This Is What Happens…

…when you let your daughter hang out with Paul Wall.

Little Miss & her grills.

Mother’s Day 2008

Just in case you are a Mommy and I did not get a chance to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday…Happy Mother’s Day!!

We spent our day in Richmond, VA and I was not only fortunate enough to spend the entire day with Little Miss, but also with my mom and dad! We had an early dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse, which was incredible. It was my first time and I am hooked! It took sincere determination to finish my Hot Chocolate Cake, but somehow I did.

Braunsteins, Spencers and Slaine at Morton’s

This little one is what made Mom’s Mother’s Day.

It was Mom’s first show so she was very excited to meet everyone and see everyone’s performances. (Daddy is a veteran at hiphop shows, you know.) It was cute to hear my mom tell my dad after meeting Paul Wall, “Awww, he is soooo southern, isn’t he!?” Which, if you know anything about my family…so are we!

Right before the show started- fists together everyone!!

Little Miss danced and waved her hands through the entire show. Since she has been attending almost every show on the tour, she knows her routine by heart. Before her Papa’s last song, she walks out front and is introduced to the crowd and then she’s allowed to go to Uncle Eclipse to play with the DJ equipment.

DJ Little Miss & DJ Eclipse

She’s a natural!

And since that was the last night on tour for Little Miss, we took lots of pictures of her with her tour-pals.

Little Miss & Gu…she can spot him a mile away. (Don’t let this picture fool you, she adores him.)

Little Miss & Rob…partners in crime.

“Who drew all over your head, Uncle Rob?”

She did make time to hang out with the other babies on the tour…here is”Lil Paul Wall.”

Hanging out on the Expensive Taste bus.

Trying to give him a kiss…

“Just so you know…I am the boss of all these buses.”

Now we are headed to the horse farm!!

*Be sure to scroll down for lots more photos from the bus & the NY show*

New York, New York!!

Tuesday morning we woke up in Allentown, PA…ironically parked directly in front of the towns numerous drug treatment/half-way house facilities. (Nothing like some strung out hecklers to start the day off right!) I was looking forward to this day in particular because we had a friend driving in from NY to pick us up right after the show and take us home! It would be the first night we’d slept in our bed, in our house in over a month!

Of course, we weren’t home long enough to really enjoy it. Honestly, it felt like a dream most of the time. Little Miss was confused to no end. She kept looking at her toys in the toy boxes and saying “Baby? Baby?”…as if to say, “A baby lives here? Where is she?” It was cute. She was not thrilled as thrilled as I was about the idea of sleeping in her own bed, in her own room. I tried and tried until I brought her into our comfy bed and made an attempt to bribe her to go to sleep. It felt like the alarm went off minutes after we all shut our eyes. But it turns out that a couple hours of sleep in a real bed, is just as restful as 12 hours in a bunk on wheels.

My hubby had to go shoot a video before the show started, so Little Miss, my MIL and I took advantage of Central Park! We had lunch right beside the park and then headed for the green grass! The weather was gorgeous and since it was a weekday, there weren’t herds of people in the park like usual.

After we walked around for a few hours, we decided to go to one of my favorite Central Park spots, the zoo. I love going to this zoo in particular because it isn’t so enormous. You can easily cover the whole zoo in a few hours and all of the exhibits are incredible. (Plus, the petting zoo rocks!!)

We started out by the sea lions, who were being fed their dinner. Perfect timing!

Then we made our way over to the snow monkeys.

My little monkey…learning a few tricks from the real monkeys. (And trying to keep the sun out of her eyes, it was crazy bright in this area of the zoo.)

As I mentioned, we’ve been to this zoo several times and we always miss the Red Panda. He tends to like to hide, apparently. But not today!

& here’s Little Miss looking at the Red Panda…

My favorite part of the zoo is the polar bear exhibit. We only saw one of the two bears but- he definitely put on a show for us.

“Who wants to snuggle?”

He even got his blankey out…

Check out how big his paws are…and his teeth!!

After we watched Mr. Polar Bear for a good hour, we rushed over to the children’s zoo to get a few minutes of goat/pig/llama/sheep/pig/cow petting and feeding in before the zoo closed. My daddy always jokes on my MIL about pigs because they are a very non-kosher animal. So we thought it would be a cute idea to take a picture of her with the pigs for him. Here you go, Daddy!

Since we were well on our way to getting kicked out of the zoo, I didn’t get any shots of Little Miss feeding the animals. However, she did such a good job with them that the grounds keeper did let us feed them some extra pellets. Here is who we fed…

We had a wonderful day back in NY. Even thought it was a quick trip, it was great to be home and great to spend such a gorgeous day with a couple of wonderful gals in the park!

…see, not all of NYC is skyscrapers.

The show last night was great. It’s very interesting to me to see how different crowds are in each city. Last night was definitely a NYC crowd.

We’re in Worcester, Massachusetts today- and so far the most exciting thing that has happened is that someone came and picked up our laundry for us!

Little Miss, The Biscuit Maker

I have finally had a few minutes to load the latest pictures from our short trip to NC. Almost every night, Little Miss partook in a popular Spencer household event. Biscuit making!!

She made her Bub & Gran'Dad so proud :)

Here comes the good playdough!!

Roll'em, Roll'em

"Ohhhh, this is fuuuun!!!"

"Hmm...no one is stopping me...I'm putting this in my mouth guys!! You suuuure this is okay?"

"It's fun to squish toooooo"

Shenanigans From The Bus

I wish I had time to write down every hilarious thing that has happened on this bus since we've been on it. I'm so grateful that our busmates aren't sick of us...or at the very least, they're hiding it extremely well. ;)

We have been to so many cities across the country- some are much more entertaining than others. Some you would think would be very entertaining (ie: Chicago) but- we're parked where ever the venue for the night is...and sometimes, that isn't in the most touristy area.

Although we are having a great time, it is a challenge to be on the road. Every morning we wake up and rush to try to get showers before the bus driver goes to sleep in the hotel room for the day. Then we make an attempt to find something to eat that is within walking distance. This is a daily frustration. Most people think being on tour is glamorous...pretty people, parties, shows, etc. Drugs, Sex & Rock'n'Roll, baby...not so much. It's more or less, a lot of driving and a whole lot of bad food.

But we love it, just the same. :)

It's a baby...on a bus!!

Did I mention we have a lot of down time?

Rockstar Baby w/her Uncle Slaine

On the road again...driving to the next city.