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The Last Few Days

I just realized I haven't posted in two days! I've been so busy enjoying my daughter and watching her struggle to crawl, that I didn't even think about it. That's good though, right? :-) She is SOOOOO close to crawling, and maybe already is considering she can go anywhere pretty quickly, but she doesn't exactly have the one-knee-at-a-time down yet!

Here are some random things from the last time I posted, in no particular order:

-- I've realized that when nursing in public, there are two types of people: those who try hard to avert their eyes, and those who treat it like a peep show. Yesterday, I bared my bosom to a complete stranger, quite by accident. I went to my car to nurse after Olivia kept pulling the blanket off on a bench. When I got to my car, I quickly looked around as I always do, just to make sure there wasn't anyone right there. I didn't see anyone, so I whipped out Lucy (she's the left one) and began feeding Olivia. She (Olivia, not Lucy) was in a busy, playful mood, and kept pulling off to reach for the stereo buttons, and then would try to latch back on, so there was a lot of me holding my breast and trying to get it in her mouth. Suddenly, I felt eyes on me, and I look over to see this guy with his nosed pressed against the glass in the car next to me, just gawking. When he saw me look up, he turned away faster than you can say "boob". We won't be telling James. He doesn't like me nursing where people can see.

-- Tonight we went to a Holiday tasting thing at our local grocery store, Publix. My whole family was in line waiting to get food, and my sister and her boyfriend joined us. Then, the old man behind us starts yelling at them for "butting" and threatened to beat up my sister's boyfriend. What insued was a hilarious (at least to me) exchange of not-so-nice words between my sister's mouthy b/f (the funniest guy EVER) and this old man. His poor wife was so embarrased, she kept telling him to be quiet. Here's what I heard:

OLD MAN (OM): You wouldn't hit an old man!
B/F: Yes I would. You just told me you were going to hit me. I'll hit you back.
OM: (to wife) He thinks he's some kind of hero.
B/F: I wish you were some kind of a hero, but you're not. You need to cut this out before you get into something you don't want to get into.

This old man went on and on and on. He seriously wanted to fight. It was so funny, and I feel horribly guilty for thinking so! Other people were laughing too.

-- Olivia and I are travling to Richmond, VA with my grandma on 12/01 to visit my aunt. She lives on the water and we are so excited! It'll be OLivia's first plane ride. Speaking of which, get this. Hope that won't be me, because I will definitely be nursing my baby when that plane takes off and lands because it helps the pressure in their ears. And I can tell you, Olivia doesn't always like a blanket on her head, but I requested an aisle with 2 seats so I can be against the window and my grandma will be on the other side. I DARE someone to say something to me.

Posted by Hannah at November 14, 2006 09:44 PM