out on the town

noah and i had our first big outing together today. i have been scared to venture out without ryan for a number of reasons, but today was our day! cece called this morning to see if we wanted to go to lunch with her and papa g (ryan worked all day). we started getting ready about 10:30 for our 12:00 meeting, and still ended up being about 15 minutes late. it's just hard to plan with a baby-he ended up eating for 45 minutes! and if there's one thing i've learned, you don't take milk away from a hungry baby! let him eat when he's ready or regret it majorly later!! anyway, we had a wonderful lunch and even got to enjoy the company of roxie! noah stayed awake most of the meal-just looking around at who knows what. he's so funny because while he looks around a lot, he's not very good at focusing on things-like people...you can try to get into his line of sight, but he still doesn't seem to be looking at you. i know, it's a baby thing! (i will say, though, since i know he loves his mamma best ;) that he looks at me a lot, especially when he's eating-my face is just the right distance away then, so he can focus easily, i think!) now that we have ventured out, i feel more comfortable doing it more often...especially now that ryan is back to work full time. i also finally started pumping today (thanks again for your help, jamie! we are ever so grateful), so i feel like that will help us as we get out of the house. i have been a little fearful because it's hard to nurse when you are out and about...i'm not huge on the whole sitting in the car deal, and most places (stores, restaurants, etc) are just not nursing friendly. while i'm not nearly as shy as i used to be about whipping the old milker out, i don't want to make other people uncomfortable. so, now we can take bottles with us and it's not nearly such a big deal. i'm pretty excited about this!