Hey everyone!  I wanted to give a "shout out" to my friends who have an amazing bike tour business in Paris!  They are the best guides around and have really cool bikes, plus you get French wine with the tour!  Check out their website and spread the word to whoever you know that is coming to Paris!   

  Our friend Nancy brought Maisie some little miniature Crocs (they are actually Airwalk brand because Crocs don’t make them that little).  I don’t really think Crocs are that cute and definitely not flattering in the least bit, but they make great around the house shoes and Maisie looks SO cute in them!  I have worn these Crocs out a couple times and I was a bit shocked at some of the looks I got from the women here.  It was very obvious they were talking about my shoes!  They do look pretty funky, not small and dainty like most women’s shoes here!  The funny thing is, Crocs are starting to get more popular here.  I haven’t actually spotted a French person wearing them, but I have seen them in the windows of some of the young trendy stores in the Marais.  I wonder if they will actually be bought!

Today Maisie proved her womanhood.  She rolled over.  Twice.  Actually, we got it on video twice, but she did it three or four times.  This is how I know it was on purpose.  She is such a little stink stink.  We met up with some old friends (well, old for Paris) today and Maisie got a good cuddle in.   I miss these friends.  Their work called them to Africa, so they are far from us now!  They were my fellow West Coasters (as in, California).  Seriously, I love you East Coast, Southern friends, but there is definitely a difference!!!  Maisie will not be respectful and refer to people as "Mr. or Mrs."  Sorry, I am just warning you all now!  Hee hee hee.  She will also probably say, "frick" at the young age of two.  It could possibly be her first word.  We will see.  My nephew used to say,…

There is hair everywhere!  I can’t handle it.  I just can’t!  I am in the post pregnancy stage where one begins to shed their hair.  I am scared I am not going to have any left if it keeps falling out at this rate.  It is everywhere.  In the bathtub, on the bathroom floor, living room floor, well, on every floor!  I also find them in annoying places, like wrapped around Maisie’s little hand.  I am scared one will get wrapped around her neck and strangle her during a nap.  Ok, not really, but I swear these hairs have a mind of their own finding themselves in all sorts of places.  I have never been much of a shedder.  My friends in college, now THEY were shedders.  No offense girls if you read this!   But seriously, they would shed something that looked like a dead mouse.  Ew.  Mine is still…

Today Maisie made me cry.  She has the power to do that sometimes.  After she was nice and full from eating, I just sort of cradled her in my arms (which she isn’t letting me do much anymore now that she is a big girl) while I looked around on the internet.  I thought maybe she had fallen asleep because she was so still and so I looked down to find her staring at me.  As soon as we met eyes, she smiled the biggest smile ever.  It made me giggle as well as tear up.  Sometimes I think she knows how much she is loved, but I doubt it as I never knew how much I was loved by my mom till Maisie was born.  The weird thing is everyday I think I couldn’t love her anymore than I do that day, then the next day rolls around and…