31.

yesterday was my birthday, which means, despite all logic and sense of the time/space continuum, it is also now august.  i am 31, and it was a really great birthday.  i got sick on tuesday (barfing, always a ton of fun.  thought it was food poisoning, but i think it was more likely a little stomach bug that lots of co-workers' kids have had), and it latched on to my wednesday a bit as well.  but, we went to bed super early wednesday night, and i woke up feeling much better on my birthday. 
justin made breakfast for the three of us.  i had a busy day at work but had lots of great distractions with calls and texts and facebook posts.  i left work and picked up emme and we headed to meet jb for an early dinner at contigo, a rad restaurant we've been wanting to try.  there was a brief setback at school when ek decided she wanted to pick up all the crumbs and gross leftover food on the floor and eat them before coming with me to get in the car.  no, thank you.  anyway...she made up for that by being the sweetest little bug at dinner and singing happy birthday to me many, many times.  her version of happy birthday sounds like this: happy....day!...yooooouuuuu.  in the right tune, but she leaves out a few syllables here and there.  she also prefers to say happy birthday to emme, but we did get a couple of mamas out of her.  hilarious.  the food was delicious - lots of taster plates - and dinner was topped off by dark chocolate peanut homemade ice cream.  it was heaven.  justin spoiled me as usual (how am i such a terrible gift-giver, married to such a fabulous one?), and we spent the remainder of the evening being ultra-lazy laying on the couch and watching the olympics.  a very different kind of day than my 21st a whole decade ago (whoa), but exactly what i was looking for. 
anyway...i snapped a couple of pics of emme yesterday and today that i love.  she is such a sweetheart these days, and i can't get enough of her little voice and her hugs and her insistence that we read "green ham sam" 54 more times.