Babykins and I have successfully made two forays into the great, wide world all by ourselves this week. I felt pretty intimidated the first time, especially when I'd only made it as far as the car before she started squalling and flailing and turning red in the face, pissed off beyond compare that she was locked up in carseat jail yet again. It took some persuasion, but I finally convinced her that she really did want her pacifier and the carseat was of no consequence, and then she was off to la-la land for the next four hours. Aunt Bethany and I did our best to wake her up, even, with gentle rocking and kisses and talking so Bethany could coo over more than a baby lump on a blanket, but the child steadfastly refused to open her eyes.

Traveling with a sleeping baby turns out to be a lot easier than I'd imagined.

We've gotten into a strange baby schedule routine around here that involves staying awake until around 2am and then sleeping in until noon or later. This is actually just a default "time off work" schedule for both of us, but it coincided pretty well with Evie's demands early on. She has since shifted her schedule and sleeps more in the late evening/nighttime hours, so it's at 9am that I'm waking up to feed her and thinking I'm going to flip out if I don't get more sleep. Derrr. Time to go to sleep earlier, and hope that this isn't an evil baby trick and she doesn't change her mind on appropriate sleeping hours as soon as I accomodate her.

Last night was a surprise birthday party for Heather. Evie slept through most of it (shocker) and I did pretty well with a public nursing scenario. The trick is that I'm a total cheater and went into another room to get started nursing and covered up, and then came back out when we were good to go. I'm still not sure how to handle being discreet from start to finish. Boobs plus bras plus babies plus blankets are tricky, tricky things to maneuver without flashing a little something in someone's face. I call for a nationwide acceptance of boobs in public! C'mon already.