Long but Fun Day.

Yesterday morning Lizzy, Jay and I all woke up pretty early... Jay had a ton of work to do but took pity on me and Liz and offerred to drive us to the Charleston Mommies Day out in downtown Charleston since my car is *still* in the shop and he had a bid to do downtown anyways. So off we go! He dropped us off at 10am at the pineapple fountain where I met up with Ashley and her 9 month old Emery:

Kay and her 9 month old Abby:

And Shannon and her 11 week old Riley:

We spent alot of time just playing around, chatting and letting the kids crawl/run around. I was proud of Lizzy, she's doing really well with being gentle around babies... she loved helping miss Emery keep her paci in, and they all shared some snacks. :)

After awhile we all walked over to T-Bonz where after much confusion with finding places for all the strollers, high chairs, boosters, etc, we had a nice lunch. A good time was had by all and before long we all said our goodbyes....

Liz and I decided to stay awhile (since daddy was busy over in Mt. P working) so we walked down King Street, browsed some shops for Christmas shopping... I got some ideas for Jay for Christmas, and then she and I walked to the Calhoun park and played around with the leaves, watched some doggies and enjoyed each other's company. About 30 minutes after we got there some CofC kids walked up and started tossing a football, Liz was all eyes... she *loves* watching people throw balls... everytime they'd throw the ball she'd clasp her hands and squeal "Fooball! Fooball!" It was really cute to watch. The kids got a laugh too watching her get so excited, so when they decided to take a break one of the guys walked over to his backpack and pulled out an extra football and brought it over to her so she could play for awhile too! That just made her day, she was glowing as she said "Thank you!!!" So we worked on "catch" (aka... mommy tosses it and it hits her in the tummy, rolls right off her arms and she giggles) LOL And throwing... aka... running at mommy, dropping the ball and then running away as fast as she could. She loved it. We played for nearly an hour back and forth, back and forth... eventually she was looking REALLY sleepy (technically she should have been home napping an hour ago, but we were trying not to rush daddy so we were just pushing through) so we returned the ball... (she tossed it at the kid and he caught it, making her grin from ear to ear as she said thank you again...) Then I spread out a couple of her blankets I brought along (since it was chilly when we went first got there) and we layed down and stared at the sky for awhile, she'd close her eyes and lay there for awhile while I scratched her back and then she'd perk up, run a few laps around the tree we were sitting under and then come back and lay down again. LOL Cutie pie.

Running around the tree:

Sweet smiles for mommy:

Blue eyes... ;)

Daddy finally called around 3 and we met up with him, loaded Liz up and she was out cold before we'd left downtown. LOL She napped for about 20 minutes on the way home and then when *I* was ready to nap after we got home, she was wide awake. *sigh* No such luck. LOL So instead we ran around, paid some bills, picked up dessert for home group and dropped Liz off at my parents (they left for Hawaii for 10 days today so they offered to watch her while we were at small goup, which I appreciated... it's hard to enjoy the group when I'm constantly worried about Liz getting into stuff at other peoples houses, or worrying about her and the group leaders 2 year old getting into it over a toy or something) Anyways... picked up a cherry cheeecake pie (YUM) from Publix and off we went. We didn't leave group until after 10pm and when we went to pick up Liz, she was still wide awake playing with Pawpaw... so after no nap, and staying out later than she has in months... my kiddo went straight to bed when we got home and slept until 8:30 this morning.

So that was our long but fun day. Hopefully Jay won't work to late today so we can do something later on... although it's noon and I admit, I'm still in my PJ's and enjoying not having to be anywhere right now. ;)