<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">We've been back from Luke's fourth birthday extravaganza in Turks and Caicos for a week now.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And Miss Nat still has her sparkly pink dolphin tattoo.   Well some of it.
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Her friend Grace woke up day two of the trip without it. Came off in the shower. But Natalie still has remnants of her tattoo.  
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The dolphin may only have pink sparkles on the top of it while the rest is only an outline of the temporary tattoo because of her suntan.  But the dolphin is there. And Natalie is holding on tight. Protecting it from a pretend tuna net called soap and water.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I found out this morning (from her father) Miss Nat doesn't want the area to be washed at all.  Which caused me to let out an early morning "Gross girl, you don't want man eating bacteria to wake up and start eating your arm alive."  
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Now I think I meant flesh eating bacteria (a la <em>Cabin Fever</em>) but I'm not sure why I even said anything like that to my five and three quarters year old but I definitely said it.  It may have had something to do with sitting through <em>Bride Wars</em> (definitely going to become a classic) and eating both honey wheat pretzels and Samoas last night.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But back to the flesh eating bacteria that is absolutely positively going to take over my daughter's left arm region. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Let's just hope that doesn't happen within the next few hours. Because in an hour, I'm off to take Miss Nat to see Grace for their mini Diva manicure appointment at Dashing Diva.  Think I can get them to put some of that antibacterial <span style="text-decoration:line-through">gunk</span> gel on her arm that they give us before we get manicures?  Just to keep the flesh eating bacteria at bay until we get back from Brooklyn?
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Freshly manicured fingers crossed.
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><strong>Next stop – </strong>Tomorrow is the <em>Give Mom a Martini</em> book launch party for <a href="http://www.savvymommy.com/content/view/49/67/">Lyss Stern</a> at The Plaza. I plan to leave the office and go directly to it. Should make for some interesting pink carpet photos considering it's supposed to rain all week. Sugar melts people. Sugar melts. 
</span></p><p style="background: white"><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><strong>Car Song</strong> – <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70AgyIEnBRE" target="_blank">Halo</a> by Beyonce  "<span style="color:black">You know you're my saving grace.</span>"</span></p>