tonight?

OK, OK some ice cream instead, now stop giving me your Baby Clint Eastwood look.

Love Mama

This is the place where Eilish:

- gets dropped off while her Mama gallivants off to the States for a little (A LOT) of shopping with 2 J's and an A

- is carried around like the Queen she is for 24 hours

- shares her toast and chicken nuggets with her Poppy

- gets all dolled up to go shopping with her Nanny & Poppy to buy a new chair

- gets put in the corner in said chair after 'jawwing' at her Poppy

- climbs the stairs

- rocks her MUN shirt

- charms the pants off her Uncle Joel - literally

- plays in the empty bathtub

- has her own crib

- tires her Nanny & Poppy out so much that they are in bed shortly after she hits the sheets

- needs a few different jammies because sometimes Nanny & Poppy can't figure out the zippers

- changes clothes a few times a day if the grandparents think she's uncomfortable in her cords

- learned that whatever happens at Nanny & Poppy's stays at Nanny & Poppy's

- has to have a little rest because charming these Kennedy's is hard work