friday night, our friends opened their deli for the first evening of mingling and merriment.
it was that good-kind-of-loud where you could close your eyes and still “see” the energy from the sounds of friends and catching up and live band music and kids dancing outside under the florida moon and laughter and pizza and beer and babies sleeping through it all (okay, my baby sleeping through it all)…and…all the good stuff that makes a night at a family pizzeria just divine.
we mingled and ate good pizza dipped in the best marinara sauce this side of the mason dixon line…and donna, your place is now christened because i took a self portrait in the bathroom mirror. carry on.
more fun crazy nights at lucarellis to come. they’re now open at night!
and shifting gears…lainey’s room is now back to my heavenly little everything-is-perfect room i dreamed it to be being that the big target rug we put in there while she was crawling has been pulled out and replaced with the original rug i madly searched the internet for while i was pregnant. i love her room. every single nook and cranny is everything i dreamed of. it’s heaven, and now that her little christmas tree is up, i go in there at night with just the twinkly lights on and rock in the big white chair…alone. and i try to remember rocking in that room every night with my big pregnant belly trying to imagine what it would be like…to have a baby girl and love her like everybody said i would. expectations madly exceeded.
oh, and i do believe i mentioned a cute little hustle…
across the driveway she goes, her pixie little legs whisking off to find a ball or to chase the dog or to run and look back to make sure we’re watching to see just how cute she can be. *which we always are.
and finally, despite what “the books” say…
we’re lovin’ our bottle. it’s our friend. all of ours, and we’ll be sad the day our friend leaves our house. we all take turns–austyn & brandyn included– pouring the cold whole milk into it while she waits patiently at our feet, and smiles when it’s handed to her. they have a bond, she and that bottle.
and, this may be random but very important indeed.
if i were five, i would be asking santa for this and this and this.
because, secretly, i am five. and, i’m sorry, but living in a five-year old toy land is pretty darn cool.
oh, wizard of oz is on tbs, and i do think it’s time for some late night couch. seeing as i have seven photo shoots this week, i’m going to make it a point to enjoy all the in-between this week. even more so.
…enjoying the small things. ~k
I m not sure what “migling” is, but I am fairly certain I never “migled” that magical night. I was, as David said, “The Baby Whisperer.” It was so much fun to add faces to those dear, divine friends who were before, just commenters on your blog. Great food, great friends! (It is so very bad to highlight a typo on a blog…but then, it is so dad!)
Kelle… you are simply amazing! Your Dad and all of your friends… you just ooze happy!!!!! Thanks so much for coming and for the amazing Photos!!!! From now on everyother Friday thru season! I have a feeling this will be our new little gathering place, thanks to all of our grat friends!!!!
and for those sweet little black maryjanes… her feet are edible!!!! She is so sweet! How about the youngest set of little groupies I have ever seen!…. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!
or great friends… not grat!!!
Good job, Donna. Correct your mistakes…before my DAD does!
love “ooze happy”…could you get a better compliment?!
love the bottle picture!
love ’em all!
Well Kelle, since it seems everyone is coming out on your blog, I figured I’d might as well too. I’m Tammy and I’ve been a stalker on your blog for about six months 🙂 I am April’s big sister, and we chat about your blog like you are a part of our everyday lives.
Love your pics, and they way you so eloquently write (something that I am so not good at!).
I look forward to your post everyday, they are a daily reminder, to enjoy the everyday things.
Oh, and about the bottle – my kids all had them (at least their last one at bedtime) until it was time to potty train! And, when the time came, they gave it up easily.
I feel the same way about bug’s room. And I wonder how many giant pregnant ladies rock in the empty stillness wondering, anticipating just how their lives will change forever.
I know I did. And my expectations also madly exceeded.
i feel the same way about cora’s room. and stella’s prior. same room…totally different decor created in anticipation of the new baby. i never took the time to take pictures of cora’s yet. i’ll have to do that.
Those pictures are amazing!
love the pictures!
and i watched wizard of oz on tbs too!! love it!
can’t wait to see you at christmas!
~tessa
ps. that interior design studio thing for 5yr olds is so cute! i want it!
jk
LA-OVE the bottle pic, all lucarelli’s pics-I LOVE THAT PLACE!!!, and of course, that bathroom picture!!!
lainey’s little skirt-so cute!!!
you really do work some kind of special magic with that camera.
xoxo
ps. becks still takes a bottle (gasp). yup, my dirty little mommy secret is out in the open.