Sorry for the lack of pictures lately. Ruby has been sleeping terribly poorly and so I'm just beat. Last night was the worst night ever--she woke up every 45mins until 11pm and then she was done for the night...about 7 hours before I was wanting to be done with the night!

Granted, poor babe has a snivel and so that didn't help. And this morning I discovered purely by accident (while swinging her by her legs upside down, to her delight, so she had her mouth open in a big wide grin) that she has a top right tooth coming through, so that explains much of this past week.

And I guess the upside of being so exhausted is that when Ruby finally fell asleep again at 2am I had no problem sleeping sitting up for over an hour.

So, the picture above: yesterday my wonderful friends Mary & John visited from Lynn (outside of Boston) with their amazingly energetic and funny little girls, Marie (in picture) and Anna. I did take more pictures and would have posted one with Anna too, but I'm a tad disorganized (my camera battery died on me while downloading the pictures). A picture of Anna will follow!

We had a great time, my grumpiness (boy, don't I get to blame everything on sleep deprivation?!) notwithstanding. John is a yard sale addict, so we popped by one at a church first. Then a necessary stop at a playground for the kids and finally we walked through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where we also had lunch. And they left us two huge boxes full of clothes and a few teething toys which we put to good use right away!