My mom and Dave came for a visit last weekend. They got in on Thursday, Andrew picked them up from the airport and brought them back here to meet Lily. Lily just loved being cuddled by my mom. In fact, whenever my mom held her, she fell right asleep and wouldn't let my mom put her down or she would wake up. And Dave did a great job of being in charge of bouncing Lily in the bouncy chair. ;-) We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant in Glendale, Don Cuco's for dinner. It was very tasty as usual and I got to have my first real margarita since getting pregnant with Lily. YUM!
On Friday, my mom, Ella and I made the dough for our gingerbread men and cut-out cookies from the store bought Pilsbury sugar cookie dough. The Pilsbury dough was really good and a lot less work and cleanup than making them from scratch. We cut-out the gingerbread men on Saturday and frosted the other cookies. Ella did really well. I measured out the ingredients and she helped me put them in the bowl. She helped stir and she cut-out the cookies as well. But her favorite part was eating the mini m&m's I bought for the eyes and buttons on the cookies.
Saturday afternoon, we walked up to Kenneth Village. They were having a sidewalk art fair in the afternoon. We looked at the art (paintings, ceramics, knitted things) and then sat at the coffee shop and had a snack. It's so great that Ella is getting a little older now. She gets out of the stroller and sits by us at the table to eat her snack. She wanders a little bit, but she knows to stay right by us. This is much improved over 6 months ago when she would want to get out of the stroller and just run everywhere.
Sunday, we spent much of the day lounging around the house. Andrew and I went to Greg and Kelly Harvey's baby shower in the evening. Nana and Papi babysat Ella. Nana had a great time playing with Ella in her room and Ella even gave her several hugs! Ella was a little nervous we weren't going to come home though and stayed awake until we walked in the door. ;-) The shower was very nice. It was at the restaurant in Barney's department store in Beverly Hills. We had a great meal and it was fun to bring Lily to meet the Harvey's baby girl, Grayson as well as our friends Robin & Terry's little boy, Julian. Julian is just 11 days older than Lily and Grayson was born on November 2nd. It's fun that Lily already has a built-in playgroup!
It was sad to see my mom and Dave go, but we'll see them again in Racine over the holidays along with the rest of the Comande/Isaacson clans!
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