It’s been quite a weekend. Yesterday Mark and I attempted our first outing with Anna. We drove to Jackson…specifically to go to Target and have sushi for lunch. I did my best to time when we left just after a feeding and make sure we had plenty of supplies in the diaper bag. All in all it went pretty well. I think the worst part of it was the heat.
We left just after Anna’s second morning feeding. She’s used to hanging out in her carseat/carrier at home, so I didn’t figure we’d have any problems there. She slept the whole way to Jackson and through most all of our Target trip…By that point we were closing in on the time for her next feeding. So, we finished up at Target and I changed and fed her in the car while Mark ran in Goody’s to get some shirts. Feeding her in the car was no big deal really (I had a receiving blanket over us), but changing her diaper in the car was more challenging than I expected. Of course, it might help if we had a bigger car. After that I got her strapped back into her carseat and off we go to get lunch. The sushi place wasn’t open yet…much to my disappointment. It’s been soooo very long since I had sushi. We ate at Red Robin…I’m not sure how I was convinced that Red Robin was a reasonable substitute. Oh, wait…here’s how I was convinced. We drove down Vann Drive, where lots of the restaurants are lined up. By this time I was so hungry I was having a hard time deciding what I was hungry for. While I’m trying to decide, Anna started screaming. I mean screaming…the backseat was pretty warm, and I think that was a large part of her problem. Mark took the screaming in stride (“babies cry” I think is what he said…like it was no big deal). I, on the other hand, got a bit rattled. If it had been me alone, I would’ve parked in the nearest parking lot and checked on her. Yeah, yeah, I’m sure I need to learn to get over that. I’m just not ready to get over it yet. She just so new, I’m not ready to let her cry it out. Anyway, at this point we had several not-that-fabulous options for lunch (because they were all right there lined up in front of us). Mark suggested Red Robin…me being addled by the baby screaming, I agreed. It’s not my favorite place. Mainly because it’s so loud! It was packed (and very loud, of course) and it was hard to have any sort of conversation because we could barely hear eachother from across the table. Anna, who had quit screaming about the time we pulled in the parking lot to eat, just sat in her carrier and looked around. I was 3/4 of the way done with my lunch before she started fussing. I got her out of the carrier (I just hate to be that woman with the screaming baby) and held her until Mark finished eating. I had a little bit of milk in a bottle (man, I hate that pump!) that I had brought along in case of emergency. I’m just not quite prepared to nurse in public. So I handed her off to Mark who tried to feed her that while I finished eating. It worked out ok. There was lots of screaming on the way back to Martin, but she’d stop abruptly after a few minutes and fall asleep.
We went by to see Anne for a few minutes, then went on to the grocery store. Again, we got 3/4 of the way through the store before she started screaming. Again, I hate to be the woman in the store with the screaming baby. So, we finished up quickly and got to the checkout line where Anna immediately stopped screaming. We got out of there and went home. I was sooooo very exhausted! Of course, it was time to feed again by the time we got home.
I guess it wasn’t so bad for our first time out. It makes me very nervous to try it by myself, but I guess I’ll have to sooner or later.
I’m hoping to get some good father/daughter pictures taken today, but Mark isn’t cooperating with me on that so far. I wish I had some more exciting news, but my brain is just to tired to think of anything exciting that’s happened. This week Anna has a pediatrician appointment tomorrow and then I can officially start driving again on Friday. I’m sooo looking forward to that. I don’t know where I’ll go, but it’ll be nice to have the option!
I went to eat at Fujiyama on a Sunday not too long ago. Asahi is the only one open for lunch on Sundays.
Great Bento Boxes.
She’s adorable.