WEEKEND!

I've had a long weekend, thanks to the holiday. I've used it well.

R and I had our first official date since Bug was born. It's been almost 20 months since we've been on a date together. If you consider the last few months of pregnancy had me completely off my rocker and unable to discuss anything but BABY BABY BABY OH MY GOSH HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO WORK BABY BABY BABY HOW CAN WE AFFORD THIS, let's just say it's been around two years since we've had a fun time out together sans baby talk.

It was good!

Except for the part where I had the wrong theater in mind, so we go up to the box office to purchase our tickets and the lady says, "It's not showing until 8:00 tonight, though!" Well, damn. I thought it was at 1:00. We got home and I found out it was the theater that is across the highway from the theater we went to.

Thankfully, our babysitter was kind and understanding and insisted on coming over the next day so we could finally go see Star Trek. We were willing to skip the movie part, since we did get lunch out alone (in a dive of a restaurant, but that's neither here nor there since WE WERE OUT ALONE).

So, we finally saw Star Trek. I greatly enjoyed it. R didn't, but I'll let him give his review in his blog, should he care to share. I still don't understand the water all over the bottom(?) of the Romulan mining ship. Perhaps I enjoyed the movie so much simply because we were AT A MOVIE TOGETHER. Plus, I've never really seen any of the Star Trek television shows, save for a few here and there that my dad watched. I know enough about it due to the crowd I hang out with, so some of the backstories I already knew, not that anything was really required knowledge before seeing the movie in the first place. But anyway.

Yesterday we had a good Fourth, involving BBQ, spending time outside, homemade whipped cream with angel food cake (next time I will remember to add the sugar to the whipping cream - who knew?!), and a kiddo who slept through the neighborhood and city fireworks. We could actually see some of the fireworks from our windows **Edited to add: we watched from the windows since we were already in our PJs heading to bed for the night - can't even stay awake for fireworks displays!**. I can't wait until Bug is old enough to stay up late and go down to the park for the fireworks displays.

And today was fun celebrating a family member's birthday and hanging out by a pool. Bug got soaked and played in a kiddy pool just her size and tested the absorbency of diapers in that pool.

I can't get over how quickly this child grows. Looking at pictures from just two months ago shows the world of difference in her. She's such an easy kid. Last year at this time we have photos of her sitting out on the deck in an inflatable pool and she couldn't crawl, was only sitting up for two months or so. Two months ago, she was still stumbling when she walked. Now she runs past us all.

And now I need to head to bed because I was eaten alive by mosquitoes this evening, and had to take some Benadryl to fight off the softball-sized welts that always come when I'm bitten.