That's right...Gretchen and I had our first date night on Friday and we let Dave tag along.

...Just kidding!  David and I had a date and loved the company of our beautiful baby Gretchen.  What an eventful/entertaining night!  It made me love being a mom even more.

So on the 4th of July we had taken Gretchen out to Red Robin and she slept like a champ the whole time (she is a big fan of noise - especially large crowds, excessively loud rap music, and the vacuum cleaner) so we figured we could reenact that experience.  Just to be sure I was going to tank her up for a long nap so I fed her twice before we left.  We got into the car and she fell right asleep.  As we pulled up to The Oyster Bar on Chuckanut Drive (which the food was mediocre and ridiculously overpriced) she started crying.  I immediately told Dave to keep driving since we had called and told them we would be late due to traffic.  So Dave drives for 5 more minutes and she thankfully fell back asleep, but right as we parked for the second time, she started crying again.

Dinner went alright.  Dave and I were both a little stressed because she woke up and was fussy and when we made reservations they told us that generally there is an age requirement of 9 because they don't want crazy loud kids ruining everyone else's experience, but they generally don't care if the kids are under 6 months.  I fed her again at the restaurant to calm her down a bit and then we laid her on the booth seat between us with her Longhorn Bull Wubbanub so we could eat and be gone.


After dinner we decided to head up to Bellingham to get ice cream.  It was time to feed Gretchen again so I nursed her in the car.  I put my feet up on the windshield so it was easier to support her body.  As I was nursing her, this 70ish year old man walked by and didn't see what I was doing.  He pretended to tickle my feet through the windshield and then walked over to my door to say something to me.  As he looked in the window he saw I was nursing a baby and was very shocked and embarrassed.  He quickly turned around and immediately smacked his head into the awning of the restaurant.  It was hilarious, but we did feel a little bad for him because it looked painful.

On our way to get ice cream, I noticed that Gretchen's car seat was buckled wrong so I had Dave pull over so I could fix it.  As I was fixing it I noticed how full her diaper was and said we should just change her now before she fell asleep.  As I picked her up, I noticed that I had poop all over my hand!  She had blown out her diaper.  Dave gets out to help me change her so I could clean the cars seat.  That is when we noticed we only had 2 wipes left!  Oh no.  So Dave uses the wipes to clean Gretchen and I luckilly found some antibacterial wipes in my back seat that I used to sanitize everything.  As Dave was changing her, she starts to pee all over herself.  It ran down down her body and even got into her hair.  Both of us were cracking up.  After about 20 minutes we were back on the road and Baby G was fast asleep.

Finally, made it to Mallards for icecream.  SOOOOO DELICIOUS!  I got the Cookies and Sour Cream.


Saturday we went to the Arligton Fly-In.  Boy was it hot.  We were both so hot that instead of walking all the way to the runway for the show we found a plane and made camp under the wing for some shade.

She slept most of the the airshow.

We all know what this face means...

Gretty started to get fussy after a few hours so we packed up and left.  She was crying in the stroller so Dave strolled her on the bumpy grass instead and she fell asleep in seconds.

Oh and the best part of my weekend is that my babe started making this face on Friday.  Love her mucho!