friday eve

My mother in law arrived this morning and I don't think that Tristan has let her have a minute of peace! He loves her being here. Ellie has decided to put her mind to trying to crawl; she just started scooting on her belly today. It's so cute! She'll see something and kind of do this arch/bob thing with her arms up for a minute before figuring out that she has to put her arms down to pull herself along. It won't be long now...

The dentist this morning wasn't all that great. Two small holes (I knew about one, but hadn't spotted the other) and my first ever cavity. Ugh. In again next week to get all of that taken care of.

We had dinner at the home of a brother Jon knows from the masjid. It was really pretty neat. There were a couple of other Muslim families there, and one non-Muslim neighbor as well. I did meet a really neat mom from Pakistan who is planning on returning to school to get her PhD in third world economics. Hard core! She seemed pretty nice and has a two year old and a four month old. She breastfeeds so I invited her to La Leche League, which she seemed really excited about; she had never heard of it. And there was tons of great food! Tristan had a great time running around with all the kids, especially a sweet little three year old girl. We had to really work to convince him to go at 10 pm, lol. And he insisted on cleaning up the toys they'd been playing with first---"No, mama, take care of this mess!"