I Guess It Needed to be Cleaned Anyway...

Here's a beautiful park that's right across from our church. I've always wanted to go here and take pictures since I first laid eyes on it, and yesterday, we did!

Brad and December on the bridge

December standing by some of the pretty flowers. In the background, you can see our church.

Ignore December and I -- she was trying to wrench herself out of my arms, and I was trying desparately to hold onto her. I just wanted to show you the pretty gazebo.

December is tuckered out after a full morning of church and pictures in the park.

Brad and I went out on a date on Friday. It was fun! I like going on dates with Brad...he's very gentlemanly. We went to the Spinnaker, a nice restaurant in the Hilton hotel. We had gotten a $50 gift certificate there for ourselves for $25 (a birthday present for Brad) -- AND it came with a free room overnight at the Hilton! Woohoo! There is some well-known chef at the Spinnaker right now, and his specialty is seafood, so we got seafood. I thought it was great! It was a fancy restaurant, and I enjoyed wearing a dress and pretending we were all high society, hehee. The Hilton room was beautiful, with a king size bed, overstuffed chair, shiny wooden desk, and even a small, padded bench that we had no idea what to do with (Brad's best guess was that it's what you sit on when you want to put on your shoes). Then we really showed our high-society status by flopping on the bed, turning on the cable tv (yay for cable!), and watching America's Funniest Home Videos. However, we didn't spend the night there, because Mom and Dad were watching a sick December. She had a fever, so we took her back home so she could sleep in her own bed. I don't know why she had a fever, though...my best guess is that she's teething her eye teeth, which I guess are the WORST ones to teethe.

Motherhood is not the cleanest job. I discovered this in a whole new way last night, driving home from church. I was sitting in the back seat with December, and I had given her two bites of a brownie, which she surprisingly didn't really want to eat. That is strange because she ALWAYS loves chocolate! As I was licking some chocolate off her fingers so that she wouldn't get her car seat all dirty, she gave one little cough...and then she threw up. AHHHHHHH! (that was my first reaction) She threw up all over me, my clothes, herself, her clothes, her carseat, seatbelts -- you name it, it was grossified. Then she started to bawl. Those last 15-20 minutes home were the longest ones in my life so far. Baby wipes out of the diaper bag don't work the greatest in that situation, but they helped until we got home. There wasn't a whole lot any of us could do until we got home! Then December got taken out and swiftly dumped into the bathtub. After that, there was a major, full-scale cleaning operation in the car. Everything is all better now! Brad and I aren't sure why December threw up, either. Maybe it's also teething-related??

Anyway, some days in motherhood are cleaner than others.