Apr 8
Well, we did it! We had our first date night, just the two of us, since Martyn was born. Also it was Martyn's first time with the nanny lady. We all did great. She said Martyn was good, and I was relieved because for some reason I had it in my head that he was going to be horrible for her and she was going to say she didn't want to watch him any more and then what would we do for when I go back to work in a week?
I don't know why I thought that...Martyn is totally a good, easy going baby. He has times of fussiness like any baby, but over all he is just so good. I'm just weird I guess.
Eli and I went to Fire on the Mountain for dinner, (best wings in Portland!) then drove over to a friends house near by, and parked our car, then walked down to Mississippi Ave a few blocks away and walked down to Cup and Saucer for some coffee and coffee cake. Then we walked back up to our friends house, where game night was getting ready to commence, and came in the back door and surprised everyone. We didn't stay for soup and games, but just made an appearance, since we had to get back to Beaverton to pick up the baby. Over all, I'd say it was ok. We kind of had a strong discussion/argument on the way to Fire on the Mountain, and were both a lot on edge from Friday night rush hour traffic. After we ate though, we both felt much better and enjoyed each other.
It was hard for me to leave Martyn, but easier than I expected. I felt at peace about who I was leaving him with, and that helped tremendously I think. She was very gracious about the whole thing, and walked us around her house, and introduced us to her wild dogs. I was kind of nervous and just blurted out that she was really short, and then I couldn't get off that subject for a bit and kind of dug deeper...nerd. Oh well, like I said, she was very gracious about it.
When we picked Martyn up, her husband was home so we got to meet him too. They're a very nice couple. I'm glad we found them.
I tweaked my back or something, within the last few days and all day today my upper back has just been really hurting me...almost to the point of paralysis I would say. I can barely get up and down from a sitting position...and moving certain ways just hurts so bad it takes my breath away. It probably doesn't help that my boobs are totally huge, so I have this extra....20lbs maybe, that I have to lug around, ha! (seriously!)
So all day today, I've been kind of hobbling around. We decided that Eli would go to the store with out me. We were going to take the dog to the dog park before we dropped off the baby, but the time kind of got away so we just went for a nice walk in our neighborhood instead. It was a beautiful day today...Nice and sunny and warm all day.
While Eli was at the store, I took a blanket out and laid it on the grass in the back yard and Martyn and I went and laid out for a bit. Not too long though, because it was really bright for one thing, but also my boy is creamy white with red hair...even when he's bigger and doesn't have that little baby sensitive skin, I don't think he'll be able to handle a lot of sun....I think he got his daddy's fair skin...not his mamas olive skin....though I'm pretty white right now too.
I'm looking forward to nice summer days where we can be out in the back yard working on the garden, or playing in the grass with Sheba, or playing at the park behind the house....I'm glad Martyn will be a bit bigger by the time summer is in full swing so he can enjoy it with us. We were talking the other day about taking him to the farmers market with us. I was thinking back on last summer when we would go every Saturday, and I would see all these pregnant ladies, or people with little kids, and little babies in their strollers, or carts or wagons, and feeling excited that I would soon get to do that. I didn't realize Eli was looking forward to that as well.
Now that this day is over, and I feel like I've been building up to it all week...I feel like it's the start of a new chapter in our lives as parents. It's funny how something as simple as leaving your baby with someone for the first time, even for just a few hours, could bring on a feeling such as that.
Now is as good a time as any. I'm still excited for our future. Here we come life!
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