Our Weekend

Hello all, stories from our weekend...

1. We have an Olive Garden coupon. And since Miss M has recently realized how much she LOVES noodles we decided to use it - at 5:00 on Valentines Day. Apparently Olive Garden is THE place to take your sweetie on Valentines Day, because there was an hour and a half wait for a table... at 5:30pm... at OLIVE GARDEN! Crazy people. Needless to say we didn't wait. We went and introduced Miss M to Indian food instead. She was a big fan of the chicken tikka masala. Which leads me to my next story...

2. Everyone loves Miss M. The waiter at the Indian restaurant was trying to set her up with the little boy two tables away. And the two hostesses came and sat at the table right next to ours and made faces and talked to her through the first 15 minutes of our meal. Very nice, but a little disconcerting as well. I mean, how do you have a nice meal out with half the staff practically sitting in your lap? The other strange thing about the restaurant - it was pretty dead when we got there (it was early) but as we ate it started to fill up... with stroller after stroller after stroller. There was an 11 month old when we got there (what is it that makes people with a baby think that because YOU have a baby you must want to talk to them?) and by he end of the meal there was four other couples with strollers in the restaurant. Very high stroller to diner ratio.

3. This morning Daddy was leaving for work and was trying to wrangle a kiss out of Miss M. "Smooch, smooch, gimme a kiss honey!" I was holding her while he was doing this, and she turned away from him and planted a big wet one right on my cheek. Daddy was not happy. Mommy sure was though! (and no, daddy didn't get his kiss)

4. Walking in circles. Miss M does not stop moving, she literally walks for two hours straight, then gets all cranky and takes a nap, wakes up, walks for two hours straight, etc. Saturday J and I were sitting on the floor and she was walking back and forth between the two of us, giggling and smiling. Then she decided to change up her game. She would start off towards Daddy, get about half way then do a U-turn, laugh hysterically, and head back to Mommy. She was so proud of herself, it was like she had just figured out how to turn around right at that moment. What a goof.