If at first you don’t succeed…

Well, I haven’t posted in a while because there hasn’t been much to write about.  Leighton and I are settling into a little schedule and trying to figure out how to venture out into the world by ourselves.  I am trying to figure out how to handle a hungry monster that wakes up in public and needs to be breastfed when I am by myself.  I can’t say that I have anything down to a fine science yet, but every trip out is getting more comfortable.  For example, the first time I went to the grocery store by myself I pushed Leighton into the store in her stroller and when I went to get a basket thought… crap, how am I supposed to do this?  So I just pushed Leighton around in the stroller and stacked the heavy groceries in the bottom basket of the stroller and put the lighter ones on/around her… wish I had a picture, but I felt bad and like I was being judged in the store so I purchased my things and fled.  On my second trip to the store I carried her in her car seat, got a basket and just stared at it trying to figure out what to do now.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to put her seat on the front of the basket so I just put Leighton and the car seat into the basket itself… BUT it filled the entire thing minus a few awkward open spaces.  Once again I found myself stacking groceries in, around and on top of my child… needless to say, the third time was a charm, I figured it out… I brought Jon!  It made shopping a lot easier!!!  So, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again… or just bring the baby daddy along!

This is a week late but LC turned a month old the other day… this was me trying to take a picture of her by myself… MAJOR FAIL!

So I got smart and waited for Jon to come home and we tried again… SUCCESS!

Until Later…