little elie's adventures on the town!

miss elie had a very exciting day. first she went to the hearing aid doctor with mama who finally committed to spending the mega bucks to upgrade her hearing. mom figures that if there's a time to hear well, it's definitely now with all those sweet little grunts and coos that eliana makes while feeding! then we decided to take gran to 'nature boy' missoula's hip little cloth diaper and wooden toy spot. it was here in nature boy that we had one of our first big on the town moments. first mama realized that elie smelled a bit sour and decided to finally actually USE the diaper bag and set up shop to change her on the carpet on the store. we were doing fine until the little peanut decided that it is so much more fun to poop and pee while her diaper is off and proceeded to let loose all over her blankey and changing pad and onesie and mama. luckily for me the kind woman who owns the shop seemed quite comfortable with this sort of thing and helped me change her and clean up the mess. note to self and other new mama's...always pack a 'ghetto bag' (as we call them in our family) to put dirty stuff in. dad did an awesome job packing the diaper bag but we forgot to put something in to hold the soiled items. anyway, we cleaned her up and changed her and then, of course, she decided she had to eat. well, i have yet to nurse her on the town and, of course, i was wearing a little dress that i couldn't exactly slide over my shoulder. so i sat in a comfy sort of mock lotus on the floor and stuck little el's head under my dress. she quite liked the 'tent feed' and had a good, fast and furious snack for ten minutes or so.
then she was all amped up, so dad (who had been called on emergency pick up), decided to walk her down the street to scotty's table where we were meeting jody, our doula friend, for lunch. elie was in her "quiet/alert and borderline fussy" state all through lunch. luckily jody is a baby master and was happy to hold her while i wolfed down my lunch (this breast feeding thing makes a girl hungry!) then little el started trying to nurse the wrong woman, so i got to do the tent feed right there in the middle of scotty's! all in all, a successful day of firsts!

then this afternoon (after mom took a much needed two hour nap), elie had her first bath! she was smelling quite sour (actually for someone who seems to be dripping in breast milk all day, she actually still smells sorta sweet!) so we set up her tub and did a little rub down. she didn't mind it so much and now is happy as a clam, all swaddled up and clean. what an adventure!