Day 95...Happy Easter!

Apr 24

So I've been wanting for a while, to try out this little church over in Bethany, called Bethany Bible church...it's just about 10 min away from our house...maybe 15. Normally I don't like the idea of visiting a new church on a holiday Sunday, especially Easter, but I had been putting it off for two long. So I got Martyn ready (and myself) and we went to church this morning.....our first trip to church, that we were not going with someone we knew.

It was good. The church is really small and there were probably 100 people packed in there. I wasn't sitting in a very good spot, in case I needed to take Martyn out in a hurry, which bothered me, but he was asleep when we got there. He woke up during the singing, but stayed quiet, and the teenage girl behind us kept him entertained for a bit...he was being a big flirt like he usually does.

They sang old hymns....I don't have a problem with that at all...some of those old hymns are really terrific songs, and I grew up singing hymns in church, but these were OLD....the first one was written by John Wesley, ha! When the songs were over, and the pastor came up to start his sermon, Martyn totally filled his pants. I don't think anyone heard, but I still had to get him out of the car seat, and get the diaper bag and squeeze past 4 people to get out to change him. He wasn't fussy at least.

I took him down to this little gathering room they had, and changed him on a bench, and then decided since we were already down there, I may has well nurse him too. So I missed half the message.

I'm not willing to put him in the nursery for several reasons, mainly because I don't know anyone and neither does he...secondly, because he hasn't been vaccinated (yet) and church nursery's could potentially be as germy as a day care so, no thanks. When we came back to the service, he was a perfect baby. He was happy, and mostly quiet, with a few little baby coos which brought a volley of happy sounds from the kids behind me and the family next to us....Martyn was really interested in, and smiling a lot, at both of them.

The lady in front of me and the family who I sat next to, and one other lady, were the only ones who greeted me, or talked to me after the service. Which is really too bad. I'm going to try that church out again next week, just to be off a holiday Sunday, but I don't know if I'll be coming back again.

Nothing wrong with them, I just don't know if they are the church for me or not. We shall see.

Martyn was perfectly content to snuggle me up when we got home, and we watched Toy Story three on netflix....well, I watched it, he fell asleep at the boob. Then we both took a nice nap in the chair afterwards. Martyn started waking up and was kind of fussing around 4:15 or so, which was a good excuse for me to get up and change him, and then get cracking on cleaning up the kitchen, and getting dinner going. I made enchiladas tonight....Eli had texted me too, and said he was really looking forward to enchiladas, so I had to make them...which I had been planning to do. I put Martyn in his new little seat, and set him up on the table in the kitchen so he could see me, turned on some music and went to work. He was very happy to just play with the hanging toys, and watch me. Once in a while I would stop what I was doing and come over and kiss him, and he would smile at me every time! What a good boy, he knows who his mama is.

I managed to time it just right so dinner was ready, when Eli got out of the shower after he got home and played with the boy for a few minutes. It was perfect! I love it when that happens (which isn't a lot).

Martyn started getting kind of fussy around 7:45 or so and it took me a few minutes to figure out what his problem was. I'm all thrown off by the day light and didn't realize it was just about bed time for him. He was turning into a pumpkin, ha! So I put him to bed just in time for Eli and I to go upstairs and watch Amazing Race. Martyn woke up right at the end, and when I went down to help him back to sleep, I found he had rolled over from his side onto his belly and that's probably what woke him up. It kind of startled me. I put him on his back and got him back to sleep, and just a little while ago went and checked him before Eli went to bed, and found he had rolled from his back to his side and was sleeping pretty soundly on his side. He's rolling over!

I haven't seen him do it yet, but after tonight, I know he's not going to be safe on the couch unless he's totally tucked in and can't move at all. That is if he's unattended for a moment. Just laying on the couch with someone sitting with him is fine still.

I can't believe how fast this weekend went by. I survived the first week back to work, and it wasn't even that bad. Here we go for week two.