Wednesdays = My Favorite

I love, love, love having Wednesdays off with my little girl. She's napping right now.

We had a busy weekend. Made a family grocery shopping trip on Friday. Ran into a former co-worker and got to show Carina off. Always fun.

Saturday we walked in the "Walk for Life" to benefit our local pregnancy center. The weather was great, we walked 2 miles and Carina slept. Got a free t-shirt, water bottle and Chick-Fil-A sandwich coupons! Peter & I raised $175 and I felt pretty good about that.

Later in the day we went to Petsmart and then to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. A carwash was being held to benefit the pregnancy center. It was free but for every car washed an apartment complex was donating $5. Peter took his car. I cleaned the house a bit. Made brownies. That was pretty much our Saturday. Oh - and we watched "Wolverine" too. A great movie that lead to an interesting dream about Will.I.Am.

Sunday we all went to Sunday school, church, lunch and a Sunday school meeting. I can't believe Carina lasted 5 straight hours at church. It's not exactly fun for her. She managed to get in a nap and a couple good feedings. She was a little cranky for the rest of the day though and I think maybe she didn't eat as much as normal at church just because it was different. Who knows.

Last night Peter watched Carina while I got my hair cut. I came home, fed her, then met up with 3 of my 4 college roommates at Messiah to play in the creek a bit. It was a very nice girls' night out. Carina slept all evening while I was gone - lucky for Daddy.

Carina is constantly learning new things and it never ceases to amaze us. The sweetest thing today was when I sat Carina on my lap in front of Sesasme Street for a moment while I opened the mail and she was laughing out loud at Elmo and Grover. It was absolutely, heart-meltingly adorable. I told Peter and he said she has good taste (the love of Grover is an inherited trait from her father).

South of the Border

Yesterday we took Carina on her first interstate trip. We visited Peter's grandma Yoder in Maryland - about 90 minutes away. Overall is was a very successful trip. Carina was well-behaved in the car, as usual. We ate Chick-Fil-A on the way down and Carina ate once we got there. We stayed about 3 hours, fed Carina again and headed home. She was still asleep when we got home so we took her out for a walk in the stroller. After 3 hours in the car and 3 hours of sitting and visiting we all needed to stretch our legs.

This morning Carina was very well-behaved for Sunday school but started kicking up a fuss about 5 minutes into church so we just went home. Our church has a parenting room for fussy babies, nursing mothers, etc. and eventually it will be equipped with AV feed of the service but it isn't quite ready yet. I would have liked to stick around and hear the service in the parenting room but since that's not an option yet I figured I may as well miss the service from home instead of missing it from church, haha.

Tomorrow Carina turns 2 months old! We have our two month pedi appt on Tuesday and we can't wait to see how much she has grown.