MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!

I stayed home with Court these last 2 days because her babysitter is in Mexico visiting family on a much needed vacation. When she gets back, I am seriously giving her a medal. This stay at home mom stuff is soooo hard. It's definitely been great spending time with her, but I think it's made her more clingy. She's already been suffering from separation anxiety these last few weeks and me being with her constantly these last few days is making it worse, I think. Oh well. It's just a phase. Though it is hard to hear her say mommy like 3000 times a day for everything, it feels great at the same time because she just loves me so much.

I went to the mall with MY mommy today and with Courtney and it was hilarious. Three generations of Alexander women tearing up the stores! We took her out of the stroller and she proceeded to run around Macy's like a child possessed. She went from makeup counter to counter and banged on the glass, looked at her reflection, pointed and said "baby". She was pretty excited. But when we made her stop she threw the biggest fit. She's gotten pretty good at those temper tantrums. She threw a big one in Target. She threw herself on the ground and flung her head back. I barely caught her time before she hit the back of her head on the hard ground. I've become one of those frazzle looking moms with a screaming, misbehaving kid in the mall. I can't believe it. I feel sorta bad for judging all those other women just like me for all those years! I have newfound respect for mothers everywhere!

Then, we bought her an outfit (rewarding bad behavior) at Gymboree. We got the skirt and shirt, so of course, we had to get the matching sweater, hat and socks! $85 later, we got the most beautiful outfit that she will only be able to fit into for the next 6 months. Money well spent.

As promised, attached are a couple of pics from her b-day party. A couple of weeks laterI am remembering the party being much more fun than I originally reported!