We had such a fun day yesterday.

First, I had breakfast with my friend Kate. Jill even made sure it worked for us to leave the King at home, so I got to go out unfettered.

Then I came home and did a photo shoot of The King.

You can take the Mommy out of Wisconsin, but you can’t take the
Wisconsin out of the Mommy. (Plus, what’s not to love about the only
socialistly owned major league sports team in the US? That’s right, the Packers are not owned by some rich jerk, but by the people of Wisconsin. Many of them, anyway.)

After The King’s photo shoot, we tried our third bottle-feeding.

Now I understand why people gave us bibs. He dribbled and drooled and generally soaked the whole top of his cute little Green Bay Packers outfit. I’m glad I did the photo shoot first! (When nursing, The King almost never drools or spits up. I’m a lucky Mommy.)

Then we went to visit some new friends in the neighborhood! J. and K. are friends of Levi’s Moms, but they live 5 minutes from us! Their toddlers, Jr. & Mini, are some of the most adorable, sweet little ones that we’ve ever met. Jr. into trucks, which we couldn’t provide, but Mini is into both ducks and hats, so The King’s duckie hat was a big hit. We can’t wait to go play with them again soon.

After we came home and installed The King in his intravenous baby crack swing chair, where he promptly fell asleep for 5 hours, our friend Jennifer came over for dinner and to work on monologues for the Big Audition with Mommy Jill. (The Big Audition is Tuesday. Please hope that Mommy & Jennifer break their legs!)

Dinner and conversation were great, as was monologue review (at least as far as I could hear from upstairs), and then Jennifer helped The King continue with bottle practice. She was way better at it than I am, with the exception of a false start at the beginning that shot milk all over, including up The King’s nose.

Sadly, The King did not repeat his long night of sleeping again tonight. We were up at roughly 2, 5, and 8 am. But it was worth it. (It will be more worth it if I get to take a nap.)

Fruit & Veg Count, Last Few Days: Last night, we had Chinese, and I had some mu shu veggies. I know, cabbage > gas = bad, but I LOVE mu shu and haven’t had it in ages. I only had 2 little pancakes of it. The night before, we had baked sweet potatos, mmmmmmm. And I had a non-dairy veggie pot pie for lunch that day too.