Amelia's entourage

Our Family Blog Yesterday Michael went to Brentwood with a real estate agent to look at houses. We had decided it would be too much to bring both kids, so I stayed home. When it came time to make dinner, I had no idea what time Michael would arrive, so I wasn't sure what to do. Mike came home hungry, so we decided to forgo making dinner and instead go to Cattlemen's.

As we were heading out the door, Amelia grabbed her seven favorite stuffed toys of the day: her white and brown bunny hand puppets, her white bunny rattle, two monkeys, a small pink bear and (of course) her pig.

Michael tried to talk her out of bringing so many toys to dinner, but I assured him that most of these toys would remain in the car. When we reached the restaurant Amelia had two bunnies and a monkey in her hands. She asked for the rest of her toys (still sitting in her car seat) and I handed her a second monkey (she prefers her toys to come in pairs). She cried for the rest of her toys, but we managed to make it inside with four of the original seven.

At the table, Amelia quickly forgot about her toys and I stowed them away in the diaper bag. Diana was great and slept all through dinner, until the end when she decided she was hungry and cried and cried.

It was nice to get out, but it was also nice to think about how much money we've been saving by not going out to eat dinner. After all, we still have to save for that house.

I'd better run, as Amelia has pointed out, "I hear baby."

Lisa