Happy Birthday Grandma Diane!

Mya with her Grandma Diane and her Granny Una! Happy Birthday Grandma!

We celebrated Diane's 60th birthday last night at Buca Di Beppo. We had great food, great company, and of course.... the Pope! No, not the Pope Pope, just a fake Pope as our centerpiece... perfect for a table of 15 non-catholics! I don't think Diane was as "surprised" as we had hoped but the evening went well anyway!

The Pope!

All the worrying I had done concerning Mya was completely unnecessary! She did very well...even stayed up an hour past her bedtime. She even let Grandma Diane hold her without having a screaming fit! See Grandma...she does love you! :)

I do have to mention the experience I had feeding Mya at the restaurant. Now that I have my own baby, I realize how nonaccomodating places are for mommies and babies! I am now a true believer that EVERY public facility should be required to have a breastfeeding lounge! Where does one go when their baby is starving and on the verge of a meltdown? You basically have 3 options:

1. Whip it out in public and feed the baby.... this may gross some people out!

2. Go to the car.... this doesn't work so well in winter in Chicago!

3. Go into the public bathroom, create a nest on the toilet seat, and sit and feed.... this is REALLY gross!

Lucky for me someone had already ever so kindly taken a chair into the handicapped stall and left it in there. Looks like someone else had the same problem as I was having! So, I sat and fed Mya. You don't even want to know what people do when they THINK they are alone in the bathroom! (Sorry!) Figures it happens when I am in there feeding my baby and have no way of escaping. It was quite the experience!

Anyway, the little party animal was fast asleep as soon as the engine of our car started around 7:30! She slept all of the way home, got her into her jammies, fed her a quick dinner, and she was back to sleep by 8:45. Mya (and Mommy!) had her first "full" night sleep! Daddy put her pacifier back into her mouth around 4:30 (3x.... she did some babbling mixed with crying for a bit) and she was back to sleep until 6:30! Woo Hoo! She ate at 6:30, back to bed until 7:30, joined Mommy and Daddy in the big bed and slept again until 8:30! This girl knows how to enjoy her Sunday mornings!

Here Mya and Quentin are again being TOO cute! They instantly reach for eachother! Quentin kept trying to take out Mya's pacifier!