Mother's Day... yay me!

I really felt like I EARNED this day. Birthdays have always felt special, but now I feel kind of entitled for having been celebrated just for existing. The one being born doesn't do all that much work, let me tell ya. In fact, I now think my birthday should be more about my own mom than me because she worked a hell of a lot harder on that day than I did (though to be fair, I was three months early, so I worked pretty hard to stick around as well). On Maya's first birthday, I plan on having a party for her during which she smears cake all over her face, but then I'm having a party for Anil and me. Cause we will have earned a celebration of that year. (And again, to be fair, Maya deserves a party for being continually smushed into my pelvis for three hours while trying to be born.)

So, Mother's Day. The first thing I did was sleep in! Anil took Maya and Bailey outside to play, and I slept till 10:30 for the first time since before giving birth (unless you count the first couple of weeks when Maya would sleep until 10 or 11 a.m., but since she would have been up until about 3 a.m. and then every three hours in between, I don't consider that "sleeping in," or really sleeping at all). Then Anil made me breakfast.

My request for the day was to take Maya on her first swan boat ride. So we headed out to the Public Gardens, all bundled up. Yes, like in layers and coats. You never know if the New England weather will cooperate with any given plans, so we've learned to adapt and make it work. It helps to be stubborn. For our anniversary one year, I planned a picnic on the Esplanade complete with champagne, then that day, that day in JUNE, was cold and misty with rain. But I wouldn't give up; we just wore fleece and guzzled champagne in an attempt to stay warm. In this case, we got out Maya's fleece bunting that we thought we were done with, and I got out my down vest that Anil got me in size medium that I thought I'd be done with (um, not because of the weather though--I just thought I'd be able to zip up my size small by now!).

Here's the story on pictures though. My mommy brain that thought I'd charged my camera battery was mistaken, so we couldn't take my super awesome camera. And this after my mom sent me a beautiful frame for Mothers Day for this swan boat picture that I was already obsessed with taking. We thought we had it covered though. Anil gave me a pocket-sized video camera that morning. It's like the Flip video camera, but seemingly better. It's got some extra features and, get this, can be used in the water (because Anil thinks Maya will catch her first wave this summer, surfing before she can even crawl). I wanted an easy camera like that to take random videos (and yes, post them here!) of things I wouldn't get out the "real" video camera for. Like Maya hiccuping. Stay tuned for that; not even kidding--she's so loud people stare at her in restaurants. Anyway, this video camera takes still photos too... but apparently they're very very close up. So most of the photos Anil took are of half of my face and the top of Maya's head because he wasn't far enough back.

This is the best we got. Kinda feels like you're sitting right next to me, huh? Sort of uncomfortably close?



Here's the first fruit of my Mothers Day gift, check it out! Be wary if you're prone to motion sickness though. We learned from this that the camera works best if you hold it in one place as opposed to waving it around panoramically.