Day 156...party hardy!

Jun 25

What a fantastic day!

Mom is here, and we woke up earlyish, and took her to the Beaverton Farmers Market. We had decided we would all have breakfast there. While we were looking at what they had, we came across a cart that does pulled pork and bbq pork and biscuits and gravy and things like that. Mom took one look at that and said "I'm having biscuits and gravy, I never get to have anything like that at home anymore!"

It was cute. Eli and I shared a monster sized Mexican omelet which was amazing. Martyn was a happy happy boy in the stroller and it gorgeous out.

Mom had never been to a farmers market, like this one. I had been telling her for a while she would really enjoy it, and she brought her camera along to take pictures to show to Jack when she gets home. It was fun!

Some random lady came up to me at one point, looking at Martyn in the stroller, and said very excitedly, "I'm going to be a grandmother for the firs time in the fall!" I told her congratulations and she was smiling at Martyn. He was very chatty and happy, and just gave her a big flirty smile. She was pretty excited about that, it was kind of funny.

When we got home, we had a little while for some down time before Rachel and Bryan got there. They brought Tucker's high chair for us, and a basket of toys and things left over from Tucker, and put them out in the garage. We figured we'd better try Martyn out in the high chair right away, and quickly found that he LOVED it. He was so happy to be sitting up right, at a higher level, and sitting on his own. What a cutie-pie!

I put him down for a nap before Walt and Mary Jane showed up, hoping that he would take a nice long nap before the party, so he would be friendly and happy and sociable while everyone was here. He only stayed down for about a half hour, but seemed content enough with that. Everyone started showing up, and he started getting passed around.

With the exception of two friends, all of my friends I wanted there came and it was awesome! I missed my other two friends, but it was ok....I'll just have to make sure I spend some more time with them anyway, ha! But what a wonderful way to celebrate my birthday, and Rachel's birthday! And what a beautiful day to celebrate on, it was just lovely! I felt so good at the end of the day. So loved by all my friends and family, and so full because I ate way too much....it was worth it though.

In the evening after everyone left, Eli and Mom and I were sitting down to watch a show on Hulu...Martyn was sitting in the highchair, and playing with this really cool fabric ball Mary Davis (Eli's best friend's mom) had made for him. He was just cracking up! I would roll it to him, and it would bump his nose and roll back to me, then I would hide behind it, and play peekaboo....he was screeching so loud, Eli turns to me and says "babe, I'm trying to watch the show.....!" It was just so funny, I couldn't help myself.