a date. a cake. and a baby.

mom has her summers open b/c she works in the school system in the county where i grew up. she's not a teacher - she's an audiologist - but gets the holiday perk like teachers do. and so she's able to visit a little more often during the summer. so, she came in town yesterday morning and spent yesterday and today with me and loralai. we had a lot of fun. we got to run errands together - do a little target shopping together - bake a cake together (that maddie ended up eating 1/4 of by sneaking her big 'ole tongue up on the counter - dang lab) - feed the baby together - bathe the baby together - read books to the baby and reminisce. it was lots of fun. it's such a treat to get to have your mom love on your baby - and to see your baby love your mom. so precious. and then, she treated todd and i - to a date! wow. we haven't been on a date in 5 months. living in a town without any family makes all parental duties be left up to us - which they should. but then there's that saying that it takes a village to raise a baby. so yesterday, part of the village made its way here ;) after we put loralai to bed, todd and i went out to eat to water street rest. downtown. it was really a nice time. we weren't gone long but long enough for us to have adult conversation. to stare at each other while talking rather than talking while staring at the baby. what a boring blog i'm writing. anyway - it was a fun couple of days and so i thought i'd share the pics of our time. (too bad i didn't catch a picture of maddie devouring part of the cake).

mom and loralai relaxing. precious.

our first date w/out the babe.

protecting the big brown eyes.

the cake eater.