A Series of Events - Tale #2: Mother's Day

Once upon a time, it was Mother's Day. We went to church (where the picture below was taken),



I got flowers,


and we went to our favorite creperie for brunch, where we basically ate dessert for our meal. (Ever had Black Bottom Cupcakes? To die for.)

Sophia loves that place, as you can see.


What you can't see is the cute white sleeper she is wearing with the tiny pink and purple flowers on it. And she might never wear it again. :(

Art's parents came over, and Sophia greeted them with a huge poo-splosion that has forever stained that beautiful sleeper (despite my efforts to get rid of that large yellow circle in the back).

They took us to a Chinese buffet for an early dinner. Art's mom LOVES her a Chinese buffet, and was happy to be able to take us to one again. My hating Chinese food while I was pregnant was really hard on her. ;)

Art didn't get me anything for Mother's Day at that point because every time he asked me what I wanted, I told him I didn't know. Well, what I wanted was for Sophia to sleep through the night, but that isn't something he can control.

A week later I remembered my Amazon wishlist, so I chose four items from there as my belated Mother's Day gift. I got three books and one DVD. Two of the books cost one cent! The DVD was less than two dollars, and the last book was around $7. And then there was shipping, of course, but that's quite a lot of entertainment for $24, and it will keep me busy for some time.

So what did Sophia get me for Mother's Day? The fussiest evening of her life. Oh well. Her early birthday gift to me made up for it. Which is a story for another post.

And that was my very first Mother's Day!

A Series of Events - Tale #1: A Trip to Seattle

Once upon a time, a few weeks back, we had to drive down to Seattle to the Dept of Homeland Security so they could take my fingerprints and my picture, because my greencard is up for renewal. I was really nervous, because it's a long drive, we had to leave early in the morning, and I was afraid we would be dealing with a very fussy Sophia.

But she was great! She slept almost the whole way down, waking up just as we were arriving at the USDHS. I managed to pump a couple of bottles for her as we were driving, and hoped it would be enough.

Art dropped me off, I went inside the building, and he drove off, with Sophia, to get some coffee. I prayed that the process would go quickly, and that she wouldn't put up a big fuss (because the bottle just isn't as nice as direct from mommy).

When I was all done and Art returned to pick me up, he said she had taken half of the first bottle and was perfectly content!

After that we headed back to the coffee shop (and to a little market nearby) so we could get something to eat. Then we went to the park (as pictured below). It was one of the first nice spring days we had, and we made the most of it.


I tried to capture Mt. Ranier in the background.




We wanted a cute picture of her among the pretty flowers. She couldn't appreciate the effect.

After spending a couple of hours in the park, soaking up the sunshine (and attempting to make my very first daisy chain, which kept breaking), we headed to...a mall. I'm trying to remember which one, but there are a lot of malls. This one had a P.F. Chang's restaurant in it, which is one of Art's favorite restaurants. We had a late lunch there, then headed home.

We probably should have gotten an earlier start, because we ran into rush hour traffic. (Rush hour starts early just north of Seattle.) I was out of bottles by this time, and even though I had just fed Sophia before we left, she started fussing right as we were coming to a crawl. I told Art to bear with the crying as I quickly pumped one side, frantically got it into a bottle and into her mouth, and hoped she would be satisfied with it long enough for me to pump the other side.

I needn't have worried. It ended up being enough for her, and as we slowly made our way out of the traffic, she fell asleep, and didn't wake up until we were almost home.

All in all it was a really great day. Everything worked out wonderfully, and now I'm just waiting for my new card to arrive in the mail!

Summertime!

We are finally getting some proper summer weather around here. We've been going to the park almost every weekend. This weekend we went twice!

Sophia seems to enjoy it. We certainly enjoy trying to make her as cute as possible. These flowers are from a magnolia tree.





I hope that wherever you are, you too are enjoying beautiful summer weather.