Weekend Festivities

This was a busy weekend for us! On Friday night we went to Luanne and Dave's house and had a wonderful meal and half watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Hayden wasn't really in a sleeping mood so we let her stay up and "eat" with us. She actually did pretty well licking food. She didn't eat anything, but she gnawed and licked in ways that made me think that progress will be made sooner or later.

Then, on Saturday we went down to Somers, CT where I grew up to visit my "other family" from childhood. You know, the house where you're always at as a kid when you're not at home? My oldest friend, Jaime, was there with her husband and beautiful new son (well, six months...new-ish). It was just so surreal almost to be in the same living room together so many years later as parents with "big kid" lives now. There's something about old friends that is just so comfortable, even though I've only seen Jaime twice in almost 20 years, it didn't feel like time had passed. Well, I guess that's not really true, since so much has happened and changed in both of our lives, but we fell back into an easy friendship in a way that felt right.

On Saturday night we stayed with Dad and Bonnie and then on Sunday we went to Caroline's first birthday party (Brian's goddaughter). Ben and Michelle have two labs, Jaime and Dom have two Boarder Collie mixes and Dad and Bonnie have two little white fluffy pups. So, this was the weekend of dogs for Hayden. The verdict:

A bit scared of the boarder collies, but I think that was just because she was playing her usual game of "crawl into another room and then turn around and laugh when mommy comes in after me" only to crawl into another room, turn around and see a big doggie face in hers. She warmed up to them a bit, but only from across the room.

Not loving the fluffy white yippers all that much right now either, because she was being changed on the floor and one ran over to her to say "hi". She's okay with them as long as she's taller, but she doesn't like the surprise factor that comes with the little ones.

The labs? Loved them. Almost too much for my comfort level though. Her way of saying "hi" to Ghengis involved putting her hand in his mouth and trying to grab his tongue. This I did not expect. Apparently Ghengis is used to it from life with two babies, but still, we spent a lot of time working on "gentle", which finally amounted to her feeding cake to the dogs with a fork.

The good news? She can use a fork. The bad news? Apparently, it's little more than a doggie toy right now.