Yesterday, we played hooky from work and decided to start our Christmas shopping. Yes, everything this year is a bit late. We went to Hobby Lobby, Target, Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, the Mall and a few other places I'm sure. While I had taken the baby out several times shopping already, this was Daddy's first adventure and he just ate it all up. No sooner did we drive into the parking lot of our first stop did he say, "Well, ok you get the diaper bag and I'll carry the baby!" I'm not even sure we got into the store before the "Oh what a beautiful, baby" comments started. People were stopping, looking, pointing, trying to touch - it was crazy - every said how beautiful she was, how small she was, how big and bright her eyes were, how alert she was. We had the best baby in all of the mall. We got a lot accomplished, pretty much because we knew this day and the next would be it for shopping. Baby had her first breastfeeding in public experience - or BOIP as Daddy now calls it!
On Saturday, we made our annual pilgrimage to Old Towne Spring, where once again I was not allowed to hold the baby except to pose for this picture and one other one! This was a special moment, though. This is the store where we bought our wedding cake topper and another figurine of a man and a woman that we have out in our living room. They are from the Circle of Love collection. Every year since our wedding we've gone back and stared longily at the figurines of a man and a woman ... plus a baby - and finally we were able to buy one of those. Actually the one we chose was just a baby, with a circle around it and a heart as part of that circle, but it looks wonderful right beside our two figurines. Yes, I cried!
Since Daddy had carried the baby all day and put her in and out of her car seat it had been a while since I was able to really interact with her. Once we got home and I went to pick her up she smiled so incredibly big. I'm calling this her first social smile. I know she had been doing it before, but this is the first one that I can really remember so in the books it goes.
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