silly little boy...

Well, it has been a very full few days since I last posted. What all have we done? We went to Norman on Friday to visit my friend Lisa who just had a baby girl (Reese Lauren). She is adorable. Can I just say that after carrying John Mark around in his car seat all over the hospital I was SORE- literally SORE the next day. I felt like I had done a serious arm workout the day before. Come to think of it, I guess I had. You try carrying around a 12 pound baby in an already heavy car seat and see if YOU don't get tired!

Saturday my parents came to visit us. We went shopping at Kohl's and had a fun time. I got to buy my first non-maternity clothes and that felt WONDERFUL. I am by no means where I was pre-baby, but I'm getting there... Saturday night we gave John Mark a bath in his baby bathtub. He hated it. He screamed the whole time- until I washed his hair. I don't know if he liked that, or if he just realized that screaming wasn't changing anything... either way, once he settled down, he was much easier to deal with! :)

And now the most exciting story from the past few days... we decided to take John Mark to church on Sunday. It was promotion Sunday, and Micah and I are teaching a class of sophomores. We wanted to be there to welcome them. So I got up at 7 on Sunday to get me and the baby ready to go by 8:45. Everything was going so smoothly and I was so excited. We loaded up and even made it to church a little early. John Mark looked so cute in his little polo shirt that I put on him. (I didn't get pictures because of what happened next...) So he is being the perfect baby, sleeping soundly in his car seat- sleeping through the crazy music blaring from the speakers and kids screaming and everything else that goes on in the student ministry on a Sunday morning. Then I notice he's making his poop face. No big deal- I thought I'd run to the preschool area and change him between small group and church... then I moved his leg and saw poop on it... and in a HUGE puddle in his car seat. YEP- first major blow out... so I pick up the car seat and walk to the PS area and start cleaning him up. I quickly realized that I had HIM clean, but nowhere to put him since the car seat was nasty. So I called Micah to come hold him while I clean up the seat. Anyway, 30 minutes- and most of small group- later, we had everything acceptably clean. And I managed to go through the whole ordeal without getting anything gross on me. :)

We went to the mall with Aunt Tiffy on Monday, and yesterday Aunt Kim came to visit us. We got groceries at Target. This picture is from this morning. I was changing his diaper and he just fell sound asleep. Where is he right now? In that exact same spot... hey, I'm not crazy enough to wake a sleeping baby!!