A big day!

Yesterday was a big day for us. It was my first day back to classes so I woke up with great anxiety. Grace and I have started a little ritual where when she gets up at 6/7 in the morning for breakfast we fall asleep with her on my chest as I sit on the couch after she's done eating. It's my favorite part of the day! Anyhow we were having a great morning and then it got even better. Mark got home from some appointments to find this on our porch:
If you haven't heard of Graeter's, you are missing out! It is the best ice cream in the world, and I am not exaggerating. I fell in love with it when I was working for AXiD and living in Lexington, KY. I lived and worked with my dear friend, Betsie Keeler Zeedyk there and I think you would have called us regulars at Graeter's. Betsie, in all of her wonderfulness sent me this package containing six delicious pints of Graeter's ice cream! Who knew they could ship ice cream?!?! Thanks Bets!

After a great morning it was time for me to leave. Mark's mom had come up to help out with Grace and to give me some time to focus on school work. I left the three of them at home and headed off to my Psych class. They had lots of fun while I was gone. Grace took a bottle I had prepared before I left and then had some great tummy time which Grandma taped so I could see it.

Unfortunately, class took a bit more out of me than I thought it would. I came home feeling exhausted and was supposed to go back for my evening Stats class. I just couldn't do it though--too much in one day. We ate dinner, I fed Grace and then took a glorious nap (yes, when you have a newborn, you can nap at 7:00 at night!). After the nap I felt much better and we decided to make the day even more exciting by giving Grace her first bath. Her ubmilical cord fell off last Friday morning and we got the okay from the doctor to do real baths at our appointment on Monday. So, out came the tub. She screamed for some time until Mark figured out that if he let her suck on his thumb bath time would be much more pleasant.

It was quite a day and Grace was very alert after her bath. She and I stayed up chatting for a few hours after everyone else had gone to bed. You may laugh at the thought of us chatting but she actually is starting to respond a bit more and is focusing on our faces as we talk to her so I really do feel like we were chatting--hopefully the first of many late night mother/daughter chats :)