Happy New Year!

Robert, Emily, and I had a very relaxing New Year's weekend -- so relaxing that we have almost no pictures to prove it. But Emily has a New Year's Resolution: to be more silly in 2007; she was way too serious in 2006.

Friday morning Emily woke up with a runny nose, but we packed up and headed to Tupelo for the Ireland family Christmas get-together anyway. Emily got to play with her cousin Anna Kat some more, and she got checked out by Robert's uncle, the pediatrician. It turns out that Emily apparently got an ear infection for Christmas, so she's been a little under the weather but still in fairly good spirits. She just naps a little more and hasn't been sleeping great at night. But we're pushing through with some medicine and lots of TLC.

Here's Emily in the swing that Santa gave her. We've been spending a little time outside swinging every day since Robert hung the swing on Sunday. I think she likes it!
I've decided to give up my attempt to work part-time from home; it's been too hard to try to fit work in with Emily, so I'm now a full-time stay-at-home-mom and a retired lawyer, I guess.

Finally, here's a little video of Emily laughing at me in the kitchen; she didn't laugh nearly as much once I picked up the camera to tape her, but it's still pretty cute, if you ignore the silliness of the Mom.