Big day for a little girl

Mabel had a pretty full day yesterday! By the time we got home in the evening (after 11) she was zonked in her car seat--and it seemed a shame to take her out! Here she is, sleeping peacefully. I don't have a picture of the screamfest that occured after this when I took her out and changed her diaper (it really needed to be done, or I would have just let her sleep).

Here she is this morning, all happy again!

Whoa, she's a pretty saucy girl! Look at her sit up almost by herself (I cut my hand out of the shot). She looks so wide awake. Really, this is just a brief feed/change intermission before she goes down for a few more hours. Even as I write this, about 15 minutes later, she's sound asleep in her crib again.

Well, yesterday Mabel and I got up bright and early (ha ha, 9am. Well, it's all relative anyhow) so we could be to our play group at 10:30 (we got there at 11. Don't get so hung up in details, okay? Just let me tell the story!) I joined a moms club this week, aptly named "Moms club of Renton." They have activities for moms and young kiddies; playgroups, book groups, mall walks, lunches, free musuem admittance, etc. All that good stuff to get moms out of their houses. So this was our first play group, and it was a lot of fun. Mabel met a bunch of people her age and I met a bunch of people my age. Mabel was pretty wired from all the excitement (or maybe it was from hearing Jimmy Carter on the Michael Medved show) and when she finally did calm down and go to sleep, she took a record long nap, and I was able to clean the house a bit. When she woke up, I took her running, and she fell asleep again. It was a good thing too, because in the evening we went over to some friends of mine and Bobby's, and we watched Wall-E, and Mabel was buzzing, Buddy! She would not go to sleep, she wanted to stay up with the grown ups (who, in this case, were obviously just larger-sized children playing with their blu-ray toys) and watch the whole movie. I knew we'd all pay for it; she got overtired and then went from huge smiles to crying the whole way home. She fell asleep just in time for me to have to disturb her by waking her up when we got home, but I changed her and fed her and got her into her crib in fairly short order, and this morning she was all smiles again. Amazing how quickly kids are able to get back to sleep. I wish I could get back to sleep so quickly. The only reason I'm up writing this now is because I can't get back to sleep. I'm going to give it the old college try, though. I've got the Successories Rock that Dad gave me; it has "Never Give Up" etched into it, and reading that always inspires me. I may try banging myself over the head with it a couple times too; after all, it's NOT FRAGILE!