Post-Good Times

Great past few days! Busy and activity- and fun-filled! Tiring, but worth it. Highlights include:

• T-giving at our aunt's house. Much eating and movie watching. Baby wore her pink princess outfit and took to everyone immediately, especially Uncle J. who is famously wonderful w/animals and children
• Me and baby seeing the movie Happy Feet, buying a little fiber-optic X-mas tree, doing a little shopping, visiting PetSmart to see the animals
• Baby and DH going to AutoRama and me enjoying my alone time at the house!
  
• Me and baby going to storytime and spending a few hours at the library, going to the zoo where we had an excellent time and she ended up soaking wet from the water park
• Me and R. having an excellent time going to see El Vez at the Continental and me seeing a lot of old friends as I always do when I go there
  
• Me and baby going to see my mom and grandfather, then going to Chuck E. Cheese where we had a stupendous time. Visiting M.'s house and his wild rottweiler puppy Lucy who loves to jump on us
• Enjoying the WWE PPV Survivor Series last night w/DH, M. and M at the sports bar. I have to say, it was a good one!
  

One of the best things, however, was when baby and I were leaving the Chuck. Those of you who have been there know that when you arrive, they stamp your hand and your child's hand with matching invisible stamps seen under a black light so that they can verify the same child is leaving with the adult they arrived with, as a safety precaution. When we were finally leaving after about 3 hours of being there, the guy at the door checked baby's hand and my hand, but couldn't see the stamp, or something. So he said to baby, "Is this your mom?" I held my breath. Baby nodded yes--and my heart swelled!!! Little things like that... it's amazing, how it makes all the b.s. and pain and suffering worthwhile. I don't understand how that is so powerful, but I'll attribute it to simply being a gift from God.