the wonders of coffee

I have never been a coffee drinker, but have had some the past 3 days (if you can call half coffee, half milk, plus sugar coffee...really it's more like liquid coffee ice cream) and it has been wonderful! For the first time in my life I actually understand the full appeal of it.  Even though we are getting marginally more sleep these days at night, Owen is not napping as long during the day, which means I have not been getting a daytime nap, and hence the coffee!

We had a great weekend.  It started out with a dessert at our friends Joe and Anna's place on Friday - semlor (a traditional Swedish Fat Tuesday dessert), then saturday we had an afternoon play date that morphed into dinner at our friends Lars and Elissa's place.  Owen was the lucky recipient of an awesome sock monkey toque from his friend Tor.  Finally a toque that (almost) fits his head!
Sunday started out with brunch at our friend Annia's place, followed later in the evening (by which I mean 6pm...which feels "late" these days) by Owen's first babysitter experience.  We left him in the capable hands of our friends, Andrew and Kit, and walked 5 blocks away to treat ourselves to a fancy schmancy dinner at a local fancy schmancy restaurant, Heidi's, to celebrate our 5th (legal) wedding anniversary.  Owen did great...he slept the whole time we were gone!
Owen did great being out this weekend.  There were one or two minor meltdowns, but he spent most of the time either asleep in the moby wrap nestled next to one of us, asleep in the warm arms of friends wanting to hold him, or quietly alert just taking it all in.