-palooza

I'm feeling a little blue today. Boyfriend-palooza is over. After over two weeks vacation, my boyfriend was back to work today at midnight. That means I'm back to seeing him only 3 times/week (if I'm lucky). It's brutal. To combat the sadness I felt yesterday, I spent the day in a veritable baby-palooza, starting with Declan and June (my best friend's babies) and capping the day off with Gianna, Rosa and Anthony (nieces and new nephew). As he is only one-month old, Anthony (pictured) is the least entertaining of the bunch, but he sure is a cutie. He's one of those babies that is so clearly a boy- no need to deck him out in blue for everyone to know his gender. And with a 2-year-old and a one-year-old at home already, my sister is happy to see that Anthony is a well-behaved little sleeping machine. Rosa and Gianna were adorable as usual, and Declan can't stop telling me about the Sox game he went to a month ago. I told him someday he is going to hate me because I'm a Cubs fan, but for now he can't get enough of me. He's not even two yet, so it's pretty funny that he's already obsessed with baseball, particularly the White Sox (he hoards the remote control and flips through the channel saying "baseball" over and over again). He's one of the few people in this town who can genuinely say he did not hop on the bandwagon when they won the World Series last year.

One more baby note: One of my very good friends from college had a baby boy last week. Charles Jon. Isn't he adorable!?