Sun 7 Sep 2008
First Excursion
Posted by Liza under You May Be A Winner, The Real Live Girl
First, CONGRATULATIONS to Casa AddProb, on the birth of baby Teddy! And to Casa Lost a Sock on the birth of baby Marin! It has been great sharing a pregnancy with both of them — a second one with Jen, and we are so glad that hurricane Hanna didn’t mess with her birth plan. Also we are thrilled that Marin and Molly are healthy and hope Marin will be good at this independent breathing thing very quickly!
Josie and I left the house today yesterday! And I don’t mean just stepping outside the door and into the front yard.
Noah’s other grandma is here visiting, so he was once again happily distracted.
Josie and I went to the Sleep is for the Weak book signing at the Beehive Coop! It was great. We got to meet Rita and Mir (whom I have been stalking since she moved south), and see Kristen (also a recent stalkee) for the first time since BlogHer 2007. All 3 women are charming, smart, and gorgeous, in case you were wondering!
We won a door prize including a totally adorable hand-knit mermaid doll and an awesome t-shirt for Noah. Plus I bought a super-cool new diaper bag. (They call it a messenger bag. I call it cool, funky, useful, and made from recycled materials. Plus 10% of the profits go to protect gorillas. What more could you ask for?)
Noah covets the mermaid doll, but lucky for us, he has a monkey by the same company. And is easily distracted.
By the way, if you have a lot of cash and a baby or young child you need to buy a present, these BlaBla dolls are great! They are soft, cute, funky, and fair-trade produced by Peruvian artisans. But not cheap.
Josie slept the entire time, snug in the moby wrap. Everyone got to sniff her head, and Kristen’s toddler son got to see “baby!” a few dozen times. It wasn’t until I unwrapped her to get back in the car that I realized she’d peed buckets all over my dress.
Other than that, it was a great first trip out. And to make the day even better, Josie seems to have gotten the idea of night and day, confining her long stretches of being awake to between 7am and 11pm. Best of all, she is reliably latching on to eat!!! Even if it is every 2 hours all night.
Yawn.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
We went to the book signing too! It was awesome to meet the ladies and have them sign my already dog-eared book. We got there at 630 or so so we got a door prize too! Totally awesome blabla lion (Charles) and Ghandi shirt for Tommy. I think in part Tommy walking in carrying his dirty blabla cat Cloud (purchased at a weak moment in pregnancy when all I was seeing were pink cats or blue dogs and I was thrilled, being a cat person, to see a blue cat) might have swayed them a tad to give us a bag.
Anyway, congrats on a successful outing! I almost asked if you had been there. They told me it mostly local bloggers who came out for the event.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Hooray! That all sounds so great and wonderful. I am sad that I cannot be there with you all, although it sounds like things are under control. Hugs to everyone!
September 7th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Who can complain about being stalked by a week post partum mama and her sweet baby girl?
You’re a rock star for coming! Looking forward to getting together!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:25 am
It was awesome to finally meet you, Liza!! Josie is precious and you should be the poster child for stamina. One week after giving birth I considered it a good day if I had enough energy to produce actual tears while I wept.
Also, I’m very proud of myself for not pinching the baby to wake her up. I’m not going to lie, I considered it. (She would’ve wailed, and then I could’ve been all “Oh, here, let me hold her for you….”)
September 8th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Congrats on getting out of the house! And on Josie of course. Sorry I’m behind and late with the congrats. I’m glad everything’s going well.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Sounds like a great excursion pee or no pee - Josie’s cover was blown though - in Rita’s post about the party — and . Does sound like a great event. I can’t go (or couldn’t go) to the party here because it was on Shabbat.
The photos look great; I hope I get to meet her soon. My love to you…. C
September 9th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hello, you cannot post a new entry without including pictures of baby Josie!