A 1st

On Saturday, our dear friends Amy and Nate got married. It was a fabulous wedding with many beautiful and thoughtful love-filled touches. The food was excellent and we had a great time with the other guests.

We brought Loic for the ceremony. He woke up right as it began. He was instantly riveted and didn't cry as he often does when he is transitioning from sleep to wakefulness. He silently watched most of the ceremony in my arms and then his dad's.

It was great to have him for the first 3 hours of the event. He hung out with friends, he drank some milk, slept a bit, observed the goings on, and generally enjoyed the party. However, that was not the plan...We were supposed to bring him down to my mom's house for bedtime. Finally, at 9:15, we slipped out of the venue and drove him to Montlake. As we left the parking spot, we questioned our decision to drop him off with Grandma. He was doing so well after all. Plus, I was feeling sick and didn't think I'd want to stay long. But, my mom had put aside her evening to care for Loic and I'm sure she was excited about it, plus we were curious to see how he'd do and how we'd do, so we continued our drive.

Loic was pretty sleepy by the time we got to Grandma's so the transfer was pretty fast. We were keen to get back to the wedding and the DJ who was going to be spinning Funk 45's. We got in the car and Rafer said, "That was hard." It was hard to take him off my breast and hand him over, hoping that he wouldn't protest (he didn't). But there were no tears so I felt fine, better than I'd feared.

And, it was great to get back to Pravda, the party was in full swing. We quickly got into the mood and had a great time dancing with friends. But, we, or rather Rafer, did have a moment of weakness...at one point I asked him, "So, no call from mom?" He took his i-phone out of his pocket, indeed, no call, so instead, he scrolled through the most recent pictures of Loic. "What a cutie," we said, laughing a bit at our new parent behavior.

Loic had a fine time with Grandma. He mostly slept, cried a bit and gulped his breastmilk bottles. They did well.