boots, blackberries and baby ben

Today was literally the greatest day.

My little baby Ben that I nanny has been in the pediatric ICU for the past two weeks and I haven't gotten to see him because I've been busy with his sister and running errands. So sad. This morning that changed and I had a couple hours to go visit with the gingerbread man. (That's my weird nickname for him. His sister's nickname is even weirder.) Oh my goodness I started crying when I walked into his room. I have missed that little guy SO much and the second I walked up to his little bed he heard me talking to him and just stared at me with his big beautiful blue eyes and started fussing until the nurse came in and got him out so I could hold him. We cuddled for like an hour and he spent three quarters of it just looking at me. The poor little man has so many tubes going in and out of him so it's pretty miserable but he still managed to sneak me some smiles. Babies are just the best, I swear they make everything so much better.

After my precious visit, the rumble-roar (Told you it was weird) and I headed over to the beehive tearoom. Now I was a bit nervous because I wasn't sure if that place would be her cup of tea. (No pun intended wocka wocka wocka) Holy smokes that girl adored this place! She was dancing around our table the whole time while occasionally stopping to munch on her scone or petites four or her flower shaped pb & j or her millions of berries. She had like two sips of tea but she looked so ridiculously adorable holding her cup that it didn't matter if she didn't even try it. I tricked her into leaving after sitting there for over an hour and we walked to the cute antique stores on Broadway. Did I mention it was the best day ever? That wasn't even the end of it- we ended up going to Decades and she helped me pick out the most amazing vintage dress that I of course took home even though I'd never have anywhere to show it off. At the end of the day I got to come home to my beloved Bandit and my much needed NyQuil because I'm afraid I'm coming down with something. I think perhaps my body just couldn't handle so much bliss in one day.

So now I say goodbye world, hello NyQuil + Pushing Daisies and thank you for the lovely day.