My 22nd Birthday

It has been a wonderful day! This morning I got a haircut and Blake did pretty well :) I fed him and thought he would sleep through the whole thing (a rookie mom mistake- I am learning never to assume this) but he woke up after they washed my hair. For a minute I though I had made a mistake and might just have to come back another time when Rob could watch him for me...but then a lady suggested just nursing him under the hair-cutting cape thing. I asked my stylist if she minded and she didn't at all. (She had just had a baby too so she understood). Besides that it was senior citizens discount day so the place was full of grandma's who were all very supportive :) After that, Blake ate and then fell asleep.

After that some friends put on a little picnic for me at the park. They brought me lunch and then we ate cake. It was really fun, but by the end Blake was ready to go. I cried for a minute walking back to my apartment with a screaming baby...but then I just laughed. We got home and I snuggled with my baby and fed him and then he crashed. I think he is a home-body sometimes. :)

Then we went to visit my friend Alli who just had a baby two weeks before Blake. She is awesome and it's fun to talk to her because we have so much in common right now.

Then Rob got home! As a birthday present from my parents Rob and I enjoyed a delectable dinner from Longhorn Steakhouse. Yum. I had this divine chicken parmesan and then we split a molten lava cake :)

Rob got me an amazing nursing cover (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LGIH1K/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00) for my birthday. I absolutely love it. I can go anywhere now and feel like I can nurse with it. I don't know how Rob did it, but it was seriously the perfect gift. Thank you, honey! 

Ah- well another year come and gone. It has been an amazing, amazing year. I am so blessed. It's funny how even though this birthday was filled with diaper changes and spit up and occasionally feeling tired ...it has been the happiest one yet.

The beginning of a smile :)